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ANDHRA PRADESH Andhra Pradesh is a state of energetic and talented people who are proved their efficiency in various fields of life. This state has gave birth to many eminent personalities and shown leadership in many fields. Andhra Pradesh is blessed with a very sincere and hardworking population which gives very significant development for the overall development of the nation. Originally an Aryan race, believed to have migrated to the south of the Vindhyas where they mingled with the non-Aryans. Andhra Pradesh is the first state in India that has been formed on a purely linguistic basis. When India became independent, the Andhras, that is, the Telugu-speaking people (although Urdu is widely spoken in Hyderabad) were distributed in about 21 districts, 9 of them in the Nizam's Dominions and 12 in the Madras Presidency. On the basis of an agitation, on Oct. 1, 1953, 11 districts of the Madras State 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, the Andhra State was enlarged by the addition of nine districts formerly in the Nizam's Dominion. Hyderabad, the former capital of the Nizam, was made the capital of the enlarged Andhra State. In 1995, under pressure from militant wives upset with wasteful drinking habits of their men, the state government imposed a total ban on alcohol, making Andhra Pradesh India's second major dry state. |
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