Digital Rare Book:
A History of Telugu Literature
By P. Chenchaiah and Raja M. Bhujanga Rao Bahadur
Published by The Association Press, Calcutta - 1928

PREFACE

THIS volume is the first attempt in English, and probably indeed in any language, to present to the reader a concise and continuous history of Telugu literature. It is too much to hope that such a book can escape the limitations and defects incidental to a first effort. Our object has been not only to make a comprehensive inventory of poets and their productions and to supply accurate information, but also so to reconstruct the past as to enable the reader to assess the literary heritage of the Telugu people at its true worth. With this object in view, we have given concise biographical details of the Telugu poets, critical estimates of standard Telugu works, and a general survey of Telugu literary tendencies, in their proper historical setting. The chapter dealing with contemporary literature is of necessity incomplete, but we hope enough has been said to show the promise for the future which the intellectual ferment of the last few decades holds. The views expressed in ' Retrospect and Prospect ' are put forward as our own, though the approval of a large and rapidly growing school of literary men can be claimed for them. For dates and authorship, we have on the whole followed the lead of Mr. Viresalingam, except where later research
demanded departure.

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