Two years ago to the day, a people's movement lasting more than five decades culminated in the the new state of Telangana being carved out of Andhra Pradesh. The journey since then hasn't been smooth or comfortable. Even as the state turns two, protests about the dam being built in the Medak district mark the occasion.

The video above takes a look back at the history of protests demanding statehood for Telangana. The movement began in 1953, when the Indian Government led by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was creating new states. Despite a call against the merger of the Telangana region into Andhra Pradesh, the government went ahead anyway, assuring the people that their interests would be looked after.

This promise wasn't kept, and this led to the formation of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) in 2001 by K Chandrasekhar, a party formed to achieve statehood for Telangana, which consolidated its power after the then Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy passed away in a helicopter crash.

What followed was a back-and-forth between the Congress-led UPA Government and the Shri Krishna Committee, which concluded that there was no need for a separate state. In a bid to assuage the widespread agitations and protests that brought Andhra Pradesh to a standstill, the UPA Government finally announced plans for bifurcation in July 2013, and the plan came to fruition on June 2, 2014.