Indian Revised Version (Telugu)

The Indian Revised Version (IRV) in Telugu belongs to a larger project. Bridge Connectivity Solutions (BCS), an Indian organization, released parallel revisions of the Bible in more than ten of the country's languages between 2017 and 2019, from Hindi to Malayalam. This is the Telugu edition, the language of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, with the 66 books of the Protestant canon in Telugu script. The copyright years on record are 2017, 2019. This edition dates from 2019.

The name already tells you the method: this is a revision, not a translation started from scratch. Rather than invent a new text, the work takes the biblical tradition already present in the language and brings it up to date. Because the editions were produced together, in one editorial effort, the same passage can be read side by side across India's languages, which helps churches and families that live between two tongues.

For a Telugu reader it is a complete, modern Bible that anyone may use freely, something uncommon among the languages of the subcontinent. The honest limit is documentation: BCS publishes little about its team, its source texts or its translation choices, so anyone studying closely should check hard passages against another Telugu version and against Hebrew and Greek tools. It also leaves out the deuterocanonical books.

The license is what brings it here. BCS released the text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0): anyone may read, copy and redistribute it, as long as they credit the source and keep the same license. That is why it sits in Midvash at no cost, with the text taken from eBible.org.