India announced on Thursday that it planned to create the country's 29th state, after a hunger strike by a regional leader and escalating protests from supporters.
Home Minister P. Chidambaram said the government would begin work to found the separate state of Telangana, which will be carved out of Andhra Pradesh in the southeast.
"The process of forming the state of Telangana will be initiated," Chidambaram told reporters.
Since the partition of British-ruled India in 1947, various separatist and state movements have raged across the vast nation.
Three new states were created in 2000, when Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh were divided to give rise to Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand.
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