15 Facts About Bhadriraju Krishnamurti

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti was an Indian linguist who specialised in Dravidian languages.

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti was born in Ongole in the Madras Presidency of British India.

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti was the vice-chancellor of the University of Hyderabad from 1986 to 1993, and founded the Department of Linguistics at Osmania University, where he served as a professor from 1962 to 1986.

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti's grandson, Ravi Bhadriraju, was a rhythm guitarist in the famous death metal band, Job for a Cowboy.

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti is considered to be among the first to apply the rigour of modern comparative linguistic theory to further the study of Dravidian languages.

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti's recent work The Dravidian Languages published by Cambridge University Press is a culmination of the scholarly research carried out by him in the last fifty years.

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti was instrumental in conceptualizing, designing and implementing the compilation of A Telugu Dialect Dictionary of Occupational Vocabularies in Andhra Pradesh, India, and so far over a dozen volumes covering different occupations and dialects have been published.

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti was associated with the study of South Indian languages in many western institutions, and was a visiting professor of linguistics at several universities.

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti was the first Asian Fellow at ANU, a Resident Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, and Rama Watumaull Distinguished Indian Scholar at the University of Hawaii.

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti was a visiting professor at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Cornell University, Ithaca, Australian National University, Tokyo University, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, University of Hawaii, University of Texas at Arlington.

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti was the first of the two Indian scholars to become a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and only second Indian after S K Chatterji to receive an honorary membership from the Linguistic Society of America in 1985.

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti was elected Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK, in 2004.

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti was conferred an honorary doctorate in literature by Sri Venkateswara University in 1998, and by Dravidian University in 2007.

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti was elected Fellow of Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, in 2004.

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti received the Gidugu Ramamurti Award at the 15th TANA, Detroit, July 2005.