Telugu is a Dravidian language with subject-object-verb (SOV) word order. It is classically described as a wh-in-situ language (Bruening 2007, Subba Rao 2012), and consistent with this, object questions always have SOV word order. However, interviews with native Telugu-speaking adults suggest that Telugu may allow subject questions to have either SOV or OSV word order. Because object topicalization is allowed in Telugu declaratives (Davis, 2005), OSV subject questions could be the result of object-fronting in topicalized contexts. Alternatively, if Telugu has partial wh-movement (Jayaseelan 2001, 2008, Balusu, 2016), this would license OSV subject questions. We conducted a yoked judgment/production experiment in which 17 Telugu-speaking adults read brief stories that either did or did not support object topicalization. After each story, participants chose whether they thought the SOV or OSV version of a sentence fit the story context best, and then they said their choice aloud. Bayesian analyses of the judgment results revealed that, although Telugu-speakers chose both SOV and OSV options for subject questions, they preferred OSV subject questions after both topicalizing and non-topicalizing stories. In contrast, they preferred SOV declaratives, particularly after non-topicalizing stories. Acoustic analyses suggest that, whereas OSV declaratives involved object topicalization, OSV subject questions did not. Taken as a whole, these results indicate that Telugu OSV subject questions are not the result of object topicalization, but may be the result of partial wh-movement. While further research is needed to determine why SOV and OSV subject questions coexist in Telugu, this study demonstrates that OSV subject questions are an acceptable option – and perhaps even the preferred option – in Telugu.