ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how even though women participated very actively in all the agitations and movements for the formation of the separate state of Telangana, they were marginalized in the state politics when the state emerged as an independent state. Power continued to be in the hands of the men and there are very few women representatives in the assembly. The chapter discusses the reasons for this and also the reasons why women are considered secondary in state politics and are thus overlooked. The chapter also discusses women's role and participation in other movements in the state like the powerful anti-arrack (liquor) movement in the 1990s. However, there were no direct gains which the women got out of these struggles but they did gain indirectly. Women have become aware of their abilities and capacity to change society.
