At last, after 20 year's delay, we are able to place this book on “Telangana People's Struggle and its Lessons” in the hands of the readers. Our effort has been to give the reader a comprehensive narration of the development of Telangana People's Struggle, and all the relevant details available, in order to point out the most important political lessons that emerge from the experience of this movement. We are conscious that many other details of actions of people, guerrillas and cadre which should have found a place in this book may not be there. It is due to lack of those details with us, as the participants of that great struggle failed to record their experiences, their knowledge of people's reactions and their own feeling during the period or later. Whenever those accounts become available, it will not be difficult to include them and have a fuller and more comprehensive history of the Telangana People's Struggle. In this narrative, there may be many factual discrepancies with regard to minor details but those, too, can be corrected, if the participants or readers point them out. We have avoided narrating the activities and the role of various participants, their positive and negative features, especially of most of the living personnel, for obvious reasons, except when it becomes absolutely essential to pinpoint political generalisations and that, too, in very general terms.

Certain colleagues of ours have pointed out to us that the narrative and the book could have been more vivid and graphic and this book does not fully bear out the rich experience and the heroism of the movement.