Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy

Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy
Born(1863-08-29)29 August 1863
Parvathalapeta, Srimukhalingam, Srikakulam district
Died22 January 1940(1940-01-22) (aged 76)
Srikakulam
Other namesRao sahib, Kalaprapoorna
Information plate about Gidugu Ramamurthy below the Statue.

Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy (1863-1940) 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’).[1][2][3][4]

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