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 menced only a few years ago. There is greater intensity of purpose among the Telugus than among the Tamils. English has acquired such a hold of the literary class among the Tamils that they have not the energy even to conduct their proceedings in Tamil, The English language has not affected the Telugus to that extent. They therefore, make greater use of Telugu. They are not only making an attempt to make Telugu the medium of instruction ; they are heading a move- ment to repartition India on a linguistic basis. AnA though the propagation of this idea was commenced only recently, the work is being handled with so much energy that they are likely to see results within a short time. There are many rocks in their way. But the leaders of the movement have impressed me with their ability to break them down.

In the Deccan the movement goes ahead. That good soul Prof. Karve is the leader of the movement. Mr. Naik is working in the same direction. Private institu- tions are engaged in the experiment. Prof. Bijapurkar, has, after great labour, succeeded in reviving his experi- ment and we shall see it in a short tme crystallised into a school. He had devised a scheme for preparing text-books. Some have been printed and some are ready for print. The teachers in that institution never bet- rayed want of faith in their cause. Had the institution not been closed down, so far as Marathi is concerned the question of imparting all instruction through It would have been solved.

We learn from an article in a local magazine by Rao Bahadur Hargovindas Kantawala that a movement for making Gujarati the medium of instruction has already been made in Gujarat, Prof. Gajjar and the late Diwan

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