1. The library movement in Telangana, as in the rest of the country, began in which century?
2. Which library was established in Hyderabad city in 1901?
3. Consider the following statements about the founders of Sri Krishnadevaraya Andhra Bhasha Nilayam:
(I) Komarraju Venkatalakshmana Rao was one of the founders.
(II) Ravichettu Rangarao was one of the founders.
(III) Munagala jamindar Raja Nayani Venkatarangarao was one of the founders.
Which of the above is/are correct?
4. The founders of Sri Krishnadevaraya Andhra Bhasha Nilayam aspired to adorn mother Telugu with a:
5. Among its aims, Sri Krishnadevaraya Andhra Bhasha Nilayam undertook work aimed at countering:
6. The Asafia State Library in Hyderabad was formed in 1886 when a nationalist named Abdul Khayyum joined with a Nawab and another individual to bring an existing library under their management for public benefit. This Nawab was:
7. The Asafia State Library is presently known, and continues to function today, as the:
8. In 1895, some patriots established the "Bharata Gunavardhaka Sanstha" in the old city's:
9. The Rajarajanarendra Andhra Bhasha Nilayam was established in Hanamkonda in:
10. Who served as secretary of the Rajarajanarendra Andhra Bhasha Nilayam at Hanamkonda?
11. The Andhra Samvardhani Grandhalayam was established in Secunderabad in:
12. The Mahaboobiya Grandhalayam was established at Errupalem in:
13. The Andhra Vignana Prakashana Grandhalayam was established at Suryapet in:
14. The Andhra Saraswati Grandhalayam was established at Nalgonda in:
15. The early Telangana libraries established in the 1900s–1920s provided students and city residents with abundant access to:
16. Within Telangana, the main reason for national/patriotic consciousness taking root was:
17. By 1922, before the Andhra movement had properly begun, approximately how many libraries had already been established in Telangana?
18. Which library was established in Warangal, as one of the roughly 15 libraries founded by 1922?
19. Which library, among those established by 1922, was founded in Khammam?
20. Consider the following statements about libraries established by 1922:
(I) The Siddhimalleswara Grandhalayam was established at Remidicherla.
(II) The Balasaraswati Andhra Grandhalayam was established at Golconda, Hyderabad.
(III) The Vemana Andhra Bhashanilayam was established at Nampalli.
Which of the above is/are correct?
21. Shortly before the Andhra movement began, which library was inspected by the then collector, leading to a dispute?
22. The Suryapet collector viewed the library being run purely through public cooperation at a taluka headquarters as an act of:
23. When the collector asked whether government permission had been taken to run the Suryapet library, the workers' answer was:
24. Upon hearing that no permission had been taken, the collector ordered that the Suryapet library be:
25. News of the Suryapet library's closure was conveyed to Madapati Hanumantha Rao, who then wrote a letter to:
26. In his letter, Hanumantha Rao pointed out that the collector was also chairman of the district's:
27. Hanumantha Rao's letter noted that such an official was expected to provide financial assistance to public libraries, not to:
28. After the Home Secretary sought information from the collector, his final response to Hanumantha Rao stated that:
29. Following the Home Secretary's clarification, the Suryapet library was:
30. The Madikonda library faced a similar ordeal, remaining unpermitted for:
31. In Karimnagar district, the tahsildar who inspected the Sirisilla library remarked that since official government business was conducted entirely in Urdu, there was no need to:
32. The Nizam government's hostility toward the Telugu language existed despite the government being aware that Telugu was the language of:
33. Since few people came forward to donate or pay monthly subscriptions to libraries, village elders and well-wishers had to personally raise money for:
34. To establish the Korutla library in Karimnagar district, Shatavadhani Krishnamacharyulu went house to house collecting:
35. The money raised by selling the collected rice at Korutla was used to purchase:
36. Library secretaries in this period pioneered a novel practice of distributing books by travelling on:
37. This bicycle-based book distribution practice came to be known as:
38. In Chennur, Adilabad district, establishing a library was difficult mainly because the town's Brahmin-majority population was more interested in:
39. The individual who devised a clever scheme to fund the Chennur library was a Maharashtrian who worked locally as a:
40. The doctor's scheme involved announcing that he wished to hold a "samaradhana" (feast/offering) and requesting donations of items including rice, sugar, lentils, oil, tamarind, and:
41. Because people compete to be seen supplying whatever a doctor asks for, the villagers supplied the requested provisions:
42. The doctor served the public only an ordinary meal at the feast, then had a merchant sell off the surplus provisions, raising:
43. With the proceeds, the doctor purchased land of about three hundred yards at the village centre and built a:
44. The library established through this scheme at Chennur was named:
45. When village elders were invited, the doctor revealed that he had funded the library by selling the leftover items from the:
46. Andhra pitamaha Madapati Hanumantha Rao once remarked that neither libraries nor temples themselves mattered as much as the fact that they signified:
47. Many young library workers who organised annual celebrations ended up experiencing:
48. When library annual celebrations were planned in Nalgonda and Suryapet, the district collector obstructed them and additionally demanded that he first be shown:
49. Library workers responded to the collector's demand to pre-vet speeches by:
50. Despite the harsh restrictions imposed, the enthusiasm of library workers:
51. A landmark development described as deserving to be written in golden letters in library movement history was a High Court ruling that the government:
52. In 1939, Vellutti Manikya Rao, Gundavarapu Hanumantha Rao, and with their initiative K. C. Gupta established a venture known as:
53. For this book series, it was decided that each book would cost only an anna, and a set of a hundred books would be sold for just:
54. Gupta's house in which locality served as the central hub for these banned-priced books?
55. These books were sold in Hyderabad in front of Subbarao's hotel located in Golconda and in:
56. The first publication in this book series, published in November 1939, was titled:
57. This first book was a Telugu translation, by Vellutti Manikya Rao, of the Nizam government's reforms as originally published in:
58. Madapati Hanumantha Rao wrote an introduction of how many pages for this first book?
59. Encouraged by this response, Vellutti Manikya Rao brought out a second book in the series titled:
60. The book "Rytu" described farmers' hardships and called upon them to:
61. The Nizam government's response to the book "Rytu" was to:
62. To find and confiscate the banned book, the Nizam government stationed police at:
63. In Jagityal taluka's Nemalikonda village, the Vignana Prachaarini Grandhamala published valuable books written by well-known authors on village agriculture, medicine, industries, and:
64. How many invaluable books did the Vignana Prachaarini Grandhamala at Nemalikonda publish?
65. The "Sahiti Mekha" organisation was formed through the efforts of Dhavala Srinivasa Rao and Saripigrada Bhargava Rao in which Nalgonda district town?
66. Who served as the patron of the Sahiti Mekha organisation?
67. The Hyderabad Sahitya Parishattu was established in 1932 with Acharya Rayaprolu Subba Rao as president and which person as secretary?
68. Through the efforts of Burgula Ranganadha Rao, Nellore Keshavaswamy, and Vellutti Manikya Rao, the Sadhana Samiti was established in:
69. Consider the following statements about the activities of the Sadhana Samiti:
(I) It published narrative poems.
(II) It published short stories.
(III) It published literary criticism.
Which of the above is/are correct?
70. At Sadhana Samiti meetings, its members would read out:
71. Vattikota Alwarswamy established the "Deshoddharaka Grandhamalu" in:
72. The Deshoddharaka Grandhamalu's publishing activity took place across two distinct periods: 1938–41, and:
73. A remarkable feature of the Deshoddharaka Grandhamalu was that Vattikota Alwarswamy carried the books slung over his shoulder in a bag and:
74. Vattikota Alwarswamy published books on Telangana history and culture that explained contemporary problems, giving impetus to which two things in Telangana?
75. The Telangana Rachayitala Sangham (Telangana Writers' Association) was formed in:
76. As soon as the Telangana Rachayitala Sangham was founded, it broke the region's long-standing:
77. As a result of the Telangana Rachayitala Sangham's formation, writers' associations sprang up in:
78. Who is credited as the person who gave voice to the many suppressed talents of Telangana through the Telangana Rachayitala Sangham?
79. Which of the following was among the writers whose contributions enriched the Telangana Rachayitala Sangham?
80. During the Telangana freedom struggle, poetry recitations became a fixture at library annual celebrations and:
81. During the Telangana freedom struggle, at political mahasabhas, poets' verses became a matter of:
82. Some people claimed that wherever Telugu speakers lived in Telangana they eventually became Urdu speakers, implying that Telangana had no poets of its own. This claim caused deep anguish to:
83. In response to this claim, Suravaram Pratapa Reddy compiled the works of poets from across Telangana's four regions and published this anthology in 1934 under the title:
84. The Golconda Kavula Sanchika compiled the works of how many poets from Telangana?
85. Which of the following poets was born and flourished in the Telangana region?
86. Consider the following statements about poets connected with the Telangana region, as compiled in Suravaram Pratapa Reddy's 1934 anthology of local poets:
(I) Palkuriki Somanadha is named among them.
(II) Vemulawada Bhimakavi is named among them.
(III) Kandukuri Veeresalingam is named among them.
Which of the above is/are correct?
87. Efforts to establish the Andhra Sarasvata Parishattu began a little before which Andhra Mahasabha session?
88. Who began the early efforts toward forming the Andhra Sarasvata Parishattu, ahead of others?
89. With Alwarswamy's encouragement, Burgula Ranganadha Rao and Bhaskarabhatla Krishnarao convened Hyderabad's leaders and literature-lovers from nearby towns on 26 May 1943 at:
90. Who presided over this founding meeting of 26 May 1943?
91. The unanimous decision at this founding meeting was to establish a literary organisation with the primary aim of:
92. Before the final name was settled, considerable dispute arose over the organisation's:
93. Rayaprolu Subba Rao, Mahammad Ghasi Khan, and Kuruganti Seetaramayya (Rahasi) had earlier together established a temporary organisation called:
94. This earlier organisation, aided by government support, published books that praised and were dedicated to:
95. Because of this earlier association, the new organisation decided to name itself:
96. To draft a rulebook and action plan, a sub-committee was selected consisting of how many members?
97. Which of the following was a member of this 11-member sub-committee?
98. Which of the following was NOT a member of the 11-member sub-committee?
99. The first Mahasabha of the Andhra Sarasvata Parishattu, at the Reddy Hostel library, was held on:
100. At the first Mahasabha, who was elected president of the Nizamrashtra Andhra Sarasvata Parishattu?
101. Who was elected as chief secretary at this first Mahasabha?
102. Initially, the Andhra Sarasvata Parishattu's office/headquarters was located at:
103. Lokanandi Shankaranarayana Rao had to give up the presidency because he moved to another city due to his:
104. Following Lokanandi's departure, who became president of the Parishattu?
105. The Andhra Sarasvata Parishattu's second anniversary celebration was held in:
106. Who presided over the second anniversary celebration at Warangal?
107. Who served as secretary and organised the reception committee for the Warangal anniversary session?
108. The Mahasabha halls for this session were arranged within premises belonging to:
109. At this session, roughly how many poet-scholars were specially honoured with silver vessels?
110. Who inaugurated the Warangal anniversary sabha?
111. Who presided over the main sabha at the Warangal anniversary session (distinct from the person who inaugurated it)?
112. A poets' assembly planned as part of this session was to be held at:
113. Consider the following statements about the poets' assembly planned at Warangal Fort:
(I) Some Razakar rowdies destroyed the pandal erected that morning.
(II) M. S. Rajalingam and his youth organisation ensured the assembly still took place there.
(III) The assembly was ultimately cancelled altogether due to the disruption.
Which of the above is/are correct?
114. The much-delayed third session of the Parishattu was eventually held, after great effort, at:
115. Who presided over the third session of the Andhra Sarasvata Parishattu at Nalgonda?
116. Due to political instability in the state at the time, the third session at Nalgonda concluded:
117. Which organisation in the Nizam's state could not tolerate the Parishattu's activities, leading to acts of hooliganism?
118. In Mahbubnagar district, a session of the Parishattu was made possible with the help of a friend of Devulapalli Ramanujarao who served as collector, namely:
119. Despite strong opposition from local fanatic Muslim leaders, the Mahbubnagar session went ahead because:
120. The British government declared India's independence on:
121. Following India's independence, the Nizam declared himself to be:
122. Following the Nizam's declaration of independence, which movement intensified in the state?
123. During this period of unrest, Parishattu secretary Biduru Venkateshayya left the state and went to:
124. As a result of this unrest, the Parishattu's activities were:
125. Among the Andhra Sarasvata Parishattu's ongoing activities, it prepared regional/dialect dictionaries, described as:
126. In nurturing the Parishattu, whose role is described as especially prominent, having grown it from a sapling into a tree?
127. Who later took charge of the Parishattu's responsibilities, built new buildings, and shaped modern programmes for it?
