The Hyderabad's as Deccani or Dakkini culture is evolved on its own as a distinctive culture due to confluence of different people who came from different places to serve under the Golkonda rulers
Festivals
Bonalu, Bathukamma, Diwali, Dassera, Eid-ul-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Milad un Nabi, Christmas and Ugadi are prominent festivals in Telangana. Other festivals of Hindus and Muslims such as Holi, Raksha Bandhan, Eid-ul-Fitr and Milad un Nabi are also celebrated with equal enthusiasm as in rest of India. The Sankranti festival is celebrated at the beginning of harvest season, generally, on January 14 every year. Bathukamma and Bonalu are regional festivals of Telangana.
Literature
BammeraPothana, the poet who composed the classic SriMad Maha Bhagavatamu, a Telugu translation of Sri Bhagavatham, authored by Veda Vyasa in Sanskrit, belongs to Telangana region. Golkonda Nawab Muhammed Quli Qutub Shah had the distinction of being the first Saheb-e-dewan Urdu poet and is credited with introducing a new sensibility into prevailing genres of Persian/Urdu poetry . Other prominent poets of the Telangana region in the early era include Kancherla Gopanna or Bhakta Ramadasu, Gona Budda Reddy, Palkuriki Somanatha, Mallinātha Sūri, Hulukki Bhaskara and in modern era poets include Padma Vibhushan Kaloji Narayana Rao, Sahitya Akademy award recipient Dasarathi Krishnamacharya and Jnanpith award recipient Dr. C. Narayana Reddy, Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao the 9th Prime Minister of India.
Poets from the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh state in India.
- Himajwala
- Ampasayya Naveen
- Ande Sri
- Bulemoni Venkateshwarlu
- C. Narayanareddy
- Chandrabose
- Chekuri Rama Rao
- Dasarathi Krishnamacharya
- Daasaradhi Rangacharyulu
- Desapati Srinivas
- Goreti Venkanna
- Gaddar
- Kaloji Narayana Rao
- Kancherla Gopanna or Bhakta Ramadasu
- Pothana
- Palkuriki Somanna
- Pamulaparthi Sadasiva Rao
- Suddala Hanmanthu
- Suddala Ashok Teja
- Suravaram Pratapareddy
- Seshappa
- Vajjala Shiva Kumar
- Varavara Rao
- Vemulavada Bheemakavi
- Pamulaparthi Sadasiva Rao
- Vattikota AlwarSwamy
- Gona Budda Reddy
- Palkuriki Somanatha
- Hulukki Bhaskara
- Marana
- Kandukuru Rudra Kavi
- Mallinātha Sūri
- Vidya Natha
- Vishweshwara
- Agasthya Kavi
