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Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy (Born 29-08-1863, Died 22-Jan-1940)
was a Telugu writer and one of the earliest modern Telugu linguists and social
visionaries during the British rule. He championed the cause of using a
language comprehensible to the common man (‘Vyavaharika Bhasha’) as opposed to
the scholastic language (‘Grandhika Bhasha’).
Gidugu Ramamurthy was born at
Parvatalapeta, Srikakulam near Vamsadhara River on the border of Orissa, His
father Veeraraju worked as revenue inspector and died when Ramamurthy was just
12 years old. It was a struggle for him to survive. He studied privately and
passed his matriculation, staying in his sister's house and began his life as a
teacher in Gajapati Maharaja School, Parlakimidi for 55 years.
Albeit being a historian as well,
Ramamurthy was unable to read ‘Sasanas’ on stone tablets clearly. To understand
them he studied books that were imported by Vizianagaram Maharaja's son Kumara
Raja. He studied various language scripts and after deciphering the ‘Sasanas’
he wrote books on languages and scripts.
Ramamurthy had studied many languages and comprehended the philosophy of language. He pleaded for lucidity in text books. In his time there was only a poetic approach and never was a prosaic treat. He launched a monthly titled Telugu to drive his point.
Gidugu gave a social base to Telugu
literature and rendered services to the tribals, especially the Savaras, in
Parlakimidi area of Srikakulam agency area and tirelessly worked for the
development of tribal languages. He gave Savara language a script and prepared
lexicons. During his research for Savara language, he had to travel in the
forests resulting in excessive use of quinine due to which he became deaf.
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