: Of concentrated settlement patterns in Telangana #IndiaNEWS #Education Today Hyderabad: This article is in continuation to the last article focusing on the Jai Telangana Movement (1969-70), which

Of concentrated settlement patterns in Telangana #IndiaNEWS #Education Today
Hyderabad: This article is in continuation to the last article focusing on the Jai Telangana Movement (1969-70), which is one of the important topics for the government recruitment examinations.
The colonisation scheme introduced by the Nizam’s government attracted the attention of the coastal farmers and a large number of them migrated from Guntur and Krishna districts. As the land values were very high there, by selling a few and all of their landed property they could acquire substantial estates in Telangana very cheap. The investment in land purchase in Telangana was a profitable venture for the coastal farmers. Given the superior agricultural skills and shrewdness, they were able to make considerable economic progress.
Although the coastal Andhra settlers were drawn from different castes and socio-economic groups, the Kamma cultivators are conspicuous by their overwhelming presence in the irrigated zones of Telangana, whether it is Nizamabad or parts of Khammam, Warangal and Nalgonda districts. An examination of the settlement pattern and geographical spread of this community of farmers suggests that they were primarily concentrated in localities around irrigation projects and black-regur soils.
The intensive cultivation practices adopted by them also necessitated/facilitated concentrated settlement patterns. Thus, in many parts of Telangana, the Kammavaripalle or locations of Kamma households present a unique sight.
The Turupa Kamma/Kapu settlements are referred to by the local people as sights representing a particular type of habitation and lifestyle. The distinct caste configuration of a Kamma settlement is normally away from the main village. Local expressions like Kotturu (new village), Guntur palle, Kaamagudem and Turupu Kammawada indicate the specific character of their habitation and settlement.
The Kamma peasantry do not easily fit into the local caste system in Telangana, for they are numerically insignificant and distinct from the other dominant castes like the Reddys and Velamas.
The presence of an enterprising community in the midst of an economically poor, socially oppressed and less well-to-do groups in backward Telangana villages was also a source of jealousy, hostility and hatred. The hard-working and dynamic migrant farmers displayed their skills and accumulated wealth and immensely prospered in certain parts of Telangana. The spectacular progress made by them was manifested in terms of their higher standards of living in the rural areas.
In their quest for rapid material progress, competition with the other dominant and well-entrenched communities of the locality was inevitable. It was very much evident during the Telangana agitation of the late 1960s.

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