Dr. Umer Ali Shah was also a social reformer in his own environs He had reformed the Hindus' customs and manners by dint of his profound knowledge of Sanskrit and the Hindu philosophy which he had mastered.
He knew more them any Hindu scholar of his day. He could recite slokas so fluently and so correctly interpret them in Telugu that the pundits were stunned at his mastery.
All Hindus of Andhra admit that he had surpassed all in every branch of Telugu literature and he came to be regarded as the only eminent poet in modern times in that language.
His writings created a sensation throught Telugu speaking areas both within and outside Andhra State. Indian universities adopted his works in their curricular for degree classes and no library is without his books.
His political career overlapped his literary one and he was so engrossed in both that it is very difficult to think of the one without the other.
During the last decade of his life his literary fame was at its highest. while his political activities continued till his death.
He had to make many trips every year from south to north to be presence in the Legislative Assembly at Delhi from the time when he was elected independently in 1935. From them on he used to repair to the hill-tops of Simla to invoke the muse arid produce his master-pieces in Telugu literature, even in his political travails.
Apart from his literary activities, his political career was also remarkable. He was known as a good politician. Mahatma Gandhi accepted him as a man with sound political ideas when he was in Congress upto 1935.
He worked for the nation unhesitatingly during the Khilafat movement and was held in high esteem by all the national leaders of those times. His assemble speeches contained sound principles of integrity and magnanimity and therefore saw the press of his day.
Besides, he worked for the good of the country delivering lectures everywhere irrespective of religion, cast or creed with a
