ABSTRACT
The Hyderabad State under the rule of Nizam comprized three linguistic regions, namely, Telangana, Marathwada and Karnataka. The official language of the state was Urdu. Hence every citizen whether educated or uneducated, knew minimum four languages. Besides Marathi, Urdu, Kannada and Telugu, the educated elite knew English too. Osmania University opened the Centre for Exploration of Geophysics in collaboration with USSR in the 1960s. Many Russian professors used to visit the centre as visiting professors and many of the faculty members from Osmania used to visit Moscow for improvement of their qualifications or to participate in seminars. Dr. Reddy had a dream to make Osmania the centre for studies in foreign languages. In those days foreign languages were taught in very few places in India. In the 1960s, Max Muller Bhavan in Ramkote and Indo-Soviet Cultural Society opposite Nizam College also started classes in German and Russian respectively. With these started a lot of cultural activities like film shows in German and Russian.
