From: dsr@balboa.eng.uci.edu (D.Sreenivasa Rao)
Subject: Re: On the birth of Andhra Pradesh (was Re: I HATE TAMILS)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.indian.telugu
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:01:18 GMT

koneru@engin.umich.edu (Koneru V K S Srinivas) writes : 
|In article <2A91AAD9.11489@orion.oac.uci.edu> dsr@balboa.eng.uci.edu (D.Sreenivasa Rao) writes:
|>vprasad@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes : 
|>>partha@mse.cse.ogi.edu (R. Parthasarathy) writes : 
|>> >
|>>> of Potti Sriramulu? He was a Telugu speaking man. He fasted to death
.....
|>>> states. [source: MJ Akbar's "India the Siege Within].
|>>>
|>>       I find it very irritating that people blame Andhra Pradesh for being
|>>       the first linguistic state in the nation and thus "setting a chain
|>>       of linguistic carvings of the country". And Potti Sriramulu is being
|>>       very unfairly criticized. Ever think of the logic behind his demand? 
|>>       Apparently not.
|>
|>Excellent article by Siva Prasad on the birth of Andhra Pradesh.
|>Emotions apart, there is a crying need to examine relevant history
|>as objectivley as possible. It is undeniable that the composite 
|>Madras state was not exactly the beacon of tolerance and justice,
|>atleast as far as Andhras were concerned. 
|> 
|>The following are excerpts from an article I wrote long ago that
|>discussed this issue (in a much wider context, of course) that could
|>perhaps enable some factual analysis :
|>
|>------------------Begin included article-----------
[Long article deleted]

>
> MOST OF THE CHIEF MINISTERS OF MADRAS STATE WERE TELUGUS.
> 
> SRINIVAS KONERU.


    Well, not exactly. Here is a partial chronological listing
    of chief ministers of Madras :

    1920 - 1923 : Subbaryalu Reddy (Justice Party)
    1923 - 1926 : Natesa Mudaliar (I could be wrong here, again Justice 
                                   Party)
    1926 - 1930 : Dr. P. Subbarayan (Justice Party) (See footnote (1))
    1930 - 1935 : B. Munuswami Naidu (Justice Party)
    1936 - 1937 : Maharajah of Bobbili (I forget his name, again of 
                                        Justice Party)
    1937 - 1939 : C. Rajagopalachari (Congress) (see footnote (2))
    1939 - 1946 : Governor's Rule (World war and all that)
    1946 - 1953 : C. Rajagopalachari (I am not sure about the dates 
                                     here; Congress) (see footnote (3))

    1st October 1953 : Andhra was formed.

 
    So you see that Justice Party was in power for a very long time.
    Most of the leadership of Justice Party were Andhras, although
    its main backing was in tamil regions. In the above list, 
    Subbarayalu Reddy and Munuswami Naidu, although of Andhra origin,
    belonged to interior tamilnadu, leaving only the Maharajah of
    Bobbili as the sole CM *from Andhra districts*.   

Notes : (1) Dr. Subbarayan was actually an independent, but was
            backed by Justice Party.
        (2) Rajaji actually announced his retirement from public 
            life in 1935, but Congress leadership preferred him
            over tanguTUru prakASam.
        (3) In fact, Congress did not win majority in these polls.
            UDF, headed by prakASam was the largest party, but did
            not have absolute majority.

--sreenivas--                                             [8/20/92]