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 following 34 personalities are commemorated in the order of appearance from Secunderabad. •
Komaram BheemTribal leader from
Telangana who openly fought against
Nizam of Hyderabad with slogan
Jal, jungal, zameen •
Rudrama DeviThe 13th century Queen of the
Kakatiya Dynasty which ruled over most parts of present-day
Telangana and
Andhra Pradesh •
Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VISixth
Nizam of Hyderabad •
Sarvepalli RadhakrishnanFirst
Vice President of India and second
President of India •
C. R. ReddyEducationist, political thinker, essayist, poet and literary critic •
Gurajada ApparaoTelugu 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
British Raj •
Sir Arthur CottonBritish irrigation engineer instrumental in building the
Prakasam Barrage, the
Dowleswaram Barrage and the
Kurnool Cuddappah Canal (K. C. Canal) •
Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chowdary Telugu lawyer, poet, playwright, reformer, rationalist and humanist •
Pingali VenkayyaIndian freedom fighter and the designer of the flag on which the
Indian national flag was based •
Kandukuri VeeresalingamSocial reformer and
Telugu writer •
Makhdoom MohiuddinUrdu poet, Marxist political activist and a forerunner of
Telangana Rebellion against the
Nizam of Hyderabad •
Suravaram PratapareddySocial historian from
Telangana •
Gurram JashuvaTelugu poet and
Dalit activist •
Mutnuri Krishna RaoIndian freedom fighter, editor, scholar and literary critic •
Sri Sri Telugu poet and lyricist •
Raghupathi Venkataratnam NaiduIndian
social reformer •
ThyagarajaRenowned composer of
Carnatic music •
Ramadasu17th-century Indian devotee of
Lord Rama and a composer of
Carnatic music •
Sri KrishnadevarayaThe Emperor of the
Vijayanagara Empire who reigned from 1509 to 1529 •
KshetrayyaTelugu poet and composer of
Carnatic music •
Potuluri Virabrahmendra Swami Hindu saint, who lived in
Andhra Pradesh •
Bramha NaiduMinister in a Medieval
Andhra kingdom of
Palnadu •
Molla Telugu poet who authored the
Telugu-language Ramayana •
Tana Shah Last ruler of the
Qutb Shahi dynasty •
Siddhendra YogiInventor of Modern form of Classical dance
Kuchipudi •
Yogi VemanaTelugu poet and philosopher •
Potana Telugu poet best known for his translation of the
Bhagavata Purana from
Sanskrit to
Telugu •
Annamacharya15th-century
Hindu saint and the earliest known Indian musician to compose songs called sankirtanas in praise of the
Lord Venkateswara, a form of
Vishnu •
Yerrapragada Medieval
Telugu poet •
TikkanaSecond poet of the "Trinity of Poets (
Kavi Trayam)" that translated
Mahabharata 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
Satavahana Empire in present-day
Deccan region of India ==References==