The movement for a separate Andhra was called:

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  1. Visalandhra movement
  2. Telugu Andhra movement
  3. Hamara Andhra  movement
  4. Azad Andhra movement

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Option 1 : Visalandhra movement
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The correct answer is Visalandhra movement.

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  • Vishalandhra Movement
    • The Vishalandhra, Vishal Andhra, or Visalandhra Movement was a movement in post-independence India for a united state for all Telugu speakers, a Greater Andhra.
    • This movement was led by the Communist Party of India under the banner of Andhra Mahasabha with a demand to merge all the Telugu-speaking areas into one state.
    • The movement succeeded and a separate state of Andhra Pradesh was formed by merging Telugu-speaking areas of Hyderabad State (Telangana) with Andhra State on 1 November 1956 as part of the States Reorganisation Act.
    • However, on 2 June 2014, Telangana State was separated back out of Andhra Pradesh and the Vishalandhra experiment came to an end.
    • The residual Andhra Pradesh now has approximately the same borders as the old Andhra State of 1956.

Additional Information

  • Andhra movement
    • The Andhra movement or Andhrodyamam was a campaign for recognition of the Telugu-speaking part of the Madras Presidency as a separate political unit in British India.
    • The Andhra movement leaders alleged that the Telugu people were being suppressed by the Tamils, who dominated politics and government jobs.
    • A similar movement was started by the Telugu people living in the Hyderabad State under Nizam's rule.
    • It achieved success by the formation of the Andhra state in 1953.
  • 1972 Jai Andhra movement
    • Jai Andhra movement is a 1972 political movement in support of the creation of the Andhra state in the light of injustices felt by the people of the Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema Regions.
    • This was after the HC and SC upheld the Mulki rules in existence at the time.
      • This disenfranchised a vast majority of the population of the state from obtaining jobs in their own state capital.
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