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100			_aReddy, Gautham _914050
245			_aThe Andhra Sahitya Parishat: Language, nation and empire in colonial South India (1911-15)
260			_b Indian Economic and Social History Review
300			_a56(3), Jul-Sep, 2019: p.283-310.
520			_aThe Andhra Sahitya Parishat or the Telugu Academy as it was also known occupied a definitive role in the formation of a Telugu public and the development of Telugu literary activism in the early twentieth century. This essay revisits the early years of the Andhra Sahitya Parishat (1911–15) in order to examine questions related to the origins of ‘Telugu Classicism’ and its relationship to Indian negotiations with colonial modernity. By reviewing the Parishat’s membership, early interventions in public literary controversies, and its successful attempts to position itself as a nationalist intermediary, this essay produces new insights on the emergence and aspirations of an English-educated Telugu middle class. Ultimately, it demonstrates that Telugu Classicism was an integral dimension of early twentieth-century projects to modernise the Telugu language and constructively contributed to the imagination of Telugu as a ‘national’ as well as ‘classical’ language in an era of British imperialism. - Reproduced.
650			_aAndhra Sahitya Parishat _914051
650			_aLanguage politics _914052
773			_aIndian Economic and Social History Review
906			_aCultural history - India
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