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	Vizag Art & Culture Review - VizagCityOnline.com
		Kanyasulkam, a century old magnum-opus of Mahakavi Gurazada Apparao, later dramatized into a play-let, still draws a huge audience across Andhra Pradesh.
		Kanyasulkam depicts the social and economic conditions of Telugu society during the days of the Raj.
		Kanyasulkam is a parody of the social system of that era.
	www.vizagcityonline.com /vizagculture/archive/index1.html (359 words)

	Muse India - Past Issue - Vijayasree C, Vijay Kumar T: Kanyasulkam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Kanyasulkam enjoys several distinctions: it was the first social play in Telugu, the first full-length play in prose, the first to employ colloquial Telugu, and the first to use ‘local’ actors (Gurajada’s “Preface to the Second Edition” gives an account of the condition of the Telugu stage).
		But for Telugu readers, Kanyasulkam is not an archival document — words and phrases from the play have now become part of their language, and characters and their mannerisms have become familiar points of reference.
		Although written with an express intent “to advance the cause of social reform, and to combat a popular prejudice that the Telugu language was unsuited to the stage,” the play is far from propagandist, nor its appeal limited to social historians and literary critics.
	www.museindia.com /showcont.asp?id=201 (1578 words)

	Indiaclub.com: Kanyasulkam : Fiction
		Kanyasulkam is often hailed as the first modern text in Telugu, but interestingly, it is also one of the earliest to have critiqued the colonial models of modernity.
		Kanyasulkam, in contrast, is both the cult text and a serious indictment of modernity.
		Gurajada Appa Rao’s Telugu play Kanyasulkam was first staged in Vizianagaram on August 13, 1892, and even now, after more than a century, it continues to be performed occasionally in different town s and cities of Andhra Pradesh.
	www.indiaclub.com /Shop/SearchResults.asp?ProdStock=12666 (383 words)

	TeluguOne
		Gurazada Venkata Apparao (1862-1915) (also transliterated as Gurajada) wrote the first Telugu play, Kanyasulkam, which is often considered the greatest play in the Telugu language.
		Kanyasulkam is about the deplorable condition of widows in traditional Brahmin families in the Andhra region of India during the 19th century.
		The Kanyasulkam was the first to achieve both the aims.
	teluguone.com /splevents/general/index.jsp?filename=gurajadaapparao.htm (1983 words)

	Telugu Poets - Vundavilli
		On the 13th of August, 1992, "Kanyasulkam" celebrated its 100th birthday, eversince it was staged for the first time.
		Girls at ten years of age were married to men of 65 years of age or older in return the girls' parents used to receive a sum of Rs 1000/- or more.
		"Kanyasulkam" was performed for the first time by the "Jagannadha Vilasini Sabha" of Vizianagaram in 1892.
	www.vundavilli.com /Telugu/teluguPoets.htm (4603 words)

	Telugu cinema celebrity - JV Somayajulu
		He acted in the play 'Kanyasulkam' for 500 times in his theater-career along with his actor brother JV Ramana Murthy for 45 years.
		Whenever there is an actress acting in Somayajulu's play, she used to provide shelter to her in her house.
		In the early 1980s, K Vishanath was searching for an actor to play a role that has the attributes of a pure Brahmin and a music exponent.
	www.idlebrain.com /celeb/starow/sow-jvsomayajulu.html (708 words)

	Telugu cinema celebrity - JV Somayajulu
		He acted in the play 'Kanyasulkam' for 500 times in his career along with his brother actor JV Ramana Murthy for 45 years.
		Whenever there is a women acting in Somayajulu's play, she used to make her feel comfortable by proving a room in her house.
		JV Somayajulu's passion for Kanyasulkam was ignited by his teachers.
	www.idlebrain.com /celeb/starow/sow-jv.html (684 words)

	KANYASULKAM - PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
		To undrstand every atom of Gurajada's mental profile, philosophy, and love towards his "Telugu" and his people, one need not read any literary criticism written by experts on GurajaDa or Kanyasulkam but this preface.
		This preface is also a historical account depicting how the vernacular Telugu (spoken form) has come in to existence.
		Kanyasulkam gave little scope to vulgar stage attractions such as flaring costumes, sensuous dances, bad music and sham fights; yet it drew crowded houses and vindicated the claims of the vernacular.
	www.teluguworld.org /Nuggets/kanyasulkam_2.html (1024 words)

	KANYASULKAM - PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
		The following is a reproduction of preface to the first edition of Kanyasulkam.
		There is no better judge than Gurajada himself on his Kanyasulkam play.
		BRAHMAVIVAHAM was meant to be a pure comedy of manners, while in KANYASULKAM humor, characterization, and the construction of an original and complex plot have been attempted - with what success, it is for the public to judge.
	www.teluguworld.org /Nuggets/kanyasulkam.html (666 words)

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		Gurajada Appa Rao's classic `Kanyasulkam' continues to enthral audience in its new 26 episode tele-serial format.
		What better medium of educating the largely illiterate people than drama, in which the characters spoke the language of the masses.
		The story revolves round a nine-year-old girl, who is offered by her father Agnihotra Avadhanalu to the 60-year-old Lubdhaavadhanulu for a kanyasulkam of Rs.1, 800.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005112502350400.htm&date=2005/11/25/&prd=fr& (342 words)

	All About Andhra and Telugu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The influence of Chinnayasuri temporarily arrested the growth of creative prose by famous writers until Gurazada Appa Rao appeared on the scene and produced his social play Kanyasulkam in 1897 in a near modern language.
		The controversy that raged between the two schools, classical and modern subsided in 1919 with a victory for the classic writers to perpetuate the use of the so-called granthikam (or the poetic dialect) as the language of the text-book language and the medium of examination.
		``Kanyasulkam'' (Bride-Money), the first social play in Telugu by Gurazada Appa Rao was a thumping success.
	www.citehr.com /sitemap.php/all-about-andhra-and-telugu-vt8713.html (2604 words)

	The Hindu : Kanyasulkam
		The first piece is from Gurazada Appa Rao's Telugu play 'Kanyasulkam' (1897) which continues to be popular even today.
		Gurazada's Telugu play "Kanyasulkam" was first performed in 1892, and published in 1897.
		The first Telugu play to use colloquial language, "Kanyasulkam" continues to be read and performed today, more than a century after its first publication, not so much for its primary theme of social reform, but for its humour and vivid rendering of contemporary life.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/02/06/stories/1306067n.htm (907 words)

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		The social evil of `kanyasulkam' (bride-price, in order to facilitate old men marry very young girls), to combat which it was expressly written, has been long extinct, but the play refuses to get dated.
		It is difficult to sketch what Kanyasulkam is about in a few words.
		From its first version, which was narrowly focused on `Brahmin sulka marriages', it grew over a period of 15 years into a virtual encyclopaedic portrayal of a particular late 19th century North Andhra socio-cultural complex.
	www.fullhyderabad.com /discussions/viewtopic.php?t=38900&start=225 (3420 words)

	'Shankarabharanam' star Somayajulu is dead
		Veteran film artiste Jonnalagadda Venkata Somayajulu of Shankarabharanam fame died of cardiac arrest at a corporate hospital in Hyderabad last night, family sources said.
		Born in August 1928 in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, Somayajulu became a renowned stage artiste and played the role of Ramappa Panthulu to perfection in the evergreen play Kanyasulkam written by the legendary Gurujada Apparao.
		Keertisheshulu and NGO were the other popular plays he staged during four decades of theatre activity.
	www.rediff.com /movies/2004/apr/28somaya.htm (209 words)

	FilmChamber.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Along with his brother J V Ramana Murthy, Somayajulu staged their favourite play “Kanyasulkam” for more than 500 times all over the state.
		Somayajulu had bagged the role in Shankarabharam, thanks to singer S P Balasubramanyam who had recommended his name to Vishwanath.
		Apart from acting in a Hindi film Prati-bandh, Somayajulu also made a 13-episode serial on Kanyasulkam and acted in other serials.
	www.filmchamber.com /tmpl.asp?it=nwapr28 (395 words)

	Welcome to KutcheriBuzz.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		It further advocated that classical music does not belong to the upper classes alone and can be passed on from a Guru to a deserving sishya, irrespective of caste or creed.
		Somayajulu was also a stage actor and for many years portrayed the character of 'Ramappantulu' in a path breaking drama 'Kanyasulkam' by the well known writer Gurazada Apparao.
		His brother J. Ramana Murthy, as 'Girisam' the Bohemian teacher, used to support Somayajulu in the play.
	www.kutcheribuzz.com /news/20040430/actor.asp (162 words)

	Indian literature Summary
		His philosophy made him a unique poet of the masses.
		KANYASULKAM STANDS ONE OF THE BEST PLAYS THAT HAVE EVER BEEN WRITTEN IN THE WORLD LITERATURE.
		ROMANTIC MOMENT:KRISHNA SASTRI, the wizard of Telugu Romantic poetry is said to be another SHELLY.
	www.bookrags.com /Indian_literature (2600 words)

	Hindu On Social Reform
		Resolved—" That this Conference most earnestly calls upon all enlightened Hindus to accelerate in all possible ways the social amelioration of the depressed castes."
		Resolved—" That this Conference views with great disfavour the practices of Kanyasulkam and Varasulkam, which degrade marriage to a mercenary transaction, and calls upon the Hindus to discourage them by all possible means."
		Resolved—" That this Conference strongly reprobates the cruel practice of disfigurement of Hindu widows, even before they pass the stage of girlhood, and calls upon all caste and reform organizations, as well as the religious heads of the community, to arrange for the infliction of social penalties on those responsible for such practice."
	www.oldandsold.com /articles38/hindu-16.shtml (571 words)

	The telusa list-archive: kanyasulkam & Varakatnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Next message: Bapa Rao: "Re: kanyasulkam and Varakatnam"
		Next in thread: Ramakrishna S. Pillalamarri: "Re: kanyasulkam and Varakatnam"
		Maybe reply: Ramakrishna S. Pillalamarri: "Re: kanyasulkam and Varakatnam"
	chaitanya.bhaavana.net /telusa/may96/0026.html (184 words)

	Stars : Star Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		He also came in contact with the noted actor-director Chatla Sriramulu who studied acting at the British Drama League in London.
		Between 1973 and 1984, he acted in the famous play Kanyasulkam, along with JV Ramana Murthy and the late JV Somayajulu.
		He founded Kalajyotsna in 1975 and successfully staged several plays and won innumerable awards.
	www.telugucinema.com /tc/stars/lsatyanand.php (864 words)

	The telusa list-archive: Re: kanyasulkam & Varakatnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Maybe in reply to: Sreenivasa Rao: "kanyasulkam and Varakatnam"
		I think "vidhava punarvivaham" (remariage of the widows) was taken up by
		Which in itself may not indicate the existence of kanyasulkam in
	chaitanya.bhaavana.net /telusa/may96/0031.html (181 words)

	telgu language
		Viswanath Satyanarayana has won the coveted Jnanpith Award.
		Kanyasulkam (bride money) the first social play in Telugu by Gurajada Appa Rao was a thumping success.
		We also find the progressive movement, free verse movementb and the Digambara style finding expression in the Telugu literature.
	www.indiavisitinformation.com /indian-language/telgu-language.shtml (433 words)

	Kanyasulkam Audio Songs Movie Cinema Music Telugu - MusicMazaa
		Kanyasulkam Audio Songs Movie Cinema Music Telugu - MusicMazaa
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	musicmazaa.com /telugu/audiosongs/movie/Kanyasulkam.html (52 words)

	Girls for Sale: Kanyasulkam, a Play from Colonial India - Wal-Mart
		Girls for Sale: Kanyasulkam, a Play from Colonial India - Wal-Mart
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	Girls for Sale / Indiana University Press
		This translation is a work of art, and I predict that it will, on its own terms, become a classic." —David Shulman, Hebrew University
		First staged in 1892, the South Indian play Girls for Sale (Kanyasulkam) is considered the greatest modern work of Telugu literature and the first major drama written in an Indian language that critiqued British colonialism's effects on Indian society.
		Filled with humor, biting social commentary, parody, and masquerade, the plot revolves around a clever courtesan, a young widow, and a very old man who wants to buy as his wife a very young girl.
	www.iupress.indiana.edu /catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1037_1105_1664&products_id=41655 (242 words)

	khojhyderabad.com > News
		Entertainment News Last Updated on : 1/12/2006 3:01:00 PM Talk on Kanyasulkam at Press Club
		A talk on ‘Unmasking Appa Rao: Rethinking Kanyasulkam’ by Prof.
		Velcheru Narayana Rao will be held at 6 PM today at Basheerbagh Press Club.
	www.khojhyderabad.com /News/Fullstory.asp?q=61050 (86 words)

	Border and Transcultural Studies - Chekuri & Muppidi
		Minutes into our conversation on emails, he said disapprovingly: "You Americans, why are you so ignorant about computers!" I suppose I, along with other researchers from Madison, did not fit his image of a citizen of the technological world, a subjectivity that he assumed on the basis of our U.S location.
		Although trained as a historian, he seemed to have an equally good command over the arcana of emailing: terms such "modem strings", "script files," "batch files," rolled off his tongue as easily as Sumati Satakamu, Kanyasulkam, and Tuzuk-i-Jahangir.
		I soon realized that this was no isolated experience but one that I would have to go through almost daily during my fieldwork time in India.
	btcs.wisc.edu /chekurimuppidi.htm (3543 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: 'Sowcar' Janaki joins BJP
		The popular actress had made her debut in the early 1950s with the Telugu film Sowcar.
		She also starred in Kanyasulkam starring N T Rama Rao, Savithri, Gummadi Venkateswara Rao and others.
		Tell us what you think of this report
	www.rediff.com /news/1999/jun/12ap.htm (191 words)

	Telugu Diaspora, Overseas Telugus, People of Telugu Origin, NRIs, Telugu Identity, Migration of Andhras,
		Next year, the French Ministry of Culture will be celebrating the Year of Indian Literature.
		It is an opportunity for telugu classics, novels and poetry to be translated into French (By the way Unesco long ago sponsored the translation of Kanyasulkam into French).
		Please send articles on any aspect of Overseas Telugu Diaspora to
	www.telugudiaspora.com /telugu_countries_article5.htm (2130 words)

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		You can read novels/stories/essays written by your favorite authors in Telugu.
		(For instance: How about reading Yandamuri’s Vennello Aadapilla or Gurajada’s Kanyasulkam online?
		It is like a dream-come-true for every gult living outside India.) Apart from these two highly attractive features, the site has all the normal features like - Telugu email, Panchangam, Pooja vidhanam, online shoppe and a humor section.
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