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668  SOUTH INDIA

Exploring Hyderabad & with statues of eminent figures.
Secunderabad At the centre of the lake is a
rock, on which stands a 17-m
(56-ft) high monolithic statue
By the 19th century, Hyderabad had begun to expand of the Buddha, weighing 350
beyond the crowded confines of the old quarter, clustered tonnes. Completed in 1986, it
on both banks of the Musi river. New palaces, and the sank to the bottom of the lake
British military cantonment of Secunderabad, were now when the ferry carrying it
built on the city’s outskirts. capsized. It was finally salvaged
(intact) seven years later and
installed on the rock in 1994.
E Birla Archaeological which contain the State
Museum Archaeological Museum. P Secunderabad
Opposite Ravindra Bharathi, Saifabad. It has a large collection of Northeast of Hussain Sagar
Tel (040) 2324 1067. Open daily. ^ Buddhist art, some fine Chola along the Tank Bund Road,
Previously located in the bronzes, Roman coins, and Secunderabad was established
Asmangarh Palace, once a even an Egyptian mummy. in 1806 as a cantonment to
19th-century hunting lodge There are also replicas of murals house British troops. It has since
of the sixth Nizam, the Birla and sculptures from the Ajanta grown into a teeming city that
Archaeo logical Museum is now and Ellora caves (see pp480–85). is an extension of Hyderabad.
housed in a large com plex on Nearby is the State Legislative At its centre is the Parade
Naubat Pahad. The museum Assembly (built in 1913), a Ground, overlooked by
has a number of galleries that domed complex modelled St Andrew’s Church and
display bronze artifacts, arms on a Rajasthani palace. the imposing colonial-style
and armour, sculptures, art and Secunderabad Club. The Neo-
objects from excavation sites, Gothic Holy Trinity Church
including items found at (built in 1848) is 6 km (4 miles)
Vaddamanu that date from as north of the Parade Ground,
far back as 100 BC. The complex and has beautiful stained-glass
also houses a science museum, windows, elegant steeples
planetarium, modern art gallery on its square tower and a
and the Birla Mandir temple. British cemetery.
The walled compound of
P The Residency the Paigah Palaces, where the
Koti. Open Mon–Sat. Hyderabadi aristocracy lived, is
This elegant Palladian mansion, 2 km (1 mile) west of the Parade
now the University College for Ground, opposite Begumpet
Women, was built in 1805 by the Airport. The most imposing
third Nizam as a gift for the British Hussain Sagar, with a gigantic statue palace is Vicar Manzil, built
Resident at his court, James of the Buddha by the leading nobleman
Kirkpatrick. It was decorated in at the sixth Nizam’s court, Sir
style, with a painted ceiling, and } Hussain Sagar Vicar-ul-Umra; he had built the
mirrors and chandeliers from This huge lake, created in 1562, magnificent Falaknuma Palace
Brighton Pavilion in England. The lies off Mahatma Gandhi Road, (see p665) for himself but had
ped iment above the portico still which bisects Hyderabad and to move out when the Nizam
bears the East India Company’s Secunderabad. The 3-km (2-mile) decided to acquire it. At its
lion-and-unicorn coat of arms. stretch of road along its southern entrance is the Spanish Mosque
In the grounds is a small replica boundary is Hyderabad’s most (built in 1906), with Moorish
of the main building, which popular promenade; it is lined arches and octagonal spires.
Kirkpatrick built for his aristocratic
Hyderabadi wife, Khairunissa
Begum – a liaison that created
a great scandal at the time. There
is a small British cemetery in
a corner of the grounds.
E State Archaeological
Museum
Assembly Rd, N of Railway Station.
Tel (040) 2323 2267. Open Sat–Thu.
Closed Fri & public hols. &
Two large Norman-style
gateways mark the entrance to
the Nampally Public Gardens, The Spanish Mosque at the entrance of Vicar Manzil, Secunderabad
For hotels and restaurants in this region see p703 and p719

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