Contribution of Telugu Writers to Indian English Literature

Abstract

Telugu writers play a significant role in the making of Indian English Literature. Be it Sarojini Naidu’s lyrical nationalism or Raja Rao’s metaphysical realism or Amulya Malladi’s diasporic tech-novels, they have consistently expanded what English can carry: myth, caste, revolution, and the cadence of Telugu speech. This article tries its best to trace that trajectory across five phases, bringing out that Telugu authors did not merely participate in Indian English Literature; they encouraged define its aesthetic, political, and philosophical core. Their contribution lies in three areas: Firstly, Indigenizing English syntax and metaphor, Secondly bringing South Indian political movements into pan-Indian fiction, and finally refusing the false binary between tradition and modernity.