Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu (1812–1891) was a Telugu Pundit and owner of the Telugu publishing house Saraswati Mudralayamu, which was later renamed
Vavilla Press. The Vavilla family in
Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...
secured a page in history as a premier publishing house owning a press.
Birth and childhood
Ramaswamy Sastrulu was born at Vavilla, a village near
Allur Allur or Alluru or Alloor or Allooru may refer to:
Places in India
*Alor, Bastar, a village in Kondagaon district, Chhattisgarh
* Allur, Gulbargha, a village in Kalaburagi district, Karnataka
* Alluru, Krishna District, a village in Krishna distric ...
,
Nellore District.
First printing press in Telugu
Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu started the Telugu press in 1854 in Chennai in a press named Hindu Bhasha Sanjeevini. Later he established Adi Saraswathi Nilayam. During his lifetime till 1891, he published about 50 important books in Telugu and Sanskrit languages. Even
C. P. Brown appreciated his efforts, stating: "In days when people had to read books written by hand, V.Ramaswamy Sastrulu relieved their difficulties by starting a printing press".
[Modern Indian literature, an anthology, Volume 3 By K. M. George, Sāhitya Akādemī] It was later handled by his son Vavilla Venkateswara Sastrulu, who improved it greatly, printing more than 900 books in Telugu, Tamil and English.
References
*Trilinga Rajatotsava Samputamu, sri vavilla venkateswara shastry. 1941, Vavilla Press.
External links
Vavilla press in The Great Indian patriots by P. Rajeshwar Rao.
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Telugu people
People from Nellore district
1812 births
1891 deaths
Indian publishers (people)
Businesspeople from Andhra Pradesh
19th-century Indian businesspeople