HYDERABAD: Defying the prediction of some of the votaries of united Andhra, who were skeptical of ‘two-states theory’ for Telugus, the very bifurcation of the Telugu-speaking land appears to have helped in retaining the ‘classical status’ accorded to the Telugu language.
Telangana government’s act of providing historical evidence to prove that Telugu language has more than 1,000 years of literary history, a prerequisite for any language to get classical status, said to have made the language win the case in Madras High Court.
Telangana government, which submitted an affidavit to the court, saying that the literary history of the language began from the era of “Pampadu” and not from the period of “Nannaya”, appears to have provided substantial evidence to retain classical status to Telugu.
Moments after the quashing of the plea that challenged classical status to Telugu by the Madras High Court Division Bench, Telangana State government on Monday hailed the judgment and talked about the efforts it had made to retain ‘classical status’ tag to Telugu.
Defying the prediction of some of the votaries of united Andhra, who were skeptical of ‘two-states theory’ for Telugus, the very bifurcation of the Telugu-speaking land appears to have helped in retaining the ‘classical status’ accorded to the Telugu language.
According to TS government officials, when the AP government had failed to present a substantial argument to prove that the language has more than 1,000 years of literary history and more than 1,500 years of language history, besides being a non-borrowed language, which are necessary for any language to get classical status, the TS government stepped in and presented substantial evidence to prove the same.
“The then AP government had not tried to counter questions posed by the petitioner for reasons not known. After the emergence of Telangana State, the state government took the initiative and filed a counter affidavit in April, 2015, with the help of Ravindranath, an advocate, based in Chennai. It engaged V T Gopalan, former Additional Solicitor General, to argue in the court,” the TS government stated.
“Director, department of culture, submitted supplementary notes on Pampa and the evidences from archaeological excavations of Kotilingala and Dhulikatta to the advocate Gopalan. The same were presented before the learned judges of the Madras High Court on July 13 during final hearing,” the state government said.