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The Word Andhra is equally
applicable to the land ,the people ,and the languages, although the
language in course of time developed a name of it's own
-Telugu. The Andhra, originally an Aryan race ,migrated to the south of the
vindhyas where they mixed with the non Aryan stock .Regular history of
Andhra Desa is believed to have begun with 236
BC, the year of Ashoka's Death. During the following centuries
satavahanas, sakas, Ikshvakus, Eastern Chalukyas and kakatiyas have
ruled the Telugu
country.
Andhra Pradesh is a first state in India that has been formed on a
purely lungististic basis. When india became independent
,the Andhras, that is telugu speaking people ,were distributed in about
21 districts-9 of them in Nizam's dominations and 12 in the madras
presidency .On the basis of the agitation of the oct1,1953 11districts
of the madras were put together to form a new Andhra state with kurnool
as capital. On Nov 1,1956 in accordance with the recommendations of the
state Reorganization commission .Andhra state was enlarged by the
addition of 9 districts formerly in the Nizams dominion. Hydarabad the
former capital of nizam,was made the capital of the enlarged Andhra
Pradesh.
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