Author: Sundarayya, Puccalapalli [1913-1985]
Title: Telangana People’s Struggle and its Lessons
Description: [Calcutta], Communist Party of India (M), (1972). boards. 22x14cm, viii,592 pp, Crude binder's blind cloth-backed boards. A tear to one crease of the folding map.. Folding map.. Some rubbing. Good. ¶ Author Secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist). Contents: Hyderabad State: Its Socio-Political Backround; The Peasant Upsurge & Communist Party; Armed Resistance Movement Against Nizam & Razakars; Telangana People's Armed Liberation Struggle Against Nizam - Its Achievements; The Communist Movement in Andhra: Terror Regime (1948 - 51); Entry of Indian Army & Immediately After; Terror Regime & Resistance; The Krishna Forest ( Nallamala) Region; The Godavari Forest Region; Actions of Guerrilla Squads;People's Upsurge in Karimnagar & Other New Areas; Movement in Cities & of the Working Class; Struggle Inside Jails; Women in the Telangana Movement; Brief Sketches of Some of the Squad & Party Leaders Who Laid Down Their Lives After the Entry of the Indian Army; Withdrawal of Telangana Armed Partisan Resistance. Appendices (p. 447-590): 1. Martyrs of the struggle; 2. The conditions of agricultural workers and of the poor peasantry; 3. Present secret organisation: our tasks; 4. Tales of Telengana ... poem ... written by Harindranath Chattopadhyay, at the time of the Telengana armed struggle.

Keywords: Indian Political History, Telangana Hyderabad, Communism Politics, Armed Struggle, Guerrilla Warfare, Communist Party, Princely States, Liberation Movement, Andhra Pradesh, Revolutionary