ANDHRA PRADESH HISTORY

ANDHRA PRADESH Telugu:  ఆం�ధ్ర� ప్ర�దేశ్,  is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the

country's southeastern coast. It is India's fourth largest state by area and 

fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Hyderabad. Andhra Pradesh lies between 12°41' and 22°N latitude and 77° and 84°40'E longitude, and is borderedby Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Orissa in

the north, the Bay of Bengal in the east, Tamil Nadu to the south and Karnataka to

the west.

IN THE NAME OF ALLAH

MAJOR RIVERS OF ANDHRA PRADESH

Andhra Pradesh has the second-longest coastline of 972 km (604 mi) among the states of India. Two major rivers, the Godavari and the Krishna, run across the state. The small enclave (30 square kilometers (12 sq mi)) of Yanam, a district of Pondicherry, lies in the Godavari delta in the northeast of the state.

LANGUAGE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

The primary official language of Andhra Pradesh is Telugu with Urdu a common secondary official language in some areas.  Other languages often spoken in the state include Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, and Oriya. According to the 2001 census, 10,281 persons in Andhra Pradesh declare English as their first language.

On 1 November 1956, the States Reorganization Act formed Andhra Pradesh by merging Telugu-speaking areas of Hyderabad State with the already existing Andhra State .

LANGUAGES OF ANDHRA PRADESH IN 2001

Telugu (84.77%)   Urdu (8.63%)   Hindi (2.77%)   Tamil (1.13%) Telugu and Urdu are the official languages of the

state, spoken by 83% and 8.63% of the population. Major linguistic minority groups are Hindi(2.77%), and Tamil (1.13%).

Other languages spoken in Andhra Pradesh by less than 1% each are Kannada(0.80%), Marathi (0.74%), and Oriya (0.44%). Languages spoken by less than 0.2% of the population include Malayalam (0.08%),Gujarati (0.06%), Bengali (0.05%), Gorkhali/Nepali (0.03%), Punjabi(0.01%) and Sindhi(0.01%).

The main ethnic group of Andhra Pradesh is the Telugu people, who are primarily Dravidians.

Andhra Pradesh ranks tenth compared to all Indian States in the Human Development Index scores[with a score of 0.416.

"RICE BOWL OF INDIA"

The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh exceeds $100 billion, ranking it third among the states of India It is historically called the "Rice Bowl of India". More than 77% of its crop is rice; Andhra Pradesh produced 17,796,000 tonnes of rice in 2006

ABOUT STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH State language - Telugu

 (తెలు�గు�) State symbol - Poorna

kumbham (పూర్ణ�కుం�భం) State song - Maa Telugu

Thalliki ( మాతెలు�గు� తల్లి�కి మల్లె�పూదండ) by  Sri Sankarambadi Sundaraachari

State animal - Black Buck ( కుం�ష్ణ�జింకుం)

State bird - Indian Roller ( పాలుపిట్ట�)

State tree - Neem (వేప) State sport - Kabaddi

 (చెడ�గు�డ�) State dance -Kuchipudi

 (కుం�చిపూడి) State flower -Water lily ( కుంలు�వపువ్వు$)

MODERN HISTORY See also: Andhra State, Vishalandhra Movement, and Telangana Rebellion In Colonial India, Northern Circars became part of the BritishMadras Presidency

. Eventually this region emerged as the Coastal Andhra region. Later the Nizam rulers of Hyderabad ceded five territories to the British which eventually emerged as Rayalaseemaregion. The Nizams retained control of the interior provinces as theprincely state of Hyderabad, acknowledging British rule in return for local autonomy. However, Komaram Bheem, a tribal leader, started his fight against the erstwhile Asaf Jahi Dynasty for the liberation of Hyderabad State.[Meanwhile, the French occupied Yanam, in the Godavari delta, and (save for periods of British control) would hold it until 1954. India became independent from the United Kingdom in 1947. The Nizam wanted to retain the independence of the Princely Hyderabad State from India, but the people of the region launched a movement to join the Indian Union. The state of Hyderabad was forcibly joined to the Republic of India with Operation Polo in 1948

In an effort to gain an independent state based on the linguistic and protect the interests of the Andhra (Telugu-speaking) people of Madras State, Potti Sreeramulu fasted until death in 1952. After his death, Andhra attained statehood on 1 November 1953, with Kurnool as its capital

On 1 November 1956, the States Reorganization Act merged the Telugu-speaking areas of the former Hyderabad state with the Telugu-speaking areas of the former Madras state to form the state of Vishalandhra, which is named as Andhra Pradesh. The city of Hyderabad, the former capital of the Hyderabad State, was made the capital of the new state.

POPULATION TREND  Census Pop. %

± 1961 35,983,000 — 1971 43,503,000 20.9% 1981 53,550,000 23.1% 1991 66,508,000 24.2% 2001 75,727,000 13.9% 2011 84,655,533 11.8%

RELIGIONS OF ANDHRA PRADESH

The state is home to Hindu saints of all castes. An important figure is Saint Yogi Sri Potuluri Virabrahmendra Swami. He was born in the Vishwabrahmin (goldsmith) caste and had Brahmin and Dalit disciples. Fisherman Raghu was a Shudra saint. Saint Kakkayya was achura (sweeper) Harijan saint.

Percent Hinduism 89.01% Islam 9.16% Christianity 1.7% Jainism 0.05% Sikhism 0.04% Others 0.17%

ANDHRA PRADESH TOORISUM

Belum Caves

Rishikonda beach

Borra Caves (stalagmites

and stalactites)

Araku Valley Cyber Towers at Hyderabad

Coconut fields in East Godavari

Ethipothala Falls

Charminar 

Talakona water fall

Golconda

seven gun bad

THANKS FOR ALL