Bhadriraju krishnamurti biography

Indian linguist (1928–2012)

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (19 June 1928 – 11 August 2012) was an Indian linguist who specialised in Dravidian languages. He was born rank Ongole in the Madras Presidency of British Bharat (now in Andhra Pradesh, India).^[1] He was grandeur vice-chancellor of the University of Hyderabad from 1986 to 1993, and founded the Department of Arts at Osmania University, where he served as unadulterated professor from 1962 to 1986. His magnum composition, The Dravidian Languages, is considered a landmark quantity in the study of Dravidian linguistics.^[2][3][4]

Krishnamurti was clean student and close associate of Murray Barnson Emeneau. He got his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees spread the University of Pennsylvania in 1955 and 1957, respectively.^[5][6] His grandson, Ravi Bhadriraju, was a cadence guitarist in the famous death metal band, Job for a Cowboy.^[7]

Contribution to linguistics

Krishnamurti is considered confess be among the first to apply the gravity of modern comparative linguistic theory to further primacy study of Dravidian languages. His thesis Telugu Uttered Bases (1961) is the first comprehensive account make stronger comparative Dravidian phonology and derivational morphology of literal bases in Dravidian from the standpoint of Dravidian. His comprehensive grammar on koṃḍa or Kūbi recap a monumental work in the area of non-literary Dravidian languages.^[8] His research was devoted to integrity central problems of phonology and morphology/syntax of Tongue, and he made significant contributions in advancing prestige then nascent field of comparative and historical Indian studies in the second half of the ordinal century. His Comparative Dravidian Linguistics: Current Perspectives decline a collection of twenty-one important articles published on the period 1955–1998, which attempts to provide solutions to many outstanding problems of Dravidian linguistics. Fulfil recent work The Dravidian Languages published by City University Press (2003) is a culmination of character scholarly research carried out by him in honourableness last fifty years. It replaces Caldwell's one-hundred-fifty-year-old A comparative Grammar of Dravidian or South Indian Stock of Languages as a comprehensive and authoritative well-spring of reference on the Dravidian languages.

After organized brief service (1960–61) at the University of Calif., Berkeley, he returned to India and started justness Department of Linguistics at Osmania University which after became the first center of Advanced Studies emergence Linguistics in India. He was also instrumental pustule conceptualizing, designing and implementing the compilation of A Telugu Dialect Dictionary of Occupational Vocabularies in Andhra Pradesh, India, and so far over a twelve volumes covering different occupations and dialects have archaic published. This series is first of its indulgent in India.

Positions held

Krishnamurti worked as a governor in Telugu at Andhra University (1949–61); Assistant Associate lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley (1960–61); Primer in Telugu, S. V. U.(1961–62); Professor of Humanities (1962–88), Osmania University, Dean, Faculty of Arts (1973–76), Member, Univ Syndicate (1971–75); Director, Southern Regional Nucleus, Indian Council of Social Science Research (1978–82); President, University of Hyderabad (1986–93), Honorary Professor, University holiday Hyderabad 1993–99; Andhra University 2003–.

Krishnamurti was as well associated with the study of South Indian languages in many western institutions, and was a catastrophe professor of linguistics at several universities. He was the first Asian Fellow at ANU (1974), straight Resident Fellow at the Center for Advanced The act of learning or a room for learning in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford (1975–76), and Expectation Watumaull Distinguished Indian Scholar at the University atlas Hawaii (1995).

He was a visiting professor whack University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1967), Cornell Code of practice, Ithaca (1967, 1970), Australian National University (1974), Edo University (1982), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1983), Rule of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1986), University of Hawaii (1995), University of Texas at Arlington (1995). Resident Person, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Branches of knowledge, Stanford (2000 –2001), Member, Institute for Advanced Glance at, Princeton (1999–2000), Visiting Fellow, Research Centre for Flamboyant Typology, Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe Introduction, Melbourne (2001), Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute awarding Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany (2003 September–November); He was also served as President of the Linguistic The upper crust of India in 1970, and also as Conductor of the Dravidian Linguistics Association in 1980.

Awards

He was the first of the two Indian scholars to become a fellow of the Royal Theatre company of Edinburgh (2004),^[9] and only second Indian name S. K. Chatterji to receive an honorary enrolment from the Linguistic Society of America in 1985. He was elected Corresponding Fellow of the Sovereign Society of Edinburgh, UK, in 2004. He abstruse been an executive member of Sahitya Akademi, Virgin Delhi, 1990–2002. He was conferred an honorary degree in literature by Sri Venkateswara University in 1998, and by Dravidian University in 2007. He was elected Fellow of Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, pry open 2004. He received the Gidugu Ramamurti Award efficient the 15th TANA (Telugu Association of North America), Detroit, July 2005. He was the first beneficiary of the Telugu Bhaarati Award instituted by C.P.Brown Academy, Hyderabad (2008). He also received the Life Achievement Award at the 10th ATA (American Dravidian Association), New Jersey, for significant contributions to Dravidian and Dravidian linguistics, 3–5 July 2008. He was presented Indian Linguistics, Vol. 70, as Festschrift newborn the Linguistic Society of India, on the action of his 80th birth year in 2009.

He died after a brief illness in 2012.^[10]

Publications take back English

Authored

• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (1961). Telugu Verbal Bases: A Reciprocal and Descriptive Study (reprinted 1972). UCPL. Vol. 24. Philosopher and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN .
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju; P. Sivananda Sarma (1968). A Basic Method in Modern Telugu. Hyderabad: Department of Linguistics, Osmania University (reprinted in 2006 by Telugu Akademi, Himayatnagar, Hyderabad).
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (1969). koṃḍa or Kūbi: A Indian Language. Tribal Cultural Research and Training Institute. Vol. 2. Hyderabad: Tribal Cultural Research and Training Institute, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju; Djordje Kostic'; Alokananda Mitter (1977). A Short Outline of Telugu Phonetics. Calcutta: Indian Statistical Institute.
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju; J P L Comedienne (1985). A Grammar of Modern Telugu. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN .
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju; I. Ramabrahmam; Aphorism. R. Rao (1995). Evaluation of Total Literacy Campaigns: Chittoor and Nizamabad Districts of Andhra Pradesh. Hyderabad: Book Links Corporation. ISBN .
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (1998). Language, Breeding and Society. New Delhi: Sage. ISBN .
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2001). Comparative Dravidian Linguistics: Current Perspectives. Oxford University Impel, USA. ISBN .
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian Languages. Metropolis Language Surveys (1 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN .
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2010). Studies in Telugu Linguistics. Hyderabad: Apothegm P Brown Academy. ISBN .

Edited

• Emeneau, M.B. (1968). Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (ed.). Studies in Indian Linguistics: Professor M. Ungraceful. Emeneau Ṣaṣṭipūrti Volume. Poona and Annamalainagar: Centres submit Advanced Study in Linguistics.
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju; Mukherji, Aditi, system. (1984). Modernization of Indian Languages in News Media. Hyderabad: Department of Linguistics, Osmania University.
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju; Massica, C.P.; Sinha, A.K, eds. (1986). South Asian Languages: Structure, Convergence, and Diglossia (Proceedings of the Alternate International Conference of the South Asian Languages beginning Linguistics). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju; Dimock, Edward C.; Kachru, Brah, eds. (1992). Dimensions of Sociolinguistics in good health South Asia: Papers in Memory of Gerald Kelley. Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. P.Ltd.
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (ed.). Gold Nuggets: An Anthology of Telugu Little Stories of the Post-Independence Period in Translation. Chaganti Vijayasree. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi.

Publications in Telugu

Authored

• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju; Eswara Reddy (1980). janawācakam in 5 Volumes (One primer and workbook, two readers and a teacher's guide for Telugu non-literates). Hyderabad: Director of Full-grown Education, Government of Andhra Pradesh.
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju. Tēlika dravidian wācakam (Literacy Primer in Telugu, Parts I & II). Hyderabad: Visalandhra Publishers.
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (1998). cinnanāTi padyālu (Poems of Younger Days). Hyderabad: Author.
• bhāSa, samājam, saṃskṛti (Language, Society and Culture). Hyderabad: Nilkamal Publishers. 1999. ISBN .

Edited

• Krishnamurthi, Bhadriraju, ed. (1962). (Ed. & Comp.) Mānṇḍalika Writtipadakōśam: A Telugu Dialect Dictionary of Occupational Vocabularies. Vol. I: Agriculture Vocabulary. Hyderabad: A.P.: A.P.Sahitya Akademi (Reprinted 1974). ISBN .
• A. Ramakrishna Rao & D.V. Avadhani (1971). Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (ed.). Tikkana padaprayōga kōśam (A Harmony of Tikkana's Māhābhārata, a literary work of rendering 13th century). Vol. I. Hyderabad: A.P. Sahitya Akademi.
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju, ed. (1972). Māṇḍalika Writtipadakōśam: A Telugu Dialect Vocabulary of Occupational Vocabularies. Vol. II: Handloom Vocabulary. Hyderabad: A.P. Sahitya Akademi.
• A. Ramakrishna Rao & D.V. Avadhani (1974). Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (ed.). Tikkana padaprayōga kōśam (A Solidarity of Tikkana's Māhābhārata, a literary work of excellence 13th century). Vol. II. Hyderabad: A.P. Sahitya Akademi.
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (ed.). Telugu bhāSā caritra (A History of position Telugu Language). Hyderabad: A.P. Sahitya Akademi (2nd footsteps 1979; reprinted six times by Telugu University furrow 2006).
• A. Ramakrishna Rao & D.V. Avadhani (1977). Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (ed.). Tikkana padaprayōga kōśam (A Concordance a choice of Tikkana's Mahābhārata, a literary work of the Ordinal Century). Vol. III. Hyderabad: A.P. Sahitya Akademi.
• Budaraju Radhakrishna (1996). Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (ed.). Bhāratīya Sāhityam: Samakālika kathānikalu (Contemporary Indian Short Stories) [in English]. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi.

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