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Bhadriraju Krishnamurti

Education: BA (Honours) Andhra U (1948), AM, PhD, U of Pennsylvania (1955, 1957), DLitt (Honoris Causa), S.V.U. (1998).

Employment: Lecturer in Telugu, Andhra U (1949-61); Reader in Telugu, S. V. U. (1961-62); Professor of Linguistics (1962-88), Osmania U; Dean, Faculty of Arts (1973-6), Member, Univ Syndicate (71-75); Director, Southern Regional Centre, Indian Council of Social Science Research (1978-82); Vice-Chancellor, U of Hyderabad (1986-93), Honorary Professor, U of Hyderabad 1993-99; Andhra U 2003-.

Distinctions: Visiting Prof: U of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1967), Cornell U, Ithaca (1967, 1970), Australian National U (1974), Tokyo U (1982), U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1983), U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1986), U of Hawaii (1995), U of Texas at Arlington (1995). Resident Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford (1975-76, 2000 –2001), Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1999-2000), Visiting Fellow, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe U, Melbourne (2001), Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute in Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany (2003 September-November); President, Linguistic Society of India (1970), President, Dravidian Linguistics Association (1980); Elected Honorary Member, Linguistic Society of America 1985?, Executive Member; Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 1990-2002, Elected Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK, 2004-; Elected Fellow of Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2004- Received Gidudu Ramamurti award at 15th TANA, Detroit, July, 2005.

Publications: 25 books and over 120 research papers, both in English and Telugu: (Selected): Telugu Verbal Bases: A Comparative and Descriptive Study (Berkeley: U of California Press, 1961), Konda or Kubi: A Dravidian Language (Hyderabad: Govt of AP, 1969), A Grammar of Modern Telugu (with JPL Gwynn) (Delhi: Oxford, 1985), Language, Education and Society (New Delhi: Sage, 1998), Comparative Dravidian Linguistics: Current Perspectives (UK: Oxford, 2001), The Dravidian Languages (UK: Cambridge U Press, 2003). Gold Nuggets: An Anthology of Selected Post-independence Telugu Short Stories in English Translation (ed. with C. Vijayasree).