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the proper medium of instructions in all the Educational institutions, the leaders of the movement declared:-
"The Telugu of Nannaya of the 12th century is not different from that of Rao Bahadur Mr.Veeresalingam Pantulu to today. The language of the one is the same as that of the other. The same rules of grammar, rhetoric and prosody govern both. It is, therefore wrong to say that the literary language is archaic or antiquated as the few advocates of the Madras School represent it to be"
Mr. Veeresalingam who was elected president of the public meeting held at Madras Telugu drafted by Mr. Jayanti Ramayya pantulu, emphatically denounced modern Telugu as a vulgar dialect. We then criticized his views in our pamphlet entitled A Memorandum on modern Telugu and discussed the question frequently with him. It is a most remarkable thing that Mr.Veeresalngam Pantulu, the beau-ideal of the classical school and should have changed his views and publicly declared in his "Autobiography" that Telugu had changed and a new grammar ought to be compiled to suit the requirements of modern Telugu Prose and recorded his intention to write some work in modern Telugu and a grammar of modern Telugu. But alas ! he is no more! There are thousands of educated Telugus who now perceive the error of the classical school.
