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| headquarters = [[Bangalore]]
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| region =[[Telangana]]
| services = Raising contribution, translating, printing, distribution
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| language =[[Lambadi language|Lambadi]], [[Telugu language|Telugu]] and [[Urdu language|Urdu]]
| sec_gen =[[The Reverend|Rev.]] John Basy Paul, [[Church of South India|CSI]], [[M. Th.]] ([[Senate of Serampore College (University)|Serampore)]])<ref>''[[Sowing Circle|The Sowing Circle]]'', Volume 34, Number 2, July-December 2018.</ref>
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| main_organ =India Bible Society of Trust Association
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| secessions = [[Bible Society of India Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary]]
| affiliations = [[United Bible Societies]]
| budget = Rs.1.10,00,000.00<ref name="Volume 31">The Sowing Circle, Volume 31, Number 1, January–April 2015. [http://www.bsind.org/pdf/magazine-Jan-apr2015.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126095436/http://www.bsind.org/pdf/magazine-Jan-apr2015.pdf |date=26 November 2015 }}</ref>
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| slogan =''Applying God's word in the world''
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The [[Bible Society of India]] Telangana Auxiliary is located in [[Secunderabad]] which was bifurcated from the erstwhile [[Bible Society of India Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary|Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary]] on 2 February 2016.<ref>''BSI Auxiliary Office opened in Guntur'' in The Hindu, Guntur, 3 February 2016.  [http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/bsi-auxiliary-office-opened-in-guntur/article8185760.ece]</ref>

This Auxiliary translated the [[Telugu language|Telugu]] and [[Lambadi]] versions of the Bible.
==Telugu version==
{{main|Bible translations by language}}
In the Annual report of the British & Foreign Bible Society<ref>''Annual report of the British & Foreign Bible Society'', British and Foreign Bible Society, Printed for the Society by J. Tilling, 1867.  [https://books.google.com/books?id=fYQsAAAAYAAJ&dq=]</ref> John Hay had undertaken the revision of the Telugu Bible (of [[Lyman Jewett]]?).  In the same report, mention was made of the [[Secunderabad]] Branch.<ref>Howard Benjamin Grose, ''Missions: an international Baptist magazine'', Volume 9, 1918.  [https://books.google.com/books?lr=&cd=5&id=mZnNAAAAMAAJ&dq=]</ref>

In 1953, the Telugu Bible was revised from earlier version which had been translated by John Hay, Edward Pritchett,<ref>Arrived in India, 17 November 1811</ref> John Smith Wardlaw (1813-), James William Gordon, John Redmond Bacon and Dhanavada Anantam.<ref>John Hay, Edward Pritchett, John Smith Wardlaw, John Redmond Bacon, Dhanavada Anantam, ''The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments: translated into the Telugu language (with references)'', under the auspices of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Bible Society of India, Pakistan and Ceylon, Secunderabad Auxiliary, 1953.  [https://books.google.com/books?id=XC9AOQAACAAJ&dq=telugu+bible+bible+society+of+india&lr=&cd=8]</ref>

[[The Reverend|Rev.]] [[A. B. Masilamani]] who majored in [[Greek language|Greek]]<ref name="Babu">G. Babu Rao, in Souvenir of Birth Centenary Greetings of Rev. Dr. A. B. Masilamani, New Life Associates, Hyderabad, 2014, p.19</ref>  at [[Serampore College]] was Auxiliary Secretary as well part of the Translation Team providing stylistic corrections in [[Telugu language|Telugu]].  Modern translations of the Telugu Bible in common language were taken up by [[The Reverend|Rev.]] [[Victor Premasagar]]<ref name="Wilson"/> and [[The Reverend|Rev.]] G. Babu Rao,<ref name="Wilson">H. S. Wilson (Edited), The Church on the Move, Essays in honour of Victor Premasagar, Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1988, p.vi. [https://books.google.com/books?ei=iR-HVZnHN43GuAT82IDwBQ&id=S-wrAAAAMAAJ&dq=victor+premasagar+g.babu+rao&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=babu+rao]</ref> both of whom were Scholars of Biblical [[Hebrew]] and Biblical [[Greek language|Greek]] as well as colleagues at the [[Protestant]] Regional Theologiate in [[Secunderabad]].

During the Auxiliary Secretaryship of [[The Reverend|Rev.]] [[B. G. Prasada Rao]], a team consisting of [[The Reverend|Rev.]] Suppogu Israel and [[The Reverend|Rev.]] G. Babu Rao began translating portions of the Bible into modern Telugu which included,
*Portions translated into modern Telugu
** Book of Ruth, 1976<ref>Suppogu Israel, G. Babu Rao (Translated), Book of Ruth, The Bible Society of India, Bangalore, 1976.  [https://books.google.com/books?id=U_WVZwEACAAJ&dq=g.babu+rao+bible+society&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ybiaVbarGdG2uAT0-bDQDw&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA]</ref>
** Man You Cannot Ignore, 1976<ref>Suppogu Israel, G. Babu Rao (Translated), Man You Cannot Ignore, The Bible Society of India, Bangalore, 1976.  [https://books.google.com/books?id=_rObXwAACAAJ&dq=g.babu+rao+bible+society&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ybiaVbarGdG2uAT0-bDQDw&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAQ]</ref>
<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Bible House Visakhapatnam.jpg|thumb|275px|right|Bible House Book Depot, [[Visakhapatnam]].  Telugu Old Testament Common Language Workshop coordinated by [[The Reverend|Rev.]] G. Babu Rao, ''(second row, third from left)'' with [[The Reverend|Rev.]] [[G. D. V. Prasad]] ''(first row, third from left)'' and [[The Reverend|Rev.]] D. [[Jonadob Nathaniel]] ''(second row, first from right)''.]] -->

The Old Testament Scholar, [[Dr.]] [[Graham S. Ogden]], [[Asia-Pacific]] Regional Translations Coordinator of the [[United Bible Societies]] used to liaise with the Auxiliary during the Secretaryship of [[L. Prakasam]], providing scholarly inputs and also reviewing the progress of the Telugu-Old Testament Common Language Project Coordinator, [[The Reverend|Rev.]] G. Babu Rao.

A Living Bible in Telugu was also proposed as early as 1980<ref>Roger E. Hudlund, ''World Christianity: South Asia'', Volume 3 of World Christianity, Missions Advanced Research and Communication Center, Missions Advanced Research and Communication Center, 1980.  p.60.  [https://books.google.com/books?lr=&cd=4&id=RfMpKxKHjwsC&dq=]</ref>

==Lambadi version==
In 2001, the [[Lambadi]] version translated by [[B. E. Devaraj]] was released.

==Auxiliary formation and Secretaries==
The present Auxiliary was bifurcated on 2 February 2016<ref name="BSI">[[Bible Society of India]], ''Telangana Auxiliary''.  [http://www.bsind.org/Telangana-Auxiliary.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902232556/http://www.bsind.org/Telangana-Auxiliary.html |date=2017-09-02 }}</ref> from the [[Bible Society of India Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary]] and on 5 June 2016, a new Auxiliary Secretary was appointed hailing from the Protestant Regional Theologiate, that is, the [[Andhra Christian Theological College]], which had by then had been a source of translators for earlier revisions of the Bible comprising [[B. E. Devaraj]], CSI, [[Muriel Spurgeon Carder|Muriel Spurgeon-Carder]], [[CBCNC]], [[Victor Premasagar]], CSI, K. David,<ref>K. David, ''The development of the concept of salvation in the Qumran Community and its significance for our understanding of salvation in the NT'', ''[[Indian Journal of Theology]]'', Volume 30, Issue 3-4, July-December 1981, pp.131-137.[https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/ijt/30-3-4_131.pdf]</ref> CBCNC and G. Babu Rao,<ref name="Wilson"/> CBCNC, who also served as Auxiliary Secretary for the earlier [[Bible Society of India Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary]] encompassing the present two Telugu states of [[Telangana]] and [[Andhra Pradesh]].
===Administrators pre-bifurcation===
{| class="wikitable" style="border: 5px solid #BBB; margin: .96em 0 0 .9em;"
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|'''Tenure''' || '''Auxiliary Secretary'''|| '''Earned Academic Credentials'''
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|1953-1963||The Rev. [[E. Prakasam]], [[Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church|AELC]]<ref name="Prema"/><ref name="books.google.co.in">Annual Report of the American Bible Society, Volume 147, 1963, American Bible Society, p.140.  [https://books.google.com/books?ei=iuaYVenmH8KxuAT354MI&id=MyPPAAAAMAAJ&dq=E.+Prakasam+bible+society+of+india&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=masilamani]</ref>||[[Licentiate in Theology|L. Th.]] ([[Senate of Serampore College (University)|Serampore]])
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|1963-1969||The Rev. [[A. B. Masilamani]], [[CBCNC]]<ref name="Prema"/><ref name="books.google.co.in"/>||L. Th. (Serampore), [[Bachelor of Divinity|B. D.]] (Serampore), [[Master of Arts|M. A.]] ([[University of Calcutta|Calcutta]]), [[Master of Theology|Th. M.]] ([[University of Toronto|Toronto]]), [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph. D.]] ([[Osmania University|Osmania]])
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|1969-1976||The Rev. [[B. G. Prasada Rao]], [[Church of South India|CSI]]<ref name="Prema"/><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?ei=aLWaVbeqLce2uQSQj4v4Aw&id=FMfeAAAAMAAJ&dq=b.g.prasada+rao+bible+society&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=prasada Annual Report of the American Bible Society, Volume 160, 1975, p.105]</ref>||B. D. (Serampore), [[Master of Theology|M. Th.]] (Serampore)
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|1976-1981||The Rev. [[T. B. D. Prakasa Rao]], CSI<ref name="Prema"/><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?ei=kLaaVYj0JtK8uASgv4Eg&id=-iZXAAAAYAAJ&dq=t.b.d.prakasa+rao+bible+society&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=rao Annual Report of the American Bible Society, Volume 165, 1980, p.90]</ref>||[[Bachelor of Arts|B. A.]] ([[Andhra University|Andhra]]), B. D. (Serampore), M. A. (Osmania), [[Bachelor of Education|B. Ed.]] (Andhra)
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|1981-1998||The Rev. [[L. Prakasam]], CBCNC<ref name="Prema"/><ref>[http://www.cbchurchvizag.com/our%20message.aspx Pastors who served Calvary Baptist Church, Visakhapatnam]</ref>||L. Th. (Serampore)
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|1998-2001||The Rev. G. Babu Rao, CBCNC<ref name="Prema"/>||[[Bachelor of Science|B. Sc.]] (Andhra),''<sup>[[Double majors in the United States|Double majors in Mathematics]]</sup>'' B. D. (Serampore), M. Th. (Serampore)
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|2001-2012||The Rev. N. L. Victor, [[The Salvation Army|SA]]<ref name="Prema">''Prema Sakshi'', Volume 6, Issue 4, August 2008.  pp.11-41.  ''Prema Sakshi'', a monthly registered (APTEL 07419/01/2002) magazine published by I. C. Ashok Kumar at Neena Publications, Door Number 1-5-4/1/A, First Floor, Behind Sai Raja Deluxe Cinema, Musheerabad, Hyderabad 500 048.</ref><ref name="BSI1">[[Sowing Circle]], Volume 28, 2, May–August 2012, pp.46-47</ref>||B. A. 
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|2012-2016||The Rev. B. S. Rajashekar, CSI<ref name="Sowing">[[Sowing Circle]] : A publication of the Bible Society of India, Volume 28, Number 2, (May - August 2012), pp.24, 25, 46, 47.  [http://www.bsind.org/pdf/jan2013.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208071110/http://www.bsind.org/pdf/jan2013.pdf |date=8 December 2015 }}</ref><ref name="Prema"/><ref name="BSI1"/>||[[Bachelor of Commerce|B. Com.]] ([[Acharya Nagarjuna University|Nagarjuna]]), B. D. (Serampore), M. Th. (Serampore)
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===Present Administrators (post-bifurcation)===
{| class="wikitable" style="border: 5px solid #BBB; margin: .96em 0 0 .9em;"
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|'''Tenure''' || '''Auxiliary Secretary'''|| '''Earned Academic Credentials'''
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|2016-2018||The Rev. P. K. Praveen Prabhu Sudheer, CSI||B. Com. (Osmania), B. D. (Serampore), M. Th. (Serampore), Ph. D. ([[University of Madras|Madras]])
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|2018-''present''||The Rev. John Basy Paul, CSI||B. Sc. ([[Kakatiya University|Kakatiya]]), B. D. (Serampore), M. A. (Kakatiya), M. Th., ([[Protestant Theological University|PTU]]), M. Th. (Serampore)
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==References==
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;Further reading
* {{cite journal
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 | title=Prema Sakshi
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 | issue=4
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* {{cite journal
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 | title=The Encyclopaedia of Missions
 | year=1891
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