The authors discuss politics in the sixties in Andhra Pradesh, the eclipse of the Reddy Raj, the landed gentry of Telengana, the 1962 general elections in Andhra Pradesh and the demand for a separate Telengana state. The patterns of regional development, underdevelopment and backwardness and formation of ruling class blocks in rural Andhra Pradesh, are clearly revealed. \n \nAuthor Info: Dagmar and Hugh Gray Bernstorff are sociological researchers who have published in well acclaimed journals of the Cambridge University Press, Curzon Press and Journal of Commonwealth and Political Studies