The Tank Bund Road is a road in

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, India. The Tank Bund dams Hussain Sagar lake on the eastern side and connects the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. It has become an attraction with 33 statues of famous people from the region. The Pakistan Patton tank, now an attraction for visitors to the Tank Bund Road, is a war trophy given to the 54th Infantry Division, and is one that the Indian Army had disabled during the Battle of Basantar in Pakistan, between 15 and 17 December 1971. Parallel to the Tank Bund Road, the Lower Tank Bund road was intended to reduce traffic congestion. Lumbini Park is the nearest park to this road. The road is also a major point for

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Statues of Icons along Tank Bund Road

34 bronze statues, are installed on high platforms, of people who played iconic role in the development of Hyderabad and Telugu culture along the Tank Bund road. The statues were installed by the then

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, N. T. Rama Rao. A committee with members from various regions of then Undivided Andhra Pradesh shortlisted the personalities whose statues were to be installed. The following 34 personalities are commemorated in the order of appearance from Secunderabad. Monuments on tank bund

* Komaram Bheem
Tribal leader from

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who openly fought against

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with slogan ''Jal, jungal, zameen'' * Rudrama Devi
The 13th century Queen of the

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which ruled over most parts of present-day

and

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Sixth

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First

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and second

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* C. R. Reddy
Educationist, political thinker, essayist, poet and literary critic * Gurajada Apparao
Telugu playwright, dramatist, poet, writer and humanist * Ballari Raghava
Telugu playwright, thespian and film actor * Alluri Sita Rama Raju
Indian Telugu revolutionary who fought against the

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* Sir Arthur Cotton
British irrigation engineer instrumental in building the

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, the Dowleswaram Barrage and the Kurnool Cuddappah Canal (K. C. Canal) * Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chowdary
Telugu lawyer, poet, playwright, reformer, rationalist and humanist *

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Indian freedom fighter and the designer of the flag on which the Indian national flag was based * Kandukuri Veeresalingam

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and Telugu writer * Makhdoom Mohiuddin
Urdu poet, Marxist political activist and a forerunner of

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against the

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Social historian from

* Gurram Jashuva
Telugu poet and

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activist * Mutnuri Krishna Rao
Indian freedom fighter, editor, scholar and literary critic * Sri Sri
Telugu poet and lyricist * Raghupathi Venkataratnam Naidu
Indian

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* Thyagaraja
Renowned composer of

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* Ramadasu
17th-century Indian devotee of

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and a composer of

* Sri Krishnadevaraya
The Emperor of the

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who reigned from 1509 to 1529 *

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Telugu poet and composer of

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saint, who lived in

* Bramha Naidu
Minister in a Medieval

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kingdom of Palnadu * Molla
Telugu poet who authored the Telugu-language

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* Tana Shah
Last ruler of the

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*Siddhendra Yogi
Inventor of Modern form of Classical dance Kuchipudi * Yogi Vemana
Telugu poet and philosopher * Potana
Telugu poet best known for his translation of the

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from

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to Telugu *

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15th-century

saint and the earliest known Indian musician to compose songs called sankirtanas in praise of the Lord Venkateswara, a form of

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* Yerrapragada
Medieval Telugu poet *

Tikkana Tikkana (1205–1288), also known as Tikkana Somayaji, was a 13th century Telugu poet. Born into a Telugu-speaking Niyogi Brahmin family . He was the second poet of the "Trinity of Poets ( Kavi Trayam)" that translated ''Mahabharata'' into T ...

Second poet of the "Trinity of Poets ( Kavi Trayam)" that translated

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into Telugu * Nannayya
Telugu poet and the first in Trinity of poets (Kavitrayam), who authored Andhra mahabharatam, a Telugu retelling of the Mahabharata * Gautamiputra Satakarni (Shalivahanudu)
Ruler of the

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in present-day

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region of India

References

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