Tamarind Tree inputs

 Tamarind Tree inputs

This is a story of a 300 years old Tamarind Tree on the bank of Musi river in Hyderabad.

Now it is in the campus of Osmania Hospital.

The tree is a mute but a live witness of many happenings in the history of Hyderabad city. 

It witnessed Qutb Shahi dynasty, Asaf Jahi dynasty, British rule,

Revolt of 1857, Turrebaaz Khan

Kuli kutub sha crossing the floating Musi river to meet his girl friend a dancer of Hundu community.

The construction of Osmania Hospital, Charminar.

There was a huge flood in 1908 and  the river Musi submerger the whole city for 8 days.

The tree has saved about 200 people during the devastation.

There were men women girls and boys and even some children of just 40 days.

People offer prayers to this tree.

They call it ‘life saver’.

Mokshagundam Visewswaraih camped at Hyderabad and designed Flood water diversion  projects and huge tanks in the city.

Rabiindranatha tagore visited the place along with 7^th Nizam Mir osman Ali Khan.

On Tagore’s advice only local media was introduced in  the Osmania University.

The Chairman of the Drafting committee of the Indian Constitution BR Ambedkar met Osman Ali khan and got scholarship for his hugher education.

Mir Osman Ali khan’s court was a composition of the people from various parts of the India.

British resident used to stay at Kothi in the city.

It was the center of the literary giants like Maqdhum Mohiddin.

A 40 days boy that survived on the tree became a  great Urdu shaheri poet. And wrote his childhood experience a long poem in Urdu.

The city has produced national and international recognized intellectuals.

There were communists and democrats as well.

There were great political orators like

 

Rabindranath Tagore and the Nizam of Hyderabad had developed a deep sense of mutual respect and admiration over the years and the one thing that bonded them was education. In 1933, Tagore was invited by the Nizam to visit Hyderabad. The poet who had earlier visited some other places in this region, gladly accepted the invitation forwarded by Nawab Mehdi Nawaz Jung, who was then one of the top officials of the Nizam government.

“Where knowledge is free and the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls…" 

There was communists revolt since 1946 and the police action by the Indian government has annexed Nizam state in to India.

Andhra area was merged with Telangana area of Nizam estate to form Andhrapradesh.

Kondapalli Sitharamayya the thespian of Naxalite movement escaped from Osmania Hospital in 1982.

There was a rise of anti-Andhra sentiment that led to reoeganization of the Andhrapradesh and a new state Telangana was formed. 

Now the Osmania Hospital buildings became so old and ready to collaps.

The government wanted to demolish the hospital and planning to either constructing new building or shifting it to some other place out side the city.

Heritage lovers raised their voice against this move. They want the preservation of the building.