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From Nizam to Nation: Cultural History and Regional Identity in Telangana

Author(s) D. Kishan
Country India
Abstract This paper examines the intricate relationship between Nizam-era governance, cultural production, and the emergence of a distinct Telangana regional identity across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Drawing on historical records, ethnographic accounts, and political discourse analyses, the study argues that Telangana's bid for separate statehood was not merely a political or economic project but a deeply cultural one — rooted in the reclamation of suppressed folk traditions, linguistic distinctiveness, and subaltern memory that had been obscured during successive phases of Hyderabad State rule, post-integration Andhra Pradesh politics, and nationalist homogenisation. The paper traces how the Deccani composite culture under the Nizams created both opportunities for cultural preservation and hierarchies of exclusion that were later mobilised in resistance movements. Institutions such as Osmania University and vernacular print culture served as incubators of a Telangana consciousness that would crystallise in the 1969 and 2001–2014 agitations. Special attention is given to the symbolic deployment of folk festivals (Bathukamma, Bonalu), tribal narratives, and Deccani Urdu literature as instruments of identity assertion. The paper concludes that contemporary Telangana's cultural policy represents a conscious effort to archive and celebrate what the region's communities regard as historically silenced heritage.
Keywords Telangana, Nizam, regional identity, cultural history, Hyderabad State, folk traditions, statehood movement, Deccani culture, Bathukamma, subaltern memory
Published In Volume 7, Issue 4, April 2026
Published On 2026-04-10
DOI https://doi.org/10.70528/IJLRP.v7.i4.2098
Short DOI https://doi.org/hbwkhv
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