27. Commentaries on Books

27. Commentaries on Books
The Prosody of the Telugu and Sanskrit languages explained

References to authors
In this book CPB referred to 55 authors. The Editor G.N. Reddy, and Bangorey regret not having included the whole list. Even a cursory glance at the list of the fourteen authors (out of the 55) included shows how utterly unconnected these people are with the subject matter of the book. This reference is a clear proof of the pedantry of CPB, besides an unthinking editorship. The aim of CPB is to impress his readers that he has studied all these authors at one time or other, a cheap way of impressing the British students for whom the book was meant. We have seen the type of riff raff who used to come, with very little scholastic background. This is the sure way of gaining some upper hand over them because, CPB is certain that none of them would have had a glimpse of these books. The pity is our editors, who have with them the comments by Caldwell, have succumbed to this childish way of CPB of impressing people.

The rejection by the College Board of this book has not been brought out by the editors. The College Board obviously knows the shallowness of CPB and the useless ness of the book. It was eventually published decades later.
“Although he devoted all his life, energy and money to the study of Telugu and virtually rescued from oblivion almost all the major as well as minor classics of Telugu literature, we paid little attention to his work.” The above sentence is one of the most obnoxious lies and contains so many elements each one of which is a vicious untruth. I have pointed out such lies at various places, but I shall deal with them again briefly.

1. Firstly there were no signs of Telugu literature facing oblivion. Please see chapter 17.
2. Secondly that the Mss were all illegible and faulty is not true. I have checked from 14 GOML catalogues, and find that more than 50 % are in acceptable readable condition even in 1932, not to speak of in 1832.
3. The editors do not want to analyse and find the real truth behind this perfidious game of Mss collection. Please see chapter 13. Palm Leaf Manuscripts.
As per CPB the Telugu standard in Madras College was deplorable, and yet he hardly scraped through. He himself said he did not read or own a single Telugu book for seven years, till 1828. He also said that he learnt nothing in the college in 3years. These being the facts, it should be researched as to who wrote this book. We must keep in mind his own statements of using amanuensis in Cuddapah showing his inability in writing in Telugu script.
Incidentally is there single a book, even a page written by him in Telugu script in his own hand? If so why is it the researchers did not put a sample facsimile, as they have done with the English writing and even the first posting letter to Cuddapah?
After the publication of the first edition of the book, Prof. Dr. SALVA KRISHNAMURTY, M.A., M. Litt, Ph. D. wrote me on this point on follows: “Early in my career (1952-53), before I entered Collegiate Teaching Service, I did a stint of service at GOML, Madras – 5 describing Col. Mackenzie’s collection of Mss. When I had the opportunity of seeing many, if not all ‘the CPB’s collection of Mss. With his occasional remark / comment in English. But I have not seen even a single page of his Telugu writing. I have never considered CPB as any kind of a scholar in Telugu”.
“I believe, with the honourable exceptions of Orientalists, the results of the exertions of these civil servants have been motivated by their career / administrative exigencies or their desire to propagate Christianity. The benefits of their work have been marginal and secondary”.
“Your book has pricked the bubble. Whatever may be the averments of CPB – enthusiasts I believe it was the poor pundits who did almost all the work”?
It was easy for him to make someone write the whole book using one of his beneficiaries. This was a practice adopted by Campbell, as well as the genius Morris, according to CPB who castigates them for using the natives to write and usurping the credit. So why do we think he is above this practice? If his movements from station to station, Vs the dates of Mss parishkarana are all tallied any one can see that he did NOTHING, except write a page or two of COMMENTS on the book.
This trick of blaming others of stealing authorship is as old as Adam. The thief joining the crowd shouting loudest of all,” Catch the Thief, Catch the Thief” is an old joke in the Hindi movies. CPB is exactly that type who put his name to whatever book he got hold of. So many were already available as can be seen below:
1. Benjamin Schultz was the first European to bring out printed books in Telugu.
2. Carey of Serampur published a Telugu grammar; on this was grounded Pritchett’s… printed in 1819.
3. Teloogoo Grammar. A.D. Campbell in 1816 Reward 15000/-
4. Lexicon Dictionary – Andhra Dipika… M. Venkayya – (3500Rs. reward)
5. Translated the above as Dictionary – WILSON – 1821 15000/-
6. Based also on Reeves E. Kannada Dictionaries.
7. Gentoo Vocabulary and Grammar – William Brown 1818.

‘Since my grammar was written in 1840, two or three works have been written to supersede it.’ CPB condemns them and states that his own second edition though amended at nearly every page was the best. If it was so good how come that every page had to be amended? Doesn’t it show some thing wrong with a grammar that needed amendments of every page? On top of it he states that he reincorporated some parts, which he removed in the first edition. That is the grammarian for you one, who removes rules as redundant and reinstates after a few years. What happens to the generations of students who studied the earlier versions? But our biographer doesn’t ask these questions; he doesn’t even deal with the issue.
All the same let us take the underlined sentence. A grammar is written of a language, which has more than 1000years of known literature, and for which there are at this point of time over 15 or more grammars to refer to; and he has over 10 Pundits working. Yet he finds that in about 12years every page of his own grammar had to be amended or added to. What do you make of the First Version? Do grammars get modified / amended every decade?
Stretch your imagination and think of Panini’s Sutras getting modified – even every century!! Such is the person who is projected as the saviour of our literature. Simply, and to put it bluntly, he has no clue of what he was doing to the language, which his mind could not grasp and out of sheer frustration and dejection he went about maligning every one and every issue connected with the language.

Look at the preposterous statement: -
“As I proceeded I had to make my own tools to write my own Grammar and Dictionary”. This is a misleading assertion. As brought out there were enough grammars and dictionaries already and he used all of them as bases. THERE IS NOTHING ORIGINAL either in concept or execution except that he messed up so much that they are no longer of any use for man or beast. They are on the dung heap of forgotten history already.

27. Commentaries on books E. C P Brown by Dr V. V. Subrahmanya Sharma

27. Commentaries on books E. C P Brown by Dr V. V. Subrahmanya Sharma
This is a book published in 2003.There is a photograph alleged to be of C.P. Brown’s office room. This is utterly ridiculous filled with latest sofa sets, godrej tables etc. and smacks of a misplaced hero-worship. Out of a total of 76 pages excluding the two thick glossy covers, there are only10 pages on the life of CPB, and 8 pages on his works, and 4 pages on his will and postings etc. which may be termed as biography. Most of it is inane stuff. Apparently the book was written more for personal satisfaction of the erudite scholar. There were 23 boys 25 girls in the orphanage looked after by D.B. He served only for about two years when he was asked to leave it in August 1788 and concentrate his attention towards missionary work (Why was he asked to leave is a question to be looked into as he was actually brought to India for this job? Was he making money? A moral behaviour?). He was appointed presidency chaplain in 1794. The same year, his wife died. The Fort William College started by Wellesley (1787-1805) imparted elementary knowledge of Indian languages. D.B. became a provost in the college in 1800 and left the job in 1808. The statement by Dr. Sharma that he continued as a provost ‘till his death’ is therefore not correct and I wonder how the learned Dr. Sharma wrote that. In fact his request to let him work without pay was also turned down. D.B. left no property due to “entire income spent for charitable purposes” is a canard being spread without any evidence. Such adulatory LIES about British are due to psychological bondage under which we Indians are still suffering. I have proved elsewhere in Chapter 11 that even if 10 guests were to be with him throughout his Life, the prices being such it would not have made a dent. In fact there is a very strong case to investigate if he had a few concubines, as was the general practice with at least 70 % of chaplains who had easy access to easy women. Dr Sharma quotes CPB, “From childhood I was taught to correct errata and fill up deficient passages in books. The driest enquiries had the greatest charms for me”. This is a typical child’s job and instead of going to a school, CPB spent the boyhood at home and later bluff the world that he learnt all languages at home! The author says, because of the corrections, of errata Brown could undertake and pursue literary activities of immense importance for the growth of Telugu language and literature as he got his first appointment in the Telugu region. Let us analyse this insipid statement.A boy, sits at home, no school, no work, and corrects errata. What knowledge of a language of any topic is gained? The fact is they had no schools to go to being more or less an occupation army, after Plassey in 1757. Have a look at CPB’s obituary, which says he had a practical knowledge of Persian, Hindustani and Sanscrit not scholarly knowledge. There is a gulf of difference, between practical knowledge as against scholarship, which our learned Dr. Sharma should know. If boys can become scholars living at home, 90% of schools can be closed and converted to Reading Rooms!! If collection of manuscripts and getting them corrected is a great service we may as well stop creativity and dump thousands of manuscripts in schools. There are thousands of them in various Manuscript Libraries! I shall skip most of the stuff repeated, by Dr. Sharma from the two other biographies, of Rao and Bangorey.But the most farfetched, ridiculous and blasphemous idea in this book is that Brown had a reverence to the Goddess Lalitha, throughout his life. Publication of Lalithopakhyanam under the title of 'The legend of Venus' is an insulting title given by CPB. Venus is the Goddess who was lovesick and runs after Adonis and this is the typical western way of degrading the Hindu Pantheon. But the pity is how could a Telugu pundit, Dr. Sharma say so if it is not to sell CPB to the Hindu public to do Pada puja to this Lalitopasaka. The putrid mind of CPB must have conceived of portraying the most powerful deity of the Hindu Pantheon as a love sick Venus. This methodology of insulting Hindu Pantheon is continuing from those days till now. Ahalya Sankrandanam, as Bangorey points out was printed for the erotic poetry as also Sasanka Vijayam. CPB gathers Kavichoudappa satakam, along with others. The aim is to tarnish our gods and goddesses, bring out whatever dirty poetry is written. And our biographers call it literary service. I understand that in the Dictionaries also such blasphemous notions exist. See the western Henry Millers, the Harold Robbins, the Mary Anne’s and you can see the havoc being wrought by them. This is the mind that CPB had which conceives of portraying type of Goddess Lalita, held in the greatest veneration by the HINDU as a VENUS. And the writer doesn’t even condemn the sacrilege. All this in spite of the fact that CALDWELL clearly stated that CPB had an anti HINDU mind. Five pages covered V.P. Sastri, a teacher and R.G. Sastri another teacher. While dealing with the former the author says that Telugu verses and lyrics mesmerised the mind of C.P. Brown while Brown himself never said so! And how can a person who was learning alphabets, to pass a compulsory, elementary exam start becoming music minded in the class? Are the alphabets taught in a musical fashion? The most reprehensible statement is “that CPB was admired and adored as an incarnation of the Goddess Saraswathi by the learned Pundits in India”. It is insult to make such unfounded assertions based on pauperised shameless writers who have sunk into a pitiable state of slavishness due to poverty, begging for food all the time. To take the views of such demented poets and calling them learned pundits is it self an insult. The author does not seem to realise the contradictory statements of the write up on Vedam and Ravi as opposed to CPB’s statements like lack of dictionary, insufficient grammar, and worthless native books and pedantic teachers. How could the author talk of Vedam as a giant of knowledge and yet accept CPB’s derogatory statements. Doesn’t he see the contradiction? There are four pages reproduced from a fourth class Telugu book published in 1934. It is redundant. However we can see how many erroneous ideas have been pumped into the young impressionable minds of the students of those days probably conditioning them as evidenced by Bezwada Gopala Reddy. I am only repeating the errors in that book, without any detailed comment – 1. He is extremely intelligent (not correct).2. Learnt more than necessary Telugu (not correct).3. Gave lot of money to Pundits (absolutely incorrect).4. There were no dictionaries then and so he makes one with lot of troubles (totally incorrect).5. He was not fond of praise (not correct).
Dr. Frant Gaetaho Morales in his article temoans the fact that we are not careful in using our language particularly when it relates to the West and our inter relationships. DR. Sharma has used words, which literally poison the mind of the poor Telugu children. For example: Brahmayya Shastri, the Telugu master calls Brown a Saraswati, and this Saraswati has not written one single Telugu book!! Or a paragraph in all his Life. Publication of religious books was being discouraged in the presses owned by missionaries and Government. P.H. Shastri seems to have established in 20 April 1840 a press named Viveka Darsham. He also published a few ancient classical works. Similarly B.S. Chari also authored Sabda Ratnakaram. The author mentions seven books in Telugu script published by P.H. Shastri. By and large writing small paragraphs on twenty-one Telugu Pundits of that period is the only asset in this otherwise meaningless monograph.

27. D. CP Brown’s History by J.H. SASTRY

27. CP Brown’s History by J.H. SASTRY

The biography of CPB by Dr. J. Hanumat Sastry secretary of CP Brown Memorial Trust was published by the Telugu Academy, Hyderabad in 1992.

Sastry included a photo of a painting of Caldwell irrelevant to this book, he also printed a for good measure, a dilapidated building in Cuddapah, in which CPB lived for only 1-½ years in 1828-1830. The book abounds in misleading statements, un-spelt innuendos, and exaggerated views – most of which were created, and propagated by the British to denigrate and disintegrate the Indian composite culture and unity as we have seen already. Highly evocative Telugu words are used to create an aura round the cult figure of Brown, as a saviour of Telugu literature. An atmosphere – often derogatory and uncomplimentary to Telugus were created in the book. My comments are made with a view to removing the flawed impressions that the readers will be prone to and put the biography in proper perspective exposing the Lies and exaggerations. Sri. Sastry starts with a statement – “Also the Indian society in those days was unbalanced and rid of Caste / Religious animosities and blind beliefs”. By "those days" J.H. means obviously CPB's days i.e. 1821-1850. As we have seen in the Andhra of 1800-1900 the whole population was totally demoralised and trampled upon and was fighting for its very existence. How then can the author write such a ludicrous statement? Is there any evidence whatever of a "Caste ridden Society" or "a religious animosity?" or social strife. The whole population was fighting to exist. Thus we can, at the outset, see the "Imprinted" "Indoctrinated” mind of the writer in psychological bondage to the colonialist, in it as the SAVIOUR. That was not the real state of that time.

Caste Question It is time we discuss this issue. As these loose statements do untold harm to the living society. Swadharmo Nidhanam Shreyaha is what we always harped on. In the worst case, and giving the worst interpretation if we take it as advising the castes to pursue their Dharma, is it harmful in any way? If a Kapu, who is the protector of a land or a Reddy a leader of people or a Brahmin who is the keeper of the values and the Sastras do their Dharma will it not result in a more cohesive and less competitive society? Were they not all fighting together under Shivaji or Krishna Deva Raja or Baji Rao or even Narasimha Reddy?Historically there was no evidence of any inter-caste animosity or caste wars in Indian society till the advent of the British. Let a group of people of all hues sit and study the history of all the wars that took place all over the country from 1200 till 1800. A period of 600 years, during which millions died, and it will be crystal clear as to how the whole nation fought as one, and it is the Brahmins who were killed for Just being Brahmins. It is time we establish a forum for debate and research and clear the poison that is still being made use of by the politicians, and writers.The people resisted the British in three wars joining with the Marathas or with Tippu or with the Nizam, till all these powers unfortunately fell. It is not possible to fight wars of that nature if the society has no unity and is caste ridden. It is high time we study our history even at such local levels carefully before adding our own mean understanding and biases of today.So-called radical historians like Romilla Thapar make much of Harihara and Bukka as reconvirtees to Hindu fold as if that was a crime even if true! If it is a Truth is it not a great pointed to the desired possibility today when millions of Muslim can return to their roots? Is it not a reform to be recommended than looked down upon? Where are the radicals be Romilla?
Free School Business JHS, as do all others presents this event or starting school in Cuddapah as an epochal event for which CPB should be worshipped. Nothing can be farther from the Truth. These schools are the forerunners, the seeds sown to destroy Hindu Culture. We have seen CPB’s hatred for HINDUISM, the origin of Haileybury College and the Howell’s the missionaries who came to reap souls – what a phrase!!Starting a school is not starting a game on a whistle blow. Umpteen questions arise and it is the duty of a biographer to investigate the issues before words like magnanimity, altruism, and large heartedness is showered.
Where were the schools located? Where did the funds come from? Who were the teachers?What were the pay scales? Did he pay them?How and why did he think of schools within months of going to a place?What was the motivation? Who ran them? Does one start a school just for the heck of it?Who prompted him to start? When and why were they closed?Besides languages what else were they teaching? What are the books?Who ran them in his absence? After he left for Masulipatam?Why is there not a single letter by KR on Schools?Most of these questions arise because it is now confirmed that starting the schools was the first activity to spread Christianity. Even today we gullible Indians feel that the Missionary Schools, Convents, Hospitals started by funds from Bushes, are Great contribution without realising their undermining of our very cultural existence as a Nation / Urban / Rural unbridgeable divide being created without any cementing force of Culture and Language or Religion or even simple ceremonial ethos. What nitwits are created in the convent only JESUS SAHIB knows? Gandhiji wrote--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Even Dr. Ambedkar the arch iconoclast was for a unified Indian Culture not for this anti national ethos, which craves for a daily bread as if that is all that is needed for existence as a Human Being. Why are such questions not tackled, particularly by JH who happens to be in Cuddapa?CPB mentions that the schools had to be closed due to financial irregularities. What are the details? Committed by whom? And what action was taken? How can we authenticate a biography, which totally glosses over all such issues, and repeats his statement only of ‘I have started free schools”. JH had obviously NOT even bothered to know about how the British planned the destructive Engines at Haileybury.
Religious FeudsIn this very period - 1830 Sri. Narasimhareddy rose in a revolt as he and his father were made paupers overnight by taking away their Jagir fetching Rs.300000 per annum and giving a pension of 950Rsper annum. He fought the British with the help offered by Muslims. A major event like this shows a total absence of "Religious feuds". How then did JH add religious feuds? Similarly, a keen look into the Macdonald murder case also indicates a plot by Bishop Havell, or his followers to create a Muslim -Hindu feud by putting a pork piece in a masjid. It backfired, as the Muslims smelt the mischief and instead of gunning for the Hindus went after the missionaries. Does it show religious feuds?Thus even when there is not an iota of proof for caste or religious dissensions, authors make the innuendoes doing tremendous disservice to the society and the nation. TODAY’S society is more caste ridden due to politicians and careless writers like JH and the media. In 90% of villages today the caste is only seen in voting pattern and not in day-to-day living. In fact the Brahmin is the fugitive and there is hardly existing except in the school registers, which are actually perpetuating more to harass than help!
Blind belief (Mudha nammakam)This is another idea injected by JH. I wonder what he means by “blind belief” except throwing in words for a negative picture of the society. CPB boasts of his Sabbath. Was it not blind belief? This son of a Christian Missionary was in fear of being jailed and was giving alms to Fakirs to save himself from imprisonment. Is it not blind belief?Is a virgin birth not a blind belief?Is Immaculate Conception not a blind belief?That each one of us is a sinner is not a blind belief?We rise on a judgement day from the grave is a logical belief? All of us we are sinners at birth is a fine concept?How irresponsible of the author to throw such unthinking epithets at the society that was devastated and thrown into abject poverty by the British.
Ignorance everywhereJH makes a statement "Ignorance was everywhere" while he has NO evidence to say so except the scores of times that CPB stated. Is it not the duty of the writer to know that in 1821 in a survey by Collector's it was known that every village in Madras had a school? And everybody was going to a school for 5 years minimum? And that the British destroyed the entire education system by reducing the revenue accruing to the Villages to run Schools and by a land revenue system which was considered the most tyrannical in the entire world? Did JH know that there were books being written in 52 different subjects? That there were 8 libraries in that general area? What sort of ignorance is talked of? And on what authority? {Dr. Salwa Krishnamurty asked me to attach a list of the 52 subjects on which books were written. These are therefore given below in this edition-}
Slave trade This is another epithet that JH used that in the British ruled parts of India “Slave trade” was abounding. It is a most irresponsible statement in connection with the Indian society in Andhra. This misleads the reader of today giving him an idea of a highly degraded society. But JH is least bothered about the Truth. The Truth is it is the British in India who were engaged in this nefarious, shameful practice exploiting the poverty-ridden society having themselves generates the poverty. This slave trading of missions etc was indulged in by the British only and NOT in the rest. K.V. Rao mentioned that in CALCUTTA the British were indulging in the practice of buying or selling slaves openly through advertisements in papers!
There is also mention of children caught in villages and brought to Calcutta in boats to be sold. He also mentioned of each Briton keeping an illegitimate family – obviously bought women confined to the outhouse. There is a description, how these women leave the bedrooms in the morning etc. This is the heinous practice by the colonialists trading in human FLESH. There is also a further mention of illegitimate children. THIS is the slave trade with a capital S and Dr Sastry despite the fact that he bases his book on Dr Rao’s attributes this heinous trade to Andhras. He should make an open apology for this great distortion of fact. CPB’S Stature JH repeats Bangorey “in these days, Brown College might have been called a University!” What an abominable idea! The building in which CPB lived only a year, was hired out from 1830 onwards. There were not even 8 or 9 people including the mali working at any time. CPB never even visited the place after leaving it in Feb 1829 for TRICHINOPOLY. It was for sale but no buyers were found. All details are also known to JH. How then can he repeat this statement! Why does he insult our UNIVERSITIES, which sprawl in over 2-300 acres; with 3-4000 students and upward of 300 teachers?
Some awkward financial questionsJ H says that CPB’s colleagues were corrupt, money minded and immoral and CPB alone was honest, selfless, and service oriented like his father a philanthropist who died poor etc. Every word in this statement is wrong, and not substantiated by any evidence. Yet CPB was the one later suspended, and he was the one who contracted 60000Rs. debts, and bordered on being jailed. ! Why are the suspension orders being glossed over by the biographers? Sastry adds that, “Since from the beginning, he was straightforward”… How can such blatantly unfounded statements he made and on what authority? He was suspended and was never sent to Andhra.
PoemsFrom page 62 to 70 there are 25 poems. They are all in praise of Brown and show the writers’ cringing, crawling and grovelling behaviour. Most of them probably did not have any idea as to CPB’s rank or position since they call him a ‘king ‘a maharaja’ an emperor etc. It is unfortunately an indication of the level to which even reasonably intelligent people have fallen. It is not so much an indication of Brown’s greatness, but an indication of the fallen culture of Andhra poets of this “court”. These decadent Pundits who lost their self respect to be called Poets is an insult to the world of Poesy of Andhra which produced a Potana who scoffed at a kings patronage saying he will not sell his Kavya kanya to a Karnata Kirata; they are an insult to the name of a Srinatha who could say, even on death bed, that his arrival in heaven will make the Poet of the Gods worry. Similarly another lot of poems, 15 of them, collected by CPB, (some) show total lack of propriety, cheap in diction, and are lascivious and crude. DAVID BROWN – A Maha Pundit? A Social Worker?The books says, David Brown was a Pundit in Greek / Latin and was ingrained in Social Services from student days. This is a blatant lie. See DB’s life in brief; a son of a farmer, with no educational qualification, unemployed gets ordained, married maintains his wife with loans from friends to feed. The author skips over all these facts - Why?So WHERE AND WHEN DID HE get ingrained with motives of SOCIAL SERVICE? Why is it felt necessary by the biographer to extol D. B.? Who was one amongst thousands of such people with hardly any qualifications who came as to India, to mint money, to loot and scoot? Let us see some venerable priests, for ex: “one chaplain, Mr Blamshard, after a service of a little more than 20 years, carried home a fortune of 50000 pounds”. Another, “Mr Johnson, after 13 years of service, took with him from CALCUTTA 35000Pounds”and a third, Mr OWEN at the end of ten years, had amassed 25000Pounds.” Remember they all came to convert the natives, the idolaters, the sinners, and the uncultured Indians! So the social service motivation is sheer bunk and utter nonsense. It is a tragedy that our writers do not bother to analyse anything, before printing this rubbish. These facts are so thoroughly obfuscated, that I am certain not one Andhra knows that the loot by chaplains was in crores of Rupees. Could the Guntur Famine take place if all this wealth was not looted? Probably the Muslims were angels compared to this scum. The fact that none of his five children went to any school at any age is covered up by vague statements that they learnt at home etc. It is on death of Brown that they went to England. That CPB could not do well even at the age of 23years in the Madras College is proof of lack of early education, absolute mediocrity or even dullness, as spotted by Caldwell. The book abounds with unacceptable statements like”” David Brown died of ill health due to work without any rest”. Who said that? What for are these thrown in? What sort of overwork is meant, under what evidence? When he was removed from the job of a marshal he appeals for retaining the job without pay and yet he was not employed. That is overwork? All these misstatements are capped with’ his pay was spent on guests!!’ What sort of an image does the author want to generate? Build up a personality cult to show that later he was a pauper because of his generosity? Or is it to cover the fact that the family needed money to travel? Or that his job of 23 years is nothing much to write home about? Did they not know that for every marriage performed a chaplain gets money besides pay? JH writes that DB’s death caused a lot of pain to the people as he had got a lot of good will. What is the source and truth behind such statements? DB hardly had any such appointments that could generate goodwill of the people, his chaplain ship was stopped and he was removed from Marshal’s appointment. He left little money. Where then is the need to build up DB ‘s admirers etc?? As a father of a great guy CPB?? KONDUR CHIDAMBARAM of Mogallur donated one cartful of books to CPB Karnool Rangareddy – a great library. Raghavachari of Vallapadu – a big library. Gajeiella Reddy of Cuddapah – a big library. Chincholi Appanacharyulu – a big library. Cuddapah Gudipadu in Lakshmipati – good library.CPB purchased the libraries of several individuals at cheap rates:1830 Machilipatam Koti Venkanna's wife sold a whole library for 370/=1834 Yanam, Majeti Sarvesalinga library 150/=Peddapuram Avasarala Venkatrao 796/=Yet JH has the temerity to say that CPB spent a fortune on books. CPB was a hard-shell Christian observing Sabbath days strictly. He translated Bible – The Gospel of St. Luke etc. He never at any time expressed his regard for Hindu scriptures. Regarding Vemana also, he did not say anything regarding his Vedanta and said Vemana belonged to Jangam sect.Dr. Ratnakaram Balaraju, a note scholar of numerous books writes – “Having been subjected to foreign rule (ruled by Arabs, Muslims, Moguls and the English etc. for more than 700 years) Hindus lost their national identity and have become slavish minded. Even now they are not free from that (darkness – delusion) servile mentality. They are almost denationalised (Atma vismruti). They have abandoned the spiritual achievements of their forefathers and began to ape the English manners and their way of life”. Dr. Krishnadhan Ghose, Sri Aurobindo’s father may be taken as a typical example in this regard. He became an atheist and wanted to make his children Europeanized. He decided to give all his children a thoroughly English education and sent them to England. Sri. Aurobindo was only seven years of age when Dr. Ghose had given strict instructions to Mr. Drewett no to allow his sons to mix with Indians or to know anything about the Indian way of life. Such was the degeneration of Hindus and Indians then and they believed that English character was ideal. All the Europeans who came to India and professed loving service to India and her culture had actually spiteful tendencies in their heart of hearts. They wanted to convert India into a Christian country. They are still at it.Lord Macaulay in a letter dated 12th October 1836, Macaulay wrote: “Our English Schools are flourishing wonderfully. If our plans of Education are followed up there will not be a single idolater (Hindu) among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence”. Western Education was introduced in India after Macaulay’s minutes on Education (1835) had come as a corollary to the policy of admitting Indians to the administration under the charter Act of 1833. Macaulay believed that English Education was sure to destroy the faith of young students in their past. He therefore strongly recommended the introduction of English Education. Macaulay’s imperialistic dreams were never fulfilled. In the same year 1836, the same Bengal Province produced Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1836-1886) who not only enlivened Hinduism in Bengal and India but also spread it in Macaulay’s west.Max Muller: Suggested that the followers of Pratap Chandra Mazumdar should call themselves Christians He wrote to Dr. Milan (1867 Feb 26) “India is ripe for Christianity’. He wrote to Duke of Argyll!! India must be conquered again by Education… Hinduism is doomed”.In that situation, JH says that CPB appears to have collected 36 Puranas / itihasas. As a responsible writer, working for resurrection of CPB is it not time to avoid vague inanities like’ ‘appears to have’. CPB got Vasucharitra printed in 1844 and Manuchartra in 1851, Harischandropakhyanam (1842), Vyjayantivalasa (1849), while they were ready about 15 years earlier in Kadapa! Where were they all these long years? By this time Printing Presses were quite active. Kalapurnodayam, Tara sasanka Vijayam, Vijaya vilasam; Kuchelopakhyanam (4) when were they published? Even today no one knows or speaks about them. Even Rao say, Bhagavatam seems to have been printed through him or words to that effect. Is it being responsible? Someone writes that “It is no exaggeration in saying that there is no old Kavyam in Telugu literature on which Brown’s stamp is note there.” This is a PREPOSTEROUS lie and sheer slavery to degrade our literature, which is so vast. It is an insult to the Vavillas, and a host of other publishers. JH says that CPB used to donate up to 500/Rs. This is a lie. At that point of time CPB’s monthly pay itself was around 600Rs. It misleads the public because that CPB gave to the beggars when he was scared of imprisonment at one stage and it was due to sheer superstition that the charity may help him that he gave alms to Fakirs. JH has put in the biggest lie in this book by saying in P. 42, that he took 60,000/= loans for collection of books and to look after the Pundits. This is an unacceptable, blatant lie, unsubstantiated any where by anyone else. This fib must and should be expunged from the book. The debt was contacted by CPB who was returning it at the rate of 2000 per month. He himself said in 1844 that his total expenditure on this hobby was 30000/at one place. (20000 / in his appeal against suspension) It was G N Reddy who increased the figure to 40000/ in an article in 1954. AND NOW SHASTRIJI makes it 60000/= Can the authors mislead the readers with impunity like this without making even elementary calculations? The least they should try to investigate is as to who gave so much loan and on what security. Remember HAIG delayed paying even 250/- for the Tent till he got from the EIC? JH also says that CPB was a Pundit in 24 languages, which is another blatant LIE. Considering all the material that we got so far his acquaintance with even 8 languages is difficult to prove. Remember CPB himself says he started learning Bengali at 30yrs of age! Sastry writes, - By 1826 his Salary was 525/= Plus allowances. He used to take loan from someone to return the loan of some other. The salary not being sufficient he used to borrow for literary work. These unproved lies cannot be accepted. By this time he had NO LITERARY activity whatever, Vemana and Grammar were on the cards, both published by the EIC. Can JH quote any one single text, any one writer prior to 1826 working for CPB in Cuddapa?JH says “in order not to have any hold up in literary work and to ensure it to proceed smoothly, he brought a Bungalow in Cuddapah. “In this Bungalow, is One corner Room a little literary Factory was working; Pundits with Palm leaf Mss in front of them, making better copies and writing Vyakhyanas …”. This is a ridiculously skewed image altogether there were only 7 people of Cuddapah and nearby working here. That too the activities were at a stand stile from 1830 within 11/2 yrs of purchase of this Karmagaram. HE also conveniently forgets that there were 6 more such bungalows and even getting some one to rent out was a problem as per KR’S letter in 1830.To sum up, I cannot but say that the book repeats all the lies in the original biography, and such irresponsible writings should be stopped and discouraged in the interest of our great literature.

C P Brown: Commentaries on Magazines

27. Commentaries on Magazines

C P Brown Memorial Library Brochure Writers 8th Meeting of CPB in Dec 1981

This is a magazine, containing over 20 articles on CPB.

In the inaugural lecture Sri S. Chellappa IAS made original points of great value. They are:

1. Increase of the importance of Nannayya should be not by belittling Telugu and saying that it had little vocabulary, but by bringing out his positive contribution.

2. Writers are the people who light the culture of the people and the world, which moves along for ages to the goals shown in that light. {This is a profound concept, covered in chapter on Language and Culture in this book}

3. For a cheap name and fame if you write swerving from Dharma it is not you but the society, which gets damaged, and you will be cursed by the future. [This is the very reason for this book]

4. You need not give all that the society demands but should give them great truths with new ideas and new styles as they are the life breath of a society.
The biographers, who had extolled Brown at the cost of the Andhra literature, should note these points brilliantly expressed by SC.

Arudra in his article makes an unfounded statement that the development of Telugu literature today is due to CPB, that CPB was trained in methods of research at a young age, which is sheer bunkum. It is contrary to CPB’s own statement that he did not learn anything in the colleges both in England as well as in Madras.

Some writers made unsubstantiated statements that the Telugu literature, which was floating in the skies, was brought down for a. number of people to be able to write. This debate of Vyavaharika Vs Grandhika is pointless without regard to the ultimate ends of cultural developments of a nation and its goals. In the GOML there are scores of works of that period using vyavaharika. It was CPB, who subtly injected this poison, which the communists today want to exploit by talking about commoners Vs learned. This debate was non-existent then.

Some wrote that all the books printed 1841 onwards were prepared by CPB. This is not proved and is a ghastly statement, which is totally off mark. How can any responsible writer make such a false statement? Out of over 1800 books that would have been published by now, not even 30 are the ones got ready by CPB, if at all.

Arudra says, for the last 1-½ centuries we have not printed what CPB and McKenjee brought together. Arudra should have been asked if he donated any money to print even one? Or at least honestly approached any one to sponsor publication?

Some writer says that CPB ‘Lived for about thirty years in London spending his whole life for service to Telugu’. They do not quote even one article, one pound donated, one book sponsored by him in over 30years of his Long Life. All writers keep writing such pointless, and slavish eulogies merely to boost up the image of CPB who himself wrote that he was not even visiting the Asiatic society in London.

Here is another author who does not bother contradicting himself. He states that the innumerable books published by Vavilla Publishers were all done by CPB’s research and correction. This is a blatant lie and he should have been sued by the Vavilla for defaming them through such rude comment on VAVILLA’s service to the literature.

Till 22nd October 1825 when CPB was transferred to Masulipatam he did not go near Telugu learning from his gurus but in his police office. He arrogantly wanted to learn only the spoken language and disliked pedantry, and that street vendors, dhobis etc were his teachers of the Telugu language. Imagine the double standards of all these writers, because not a single writer wrote accha Telugu at all. But this author states that CPB studied without any rest day and night to master the language and then worked for the upliftment and rejuvenation of Telugu literature. This is totally at variance to CPB’s own statements, that he spent his life in parties, wine and women, incurring 60000Rs in loans. He also had a suspension problem and was thrown out. Not even one of the writers brings out the fact that CPB never touched Andhra after 1834.

The article by Kala Prapoorna N. Venkata Rao, starts with the usual praise of Brown. Before writing about the writers who sweated their life, an indictment of Brown is made in a most poignant statement, in one paragraph, which I translate:
Quote “Till now we have been only looking at Brown’s efforts but not at those Telugu Pundits who were responsible for CPB’s fame. We have forgotten in individuals’ days under unbearable poverty, large families as a burden they lived like beggars. The applications they used to send bring tears to our eyes, living like college Munshis, Writers, Peons, Copyists, and Poor Pundits they put all their knowledge like ghee in a Yajna (sacrificial fire) called Brown. Their lives were not like those of poets but only of the forgotten day labourers. They died like obscure people.
The amount of writing we spend for the foreigner Brown and his fame while totally ignoring these our Pundits is strange indeed. I therefore would like to get their names in”, unquote - Translation over.

I have stated that Brown never mentioned with gratitude “any writer’s name”. This seems to be an unwritten law with the colonialists. No one ever mentioned the hundreds of pundits, hundreds of times more erudite than them, who sweated their lives out for a pittance of pay and died without a mention of their names by these callous colonialists.

Most unfortunately, this ungrateful nation still pays homage to those swindlers, and scoundrels due to the disease called psychological bondage, which is perpetuated due to conversions, communism and aberrations of pseudo secularism. We are continuously destroying self-esteem in younger generations.

A slight digression to bring out the prevailing atmosphere between 1800-1850 regarding Sanskrit, Missionaries, and sincere lovers of Indian Culture is worth it. Lt. Col. Boden founded the Boden Chair in the University of Oxford. He stated in his will (Dated August 15, 1811) that the special object of his munificent bequest was to promote the translation of the Scriptures into Sanskrit, so as ‘to enable his countrymen to proceed in the conversion of the natives of India to the Christian Religion’, look at the dastardly motive.

The second occupant of the chair was Sir. Monier Monier Williams. Some of his critics expressed surprise as to his practical researches carried on with the Pandits of India, in India in their own country. Williams acknowledged the vast superior scholarship of Indian Pundits shooting down the claims of all the so-called Western scholars. His statement is worth reproducing.

“At all events let any one who claims a reputation for superior scholarship on that sole ground associate with Indian Pandits in their own country and he will find out that far severer, proofs of his knowledge and acquirements will be required of him there”.

Sir. Thomas Munroe also made a similar statement about the scholarship of the “natives”.
In an article, Sri. V. Venkatappayya brings out the publication of so many earlier dictionaries as follows”

1. Tamil – Portuguese in 1679.
2. Oriental Language Dictionary which includes Telugu, Sanskrit, Marathi, Kanadiga and Hindi, in 1782
3. Four Telugu books published in Germany, in 1742-46.
4. Amara Kosham with twelve languages in 1809.
5. William Brown in 1837.

Most of Dictionaries were basically for usage of English in day today work by the English. I am surprised that the biographers are not even ashamed to give so much credit to CPB for what was so common in those days, as the coloniser always wanted to communicate at the lowest possible level to recruit people, sepoys, workers, barbers, cooks, sweepers, clerks, pimps, concubines, malis, bearers, syces, and the like and not for literary pursuits. In view of this there is nothing spectacular in the Dictionaries of Brown getting published. Yet the biographers write as if it was a monumental original work. Dr. R. Balaraju of Anantapur made a valid points for research after reading the first edition of the book, he says,

It is however strange that Venkatappayya feels that the efforts at learning languages was made by the French or British etc to stay permanently in India. Whether the author knew or, there was indeed an idea of that nature at one time in the 1800-1820 period to COLONISE INDIA as in South Africa. But the board of directors, and a number of others nipped the idea in the bud due to weather, and diseases.

One-writer makes a pointless statement that while in England CPB on forced furlough “Restlessly struggled for Telugu”. What he did was that heaps of books, which were lying in the India House, were listed on the suggestion of Wilson. JH quotes Brahmaiah Sastri, and the whole pack of poor Pundits steeped in pathetic poverty with no place to go, who praise CPB to the skies. Has this got any real value? Let us recapitulate Bartrhari’s sloka that a hungry lion will not eat anything except its own natural food, while a hungry dog will keep on begging for food in a pathetic manner. It is sad but true that people living in all these areas were reduced to that stage. The Guntur famine proves it.

Let us take the case of Narasimha Reddy. His father was a jagirdhar, his jagir was taken away and a compensation of about a 1000th of income was fixed, no one revolted and the pension was accepted. When Narasimha Reddy fought and was killed by the Britishers, still no one revolted and even now Bangorey calls him a naxalite and not a freedom fighter.

The article by M. Narayana on Vemana apart from highlighting the poems leading for social transformation ends up with some poems, which highlight the stage to which the entire population had been dragged down.

My loose translations of these lines are:

Those who think they are from thigh castes or great pundits, become slaves before a person having gold because of poverty.
Even the greatest people become shamelessly subservient to the rich. “He only rules who has money”.
Vemana’s solution is to donate money constantly and let rich people give their daughters in marriage to poor people. These are simplistic.

The essence is that poverty degrades.

The Fame Brown bought by spending only the rents is a proof of this truism. It is unfortunate all the writers missed this point as to how little Brown spent and how much undeserved fame he bought.

I do not grudge the fame he thus got but the oblivion into which he pushed all the pundits and the insults he hurled at Telugu and its value is deplorable and horrendous. In short he and the biographers degraded all of us.

C P Brown : A Character Study

26. CPB – A CHARACTER STUDY

Service Record

CPB’s service was erratic with frequent stopgap postings. Due to poor college performance he was sent out compulsorily. His movements between 1829 and 1834, to so many places smacks of misdemeanours in his work, and cases do point to that.

Three of his decisions were countermanded, which show the possibility of bribery, which was very common. Ultimately CPB was dismissed, and the company refused to reinstate him.

Bangorey the biographer should bring out the charges, defence, prosecution, and verdict. Merely putting a couple of letters and saying it is for lawyers to go into is not sufficient. It is only hoodwinking the reader. I want to stress that the corruption of CPB who was in heavy debts, in such a short time is not to be lightly brushed under the carpet. ON top of it I am asked to believe that he spent all his life’s earnings for the service of my language. Why is the fact that he paid ONLY FROM RENTS to the pundits being totally ignored?

The biographers have no qualms in foisting the theory that he worked day and night for the literature. I notice that J H says “ CPB spent 60000Rs an equivalent of 3crores of rupees for Andhra Literature while we are not even giving a grant of a couple of lakhs!” The debt of 60000Rs, the dismissal, the reinstatement of Salt Daroga, the frequent postings, the innuendos of KR, the prohibition of postings on judicial or revenue jobs, the debarring of postings in Andhra areas, the reasons for his not coming to Cuddapah after leaving in 1829, though he was in this country for a full 25 years thereafter etc have all to be unambiguously looked into.

That he was dismissed is evident from the fact that he returned at the end of three years as a senior merchant and not as a civil servant. He was denied any pay or allowances, which is obviously a punishment, but, on a second appeal an allowance of 500 Pounds an year was granted which is about a quarter of what could have been his due .It is also worthwhile looking into if the pension fixed for him was the normal pension or for only the later half of service.

Heavy Debts

Due to debts of up to 60,000Rs, he was mentally worried all the time. He even feared imprisonment at this stage. He also showed an unstable superstitious behaviour of giving alms to fakirs etc! Why do the biographers not get at the truth of the matter? What are the skeletons in his cupboard? The biographers constantly din into the reader’s mind that CPB was a great donor, and that he has spent a fortune, for the sake of Telugu literature. They base this for which except CPB’ s own statements there is no evidence what so ever. It is therefore essential to get down to the bottom of this sordid story, which CPB naturally avoids, but why should the biographers avoid it? And why should they put me, the poor, gullible Andhra in the dark? And ask me to garland this fraud?

Repayment?

CPB says he was paying at the rate of 2000Rs a month. That takes 30 months. If so from when did he start paying back? What was his pay then? How long did he take to repay? What are the stations he was in? Let us link this up to the fact that he asks Krishna Reddy to send 40 Rupees back in a Hundi!

Stealing books, material

He never acknowledged any author whose works he followed / adopted. He has no good
comment or appreciation for any individual he came in contact with. None of his books was an original book; there was always somebody’s dictionary, somebody’s grammar available. Even Vemana’s poems were from a French original.

A character study

The biographers gloss over all his blemishes to project CPB as a cult figure born to an ideal father. If they present him simply as a gatherer of Mss there would have been no argument. But the problem is they want to present him as a lover of the language, of the land, of democratic temper, religious tolerance, and philanthropy, large heartedness, indefatigable energy, etc. All those are absolute unmitigated lies without an iota of Truth. The biographers conceal a lot of facts should be written in any serious biography. Some of these facts are given below:
1. After reaching England at the age of 14 he had no schooling. Why?
2. Morris was mastering languages and earning rewards. What was CPB doing – writing insipid poems only one of which survived?
3. In Cuddapah, in the first posting itself he seems to have had affairs and run in to debts. His love life in Cuddapah may be the reason for debts?
4. Case of Gavar Raju (GR) who was reinstated needs to be dug out. We should note that CPB was in heavy debts. Did GR refuse to give enough slush? Are his poets quiet contacts? With corrupt tradesman?
5. Case of the Amin, who was reinstated, needs a study.
6. An extraordinarily heavy loan of 60,000Rs. Equivalent to Rupees 3crores in today’s value for a second grade officer with hardly 10 years of service looks abnormal? Considering that he left Cuddapah, where he had debts, and spent one year in Tiruchinopoly it is essential to know when and how he contracted these heavy loans, from whom, for what purpose, against what security were the loans given? In what manner? Cash? Gold? Merely ignoring the case does not help, as the biographers want us to worship him for spending all this money for literature!
7. His dismissal is not as simple as is presented. Why did Bangorey drop the study of the event like a hot cake?
8. Why was he debarred from being posted to judicial and Administrative posts, which involve access to slush money? KR was advising him for such posts.
9. Even as a P.M.G. there were allegations.
10. There is not one single word from anyone having appreciated his work in any place, in his Life Time or in the century after his demise. How is it Rao and co find him so great?
11. Caldwell had highly derogatory remarks about him, which the biographers ignore. Why don’t they analyse or contradict Caldwell?
12. Taylor says outright that CPB tried to swindle the EIC, regarding Mss.
13. A number of CPB’s statements are lies: for example: a. That he spent 30,000 on books. b. That all 2440 Mss. he gave were his own.
c. That he had a collection of 5000 books.
d. His proselytising activities are totally concealed.

Bangorey states that the files relating to suspension run into several hundreds of pages. Does it mean a criminal can be let off when they want to project a total liar that he spent all his Life for literary service? See the timings. CPB goes to GUNTUR as Acting Collector on 22 Dec1832, his letter of 18 Dec32 reached the court at Fort St. George. Apparently the case, leading to suspension started on 26 Nov 32 when CPB wrote a letter which was sent to Fort St George by I G Parker, with his comment refuting CPB.

Sir,
I have the honour to request that the Court will have the goodness to give me directions in what manner to bring three men to trial for forgery and perjury under the following circumstances. I have the honour to be, Sir, C.P. Brown, Joint Criminal Judge.

26th Nov 1832 letter of CPB was forwarded by PASKE disagreeing with CPB.

On this subject he was dismissed – What is the detailed case?

Purchases of Manuscripts

Most Essential point in the timings is: If his collection spree started in Aug 1828 and ends in Nov 32 a matter of 4 years when did he spend 30000/= on Mss? What are they? How many? From where?

Parties

He talks of his parties as lavish as those of a governor! Who are the participants? Venues? Expenditures? Where from did the money come? Why is it NOT even one name of friends etc. mentioned anywhere? He seems to have covered his tracks extremely cleverly. Fear of getting truth clearer? In their eagerness to surpass each other in showering encomiums, the authors are forgetting or deliberately ignoring the way the British lived in India, sample these facts:
“ One hundred and ten servants to wait upon a family of 4 people.
“I am assured on evidence that the condition of slaves within our jurisdiction is beyond imagination, deplorable and … the cruelties. On the weaker sex.”

In this connection of accepting CPB ‘s own statement, that he spent all his earnings for the Language, has the author paused at just one fact that has come to light by Browns own statement.

He owed 60,000 Rs and was paying at the rate of 2000 per month. Correlate this with the fact that a chaplain’s pay PER YEAR was 10000Rs; CPB’s debt was an equivalent of six YEARS pay of his late father?

All in all CPB was a shady operator.

C P Brown: CPB on Himself

25. C P BROWN ON HIMSELF

There are three versions of CPB’s autobiography, dated 1854, 1866, and 1872. Bangorey’s book ‘Literary Autobiography of CP Brown’ brings out the differences between the 1854 and 1866 versions. Before going through the encomiums heaped on CPB by the biographers, I feel it better that the readers know what CPB himself had to say about himself. He is highly critical of all his colleagues and that is why the board in Madras in 1854 did not print the 1854 version having themselves asked him to write. All that is written below is from CPB’s own utterances as the biographers themselves wrote.

Quote.
"As a child I learnt a little Persian, Hebrew, and Syriac.
In England I had only six months schooling, in which I learnt nothing. I was a reluctant student and made a poor progress giving my leisure hours to Hunting, shooting, and dancing.
At Hailey bury College ……I learnt little.
In the year 1820 the College Examiners declared that I had learnt nothing and must quit because we were not allowed to remain for more than three years.

My earliest publications were recommended for the patronage. But Sir Thomas Munroe was dead, and I was refused any reward. No remuneration was granted me for any work, but were bestowed on others who never did anything extraordinary.

I procured and interleaved a copy of Campbell’s Telugu English Dictionary.
Mr. Morris had no skill in Telugu; he merely lent his name to a volume, which Like Campbell’s Dictionary was entirely the work of native assistants.

Meanwhile unhappily I committed several illegal acts. I became more and more extravagant.
Year 1828 A.D. J.C. Morris was engaged in printing the English Teloogoo Dictionary.

When I returned from England in 1838 Campbell got me placed as a member of the College Board in SEP.I let him know that I had prepared a new Telugu grammar. He looked upon it as a puny effort. Morris bluntly replied that he never would take a step in approving it but he was prevented from condemning my book solely by reason, that I was now a member of the College Board.

Being now in comfortable circumstances I often had ladies parties, thought lavish. I removed into a large house, I soon adorned it with a noble gallery of marble statues and seventy oil paintings, chiefly English, Dutch, and Italian landscapes I had two carriages six horses my table was more splendid than that of the Governor.

I have been considered somewhat insane, and such has been my own impression.
During the last six years usual letter, inviting me to resign service .On 1 May 54 I resigned and June 55 left for England.My books, about 5000 volumes of Latin, English, and French are a drag in Madras. The learned ones went for less than a shilling a volume. A Telugu translation of the Bible was completed by persons I employed and paid.

As an author I began by printing two books, which were considered too difficult I therefore printed some explanatory volumes, which they condemned as vulgar, then I published some popular poems, which were derided as idolatrous, then I published Christian tracts, which they said is forbidden to Government servants.

In 1816 Mamidi Venkayya completed his Andhra Depika, a lexicon of the poetical dialect, government rewarded him with 3500Rs. printed by Campbell in 1821 in his own name. Campbell was rewarded 14000Rs for his work besides all expenses. Morris also received 1750 for his juvenile production.

In 1825Adaki Subba Rao began to write an English Telugu dictionary, for which Morris got 15000Rs but completed only in 1836.

Campbell and Morris had but a slender acquaintance with Telugu.
Carey of Serampore has written a TELINGA grammar.

In 1816 A D Campbell published his Telugu grammar.Since my grammar was printed in 1840…I Revised it reinstating rules which I condemned!

AT THE CLOSE OF MY LIFE I CANNOT NAME TWO ENGLISHMAN WHO CAN EXPLAIN AN ORDINARY NEWSPAPER OR LETTER WRITTEN IN TELUGU.

As I draw close to 60th year I kept acquaintance with very few Indian folk, and keep my distance from the Oriental club and Asiatic society. Unquote.

Look at CPB’s words about hunting, shooting, and dancing coupled with the 60,000 rupees debts, which he paid 2000 rupees per month etc. It is a clear indication of his drinking and debauchery.

The horror is one biographer even goes to the extent of saying that being young he indulged himself. CPB wants to glorify himself saying he had “Often had ladies parties and was thought lavish and careless of money and his parties were like that of a governor.” In spite of all this womanising, dancing and wine the biographers have the audacity to hood wink and bluff the Andhras that he spent all his Life and earnings on service for the dying Telugu literature.

Of all the lies by the biographers, the one by Bangorey that CPB spent all his Life in being acquainted with Telugu talks the cake since CPB himself says, “I have acquaintance with few Indian folk, and keep my distance from the oriental club and the Asiatic Society”!!

C P Brown: Bishop Caldwell on CPB

24. Bishop Caldwell on CPB


BISHOP CALDWELL and CPB travelled together in ‘Mary ANN’, to India, in 1837. Caldwell was highly educated, and was travelling for the first time. CPB was returning after his forced furlough. Initially, Caldwell looked up to CPB with some veneration, which vanished as time went by. Verbatim extracts of Caldwell’s study of CPB’s personality, contained in ‘the literary autobiography’ by Bangorey are given below:

QUOTE
“The amount of Sanskrit I learnt {from CPB} was not much”
“His judgement always could not be relied up on”
“Their father was educating them… to be filled to… ministry in India but none of them entered the church…”
“Both pedantic and eccentric he is beyond doubt”
“It he had been educated in the company of real learning…. His love of display would have been checked”
“Would have been cut down to an agreeable companionship and a useful member of society”
“Being chiefly among those whom he could lord it like a “Triton among the minnows”
“Mental character swelled … weeds of pedantry, … education improperly conducted…”
“There he is, tying his ear to no tongue but to his own”
“I was often talked dead”
“The result of a desire to strike and shine”
“Quotations from classics very often they were not applicable at all…”
“He had not made a better selection… for he neglected the valuable and chosen the worthless; to have thrown away the kernel and treasure up the shell”
“For instance he has read little of the Greek tragedians and historians but only anthologies”
“In Latin only a few books of Livin and Tacitus…”
“In English History he knows little”
“His knowledge of HINDOOISM and classical Sanskrit is inferior to that of many…”
“That young man has a large appetite for learning but small digestion”
“For his learning seems to be an ocean of remembrances, on the surface of which he floats up and down, like a ship without a rudder; a mighty tumulus of gold, silver and precious, stones, wood, hay and stubble, under which judgement lies buried; a caput. Mortnum of quotations: an encyclopaedia of useless knowledge and books that nobody ever read; an antiquarian’s catalogue.”

3. “Those opinions about Indian meanness, character, religion…I can scarce venture to trust him as he changed hands… his statements are all chameleons”.

“One result of this desire to shine is pedantry, another is scepticism, and of this morbid intellect, Mr. Brown has his full share. He reaches the undesirable proficiency of.
Those Athenian sceptic owls
Who will not credit their own souls?
But measuring all things by their own
Knowledge, hold nothing to be known.

“Scarcely anything can be uttered however truth-like or reasonable, but having three times shook his head to stir his wit up, having whined as if in deep anguish, having them uttered a prefatory: “Oh! No!” he launches an assault upon the poor trembling opinion and asserts that it does not deserve to be believed “Oh! No!” Is any meaning attached to any word, in any application, in any classic?”

“He seems to have a sincere, thorough, and well-grounded belief in Christianity as a system, and a very low opinion, I may say a contempt, of Hindooism; not a surprising thing after all when his education is kept in mind; he was once intimate with Buchanan, Martyn, Thomason and the missionaries of Serampore”.

“He astonishes me with the extent of his ideological reading and truth like aspect of his views on the spread of Christianity in India - on the obstacles to be encountered and the means to be used, as well as on the likelihood of success in spreading it”.

“I have never met his parallel for thoughtlessness, snappish dogmatism, credulity, and inability to string three sentences together logically. In these respects "none but himself can be his parallel”.

“If I have any chance at all of being talked to death, it is neither by infidels nor by radicals but by my restless Pundit, Mr. Brown”.

In spite of this devastating study of the person, our Andhra Historians of Rao, Bangorey and JHS write glorifying some of the phrases Let me put together of Caldwell, “Quotations which were not applicable, read only Greek anthologies, he knows little English History, encyclopaedia of useless knowledge, low opinion, contempt of Hindoism, thoughtlessness, inability to string three sentences together” this specimen of a CPB!!

C P Brown: Hailebury College in England

23. Hailebury College in England


Bangorey gathered substantial material but unfortunately did not analyse it properly, because he was psychologically conditioner and prejudiced against the society in which he was living for whatever reasons they be. He missed so many vital deductions; one such is about the Hailebury College as a ‘Conditioning’ factory to produce ‘Writers’ for the EIC with a core personality of WHITE supremacy. We used to hear as school children in ’30s / ’40s a slogan that the battlefields in Europe were won in the playing fields of EATON or like that insipid statements.

It will be of interest to get all the people trained in this college and scrutinise if even ONE just one admirer of Indian composite culture was produced!! Another fact to be highlighted is that most of the “Seats in this College” were bought a British practice now in vogue in India where Engineering / Medical seats are sold for lakhs of Rupees.

Orientalists, like Colebrook, Wilkins, Wellford, and Wilson who carried on the study of Sanskrit literature or like Brahmins, if anything. Wilkins told Mr. Brown that “He thought in another century Christianity would be worn out”. Wilson, The Sanskrit Professor in Oxford advised an official to use his influence in favour of Hinduism. These five people and a host of others, who stayed prior to 1820, were mostly better informed about Hindu religion. We shall see, Munroe one of the very staunch orientalists. These Orientalists, occupying pivotal positions were touching everything with a golden bough and had some sympathy for the people of this country being robbed / deprived.

London administrators clearly saw a danger of Indianisation of the British youth. They planned to shift the student orientation from the Orientalists to those of Cambridge clergymen to train the boys well in England before sending them off to India. Hastily, an East India College was started in the Hertford shire palace. As it was necessary to play down and create civil servants by indoctrination with the British, Socio-Political Values before being sent to India. Part of their colonial and political duties was unstinting loyalty to the British aims of domination over their colonial possession. They did not want the Indianised Orientalists to be in positions of influence anywhere. Thus this college was established in 1805. There was also a “ To convert or Not to convert” debate going on.

Apart from having been trained with an anti Orientalsist mentality. CPB as a son of a clergyman had been imbued with a missionary zeal, which was inherently and intrinsically inimical to Hinduism itself. The books etc. at Hailey bury College will show how thoroughly the subjects were taught with methods of looking down on all Indian matters. It is this attitude, which makes CPB start with the heinous statement “ I found, Telugu language about to die”, without even knowing Telugu well.