ABSTRACT
The historic turn in social discourses has stimulated interest in the reconstruction of histories at the grass root level. Hyderabad was always a global city embracing languages and literatures along with the people who brought them here. Like individuals, institutions such as literary societies, universities, libraries, journals, the radio and television have reflected the evolving nature of literary cultures in Hyderabad. The literary culture of a city is, therefore, a way of understanding the life of an entire community embedded as it is in its languages and the many ways in which they reflect their creative energies. Like elsewhere in the world, literary culture in Hyderabad has evolved round the primary form of poetry or verse. Schools and colleges established by missionaries, the establishment of Hyderabad Public School, the Nizam College affiliated to Madras University, and the establishment of Osmania University with the Bureau of Translation under it had expanded the reach of the English language.
