Similarities between art and culture of Haryana and Telangana write in 300 words
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The Culture of Telangana in India has a cultural history of about 5,000 years. The region emerged as the foremost centre of culture in Indian subcontinent during the rule of Kakatiya, the Qutb Shahi and Asaf Jahi dynasties— (also known as the Nizams of Hyderabad). The rulers' patronage and interest for arts and culture transformed Telangana into a unique multi-cultural region where two different cultures coexist together, thus making Telangana the representative of the Deccan Plateau and its heritage with Warangal and Hyderabad being its epicenter. The regions' major cultural events celebrated are "Kakatiya Festival" and Deccan Festival along with religious festivals Bonalu, Bathukamma, Dasara, Ugadi, Sankranthi, Milad un Nabi and Ramadan.[1]
Telangana State has long been a meeting place for diverse languages and cultures. It is known as "South of North and North of South".[2] It is also known for its Ganga-Jamuna Tehzeeb and the capital Hyderabad is known as a miniature India.[3][4]
Telangana, as a geographical and political entity was born on June 2, 2014 as the 29th and the youngest state in
Union of India. However, as an economic, social, cultural and historical entity it has a glorious history of at least two
thousand five hundred years or more. Megalithic stone structures like cairns, cists, dolmens and menhirs found in
several districts of Telangana show that there were human habitations in this part of the country thousands of years
ago. Remnants of iron ore smelting found at many places demonstrate the hoary roots of artisanship and tool making
in Telangana for at least two thousand years. The reference to Asmaka Janapada, part of present Telangana, as one of
the 16 Janapadas in ancient India proves that there existed an advanced stage of society.
One of the first five disciples of the Buddha, Kondanna is a typical name from Telangana and though there is no exact
information about his native place, the earliest known Buddhist township of Kondapur in Medak district is believed
to be after him. The Buddha himself famously acknowledged that it was Kondanna who understood him properly.
The Buddhist sources say that Bavari, a Brahmin from Badanakurti in Karimnagar sent his disciples to all the way
to north India to learn Buddhism and spread the message in this region. Megasthenes, who visited India in the 4th
century BCE, wrote that there were 30 fortified towns of Andhras and a majority of them were in Telangana. In the
historical age, Telangana had given rise to mighty empires and kingdoms like the Satavahanas, Vakatakas, Ikshvakus,
Vishnukundins, Chalukyas, Kakatiyas, Qutb Shahis and Asif Jahis.
The emergence and flourishing of these powerful political formations is in itself a proof of existence of a sturdy
economic, social and cultural structure. Thus Telangana has been a vibrant social entity by the time of the Buddha and
continued to be so for the next two and a half millennia. Endowed with such rich cultural heritage, despite the attempts
by historians and scholars from Andhra region to obfuscate and erase its history, Telangana always retained and fought
for its self respect and self rule. Due to the official efforts to ignore, erase, belittle and look down Telangana history
and turn it into an appendage or a footnote, particularly during 1956-2014, much of Telangana history is either not
properly researched or not recorded even if it was studied. Telangana rose again and secured its political identity now
and is in the process of resurrecting its own glorious past.