POLITICAL PART DESHMUKHS AND DESHPANDES UNDER THE HYDERABAD STATE

The socio-economic life of the people of Hyderabad and especially in Telangana was the unbridled feudal exploitation that persisted till, the beginning of the Telangana armed peasant struggle. The gradual separation of Hyderabad from the Mughal Empire was accomplished before the death of the first Nizam in 1724 A.D.It is pertinent here to take a brief look at the feudal nature of agrarian social relations in Telangana region.The basic feature that dominated the socio-economic life of the people of Hyderabad and especially in Telangana was the unbridled feudal exploitation that persisted till, the beginning of the Telangana armed peasant struggle. Out of the 53,000,000 acres in the whole of Hyderabad state about 30,000,000 acres i.e. about 60 percent were under Governmental land revenue system called Diwani or Khasla area, about 15,000,000 acres i.e. about 30 percent were under the Jagirdari system, and about 10 percent as the Nizam's own direct estate i.e. sarf-e-khas system.