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INTRODUCTION
tive books and the supply. We likewise appeal to others who are interested in the development of the modern Indian Vernaculars and popular education for assistance. What is wanting in our society is a literature that shall be pure and of good report and such as he who runs may read. First of all our children demand it. Is it not time that ‘a little child shall lead them?’
Whatever our ultimate aims—dreams, if you like, of what shall result fro our efforts—our immediate object is to remove the cloud of prejudice which overhangs some of our educated men, to prove to them for instance that there is an abundant Telugu prose which is not in the pseudo Kay a style, now in vogue among the pandits and favored by the university of Madras and by the S.S.L.C.authorities. This artificial style, we hold, is not genuine Telugu but is the invention of *Telugu for generations exiled from the true Telugu country. There are in all the Manuscripts Libraries hundreds of MSS in Telugu prose written in the ancient Kavya dialect or any attempted imitation of it. The medium was the current popular dialect, even in the earlier school books some of which were printed. This is
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- Of Tanjore, Technology, Madras and Madras Vide A Defense of of Literary Telugu by Mr.J. Ramayya Pantulu page2.
