The year 2014 marked the end of a contentious 60-year period when Telangana region of Hyderabad state and the Andhra state were united on a linguistic basis into one state, Andhra Pradesh. This unity produced some blending (e.g. films, language, the modified geography of Hyderabad) and a lot of contention (e.g., irrigation, state finances, employment, control of Hyderabad city). By the time the state was partitioned into Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, there was a significant migration of capital, skilled labor, intellectual and political activity from the towns (small and large) of erstwhile Andhra state to the sprawling city of Hyderabad. In the immediate aftermath of this seemingly painless partition, the main imperative that has burst forth in “new” Andhra Pradesh is the construction of a new capital city, Amaravati, which is supposed to fill the gaping hole left by the loss of Hyderabad. While this has attracted some media and scholarly attention, there are many intellectual tasks that need to be defined and taken forward. How do we make sense of the history of this new emergence? How do we understand the new political economy of this state? What are the defining cultural and socio-economic features of this new formation? IRAP intends to take on these tasks in order to explore possible pathways forward and imagine a more inclusive Andhra Pradesh.