PRODUCING A VERY BIG BOOK: THE MAKING OF THE TELUGU ENCYCLOPAEDIA. NO PART OF THIS WORK SHALL BE USED WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR. A. Monish Shanmukh Kasyap. Abstract:- Encyclopaedias in colonial and pre globalised world possessed very high value, as they are the chief providers of knowledge for the masses. Having a collection of encyclopaedia set is a symbol of status as literate and knowledgeable. The study of the paper is to understand how the encyclopaedias emerged, conditions prevalent to emerge and the efforts to compile them. This paper focusses how the encyclopaedias were made and it looks at people who visioned for an encyclopaedia in Telugu. The efforts to compile one big book is the subject of the paper, and their growth in colonial and independent India’s contexts is the main emphasis. Keywords :- Encyclopaedia, Telugu, Telugu Bhasha Samiti, Komarraju Lakshmana Rao, Vignana Sarwaswamu. Introduction:- In the first edition of Andhra Pat...
Sri Sadhana Patrika's, A voter's dispassion Monish, A, S.K. Elections are barely any new concept to India, be it the Buddhist jatakas which tell about Ganarajyas and their elections, or the Rigvedic Sabha and samiti's, where election occurs and a leader is chosen, or of the numerous tribal societies where its leaders were chosen, coming in advance of the time, the Uthiramerur epigraph of Parantaka I of the Chola house proclaims of a self-governance and its voting models in elaborate, voting is never a new thing to India. But the real deal began somewhere in the 1860s when the legislative councils through indirect elections got "nominated" to the governor's legislative councils, corporations, municipalities and district boards. this reached its zenith with the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms of 1918 and the Government of India Act of 1919, which effectively introduced dyarchy, where Indians were elected to provincial legislative councils and imperial legislative...