PROF. R.S. SARRAJU

Formerly Head of the Department of Hindi, and of the Center for Dalit, Adivasi and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, Prof. RS Sarraju was born on 20th September 1958 in Prathipadu, East Godavari, in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh.

After graduating from Osmania University, Hyderabad, he obtained his M.A. in Hindi language and literature from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. His thesis on “The Birth of Novel Literature in India; a comparative and sociological analysis” was awarded a Ph.D from Andhra University. Later he worked as a Research Associate, and started teaching Hindi language and literature at the post-graduate level. Subsequently he was appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Hindi, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam.

He joined UoH in 1996 and became Professor in 2008. Professor Sarraju has served in the Jawaharlal Nehru Cultural Centre, Embassy of India, Moscow on deputation and taught at the Moscow State University and Moscow State University of Humanities. He has also visited South Africa in 2012 and USA in 2017 and 2018.

Professor Sarraju specializes in the areas of Functional Hindi, Translation Studies and comparative Indian Literature. Recognizing his contributions to Hindi language and literature, he was awarded a certificate of merit by the Ministry of Human Resource Development [now Ministry of Education], Government of India in 1989. The government of Bihar conferred the prestigious Dr. George Grierson award in 2015.

He has published 8 books and more than 60 research papers. He has also translated from Hindi to Telugu and vice-versa, including a translation of science fiction of Mr. K. Sadasiva Rao I.P.S. from Telugu to Hindi and Mahesh Chandra Sharma’s Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay from Hindi to Telugu for the Government of India. Besides these, his more significant books include Bharatiya upanyas sahitya ki bhoomika (1986), Telugu kavya dhara mein adunikhatah bodh (1988), Bharatiya upanyas sahitya ka udhbav  (2005), Prayojan mulak Hindi: sthithi sandarbh aur prayukthi visleshan (2006), Aaj ki Hindi aur anuvad ki samasyayien (2007), Tulanatmak sodh aur samajsastreey bodh (Edited, 2016).

12 Research students have been awarded PhD and 23 students have been awarded MPhil under his guidance so far. 

He has served as a member of the Executive Council of Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtreey Hindi University, Wardha, and of the Kendriya Anudan Samiti of Central Hindi Directorate. More recently, Professor Sarraju has been nominated a member of the Hindi Advisory Committee, Ministry of Civil Aviation, and of the Hindi Advisory Committee, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.