Competitive Federalism in Southern India: A Case Study of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Four decades after the birth of the political movement, and four years after a tumultuous struggle, Telangana came into being. India’s youngest state is at the country’s forefront,having come a long way from a 2.7 percent growth rate as part of undivided Andhra Pradesh in 2012-13 to a double digit growth rate of 10.01 percent in 2017. Its sister state, Andhra Pradesh (AP), is not far behind.