About Department

The Department was established in November 2005. At present it has two Professors and one Associate Professor. The Department is offering P.G. (M.A. Kannada), Ph.D. programmes. The Department of Kannada Language and Translation Studies is the only one full-fledged Department which exists in Andhra Pradesh and also outside Karnataka.

The Department of Kannada Language and Translation Studies wants to achieve excellence both in teaching and research. It is the cherished goal of the Department to break new grounds by designing innovative techniques in teaching and research which are hardly attempted elsewhere, as most of the students joining the courses come from rural backgrounds and regional medium.

The uniqueness of this University is upheld by the Kannada Language and Translation Studies through its teaching and research programmes as well as publication works. The M.A. and Ph.D. programmes of this Department have Dravidian cultural content for which special core courses are being prepared.

Kannada study is no longer limited to traditional approaches. The curriculum includes Classical Literature, Prosody, Grammar, Indian and Western Poetics, Folklore, Dravidian Linguistics, Tribal Studies, Theatre, Textual Criticism, Literary Criticism, Epigraphy, Religion, Linguistics, Manuscriptology, Translation Studies, Dravidian Philosophy, Dravidian Literature, Dravidian Culture, Research Methodology, Cultural Studies, Women Studies, Area Studies, Ethnic Studies, Postmodernism and more.

The Department provides comparative perspectives of learning by juxtaposing, comparing and contrasting literatures across cultures and languages so that students are prepared for the present competitive world.

One of the main objectives of the Department is to orient students towards regional and local cultures by incorporating Dravidian writing in translations without affecting the conventional canon.

The Department encourages translation of Indian texts into other languages and regularly undertakes translation work with well-defined aims to reach wider audiences.

In consonance with the objectives of Dravidian University, the Department undertakes the responsibility of translation and publication of canonical Dravidian texts into Kannada and Kannada texts into other Dravidian languages.