hi I begin with this scene this is the
same from the semi-final football match
of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics Indian
lady yoga Slavia to finish fourth the
best ever performance of India at the
Olympics in football up to date and
services this is the team that made it
happen
in red our players from Hyderabad that
represented India at the Olympics
underlined in red including the
legendary coach syed abdul rahim who
took football to great heights in india
in the 20th century and in fact even
made it a common man’s game all of them
came from a specific locality of
hyderabad from the locality of muliple e
to be specific over the next few decades
Hyderabad and especially those from Ally
Pally form the spine of football in
India football team
incidentally last month three youngsters
went to Chile to represent India in the
under-19 football team so what is it
about monopoly that has churned out
footballers of national and
international repute even today is it
accidental no it’s not but to understand
what it is we need to go back 100 years
over a hundred years we go back to 1912
we go back to the time when Hyderabad
had a new Nizam Nawab sir Mir Osman Ali
Khan the seventh and most controversial
of the Nizam’s had just become the new
ruler for Hyderabad but he had become
the Nizam in troubled times Hyderabad
was just reeling from two calamities
first there was the flood of 1908 which
had taken over 50,000 lives and
destroyed 10,000 homes this was followed
by an epidemic of plague in 1911 and
this created this created even more
damage and a horrible loss of lives 100
and lives of the citizens of Hyderabad
were lost in 1911 so there was a great
need to do something and do something
urgently and the Nizam set up a City
improvement board to help the citizens
of Hyderabad and to make Hyderabad a
better city to live in but even before
the board was set up
Suresh wish Faria an eminent engineer
and a statesman who later went on to
become the Diwan of Mysore
he was knighted and he was also given
the Bharat Ratna he was invited to
Hyderabad in 1909 to see what could be
done to make Hyderabad more hygienic and
to prevent such calamities and such
massive disasters from happening so he
spearheaded several projects but amongst
them he masterminded what we remember in
Hyderabad today or what we look at in
Hyderabad today as our great landmarks
the Hammad saga and the Usman saga Reza
was he created this – up street
constructed them upstream from the river
to prevent floods but also to assist in
irrigation to a scale that was never
seen in the state before and he also
these were also to provide drinking
water for the citizens of Hyderabad and
they still do so we still get our water
from these two reservoirs what we swish
variety earlier when he started this
work was that whatever the proposals
that they choose to do in the state they
have to be economic and efficient in the
long term
he had also used principles which we
think today are modern so for example he
used the words of tree-lined boulevards
as being the lung spaces for the city
and he also said that the that the
proposal should aim at making people’s
lives better at making them happier and
that was what
so was the clear mandate when the board
was set up in 1912 sorry that picture
looks a bit grainy but the mandate of
the board was to improve the social
moral and physical conditions of the
citizens this board was set up in 1912
and functioned until 1956 when it became
part of the AAP housing board in these
40 years it
shaped Hyderabad they cleared slums they
built new homes they made public
building Civic buildings hospitals
colleges but they also change the
skyline of Hyderabad
there were planners architects engineers
but also botanist and horticulturist
they were sent abroad to Europe a to
Europe America and to the UK to see what
was being what was going on in the
municipalities over there and to bring
back what was relevant to the Hyderabad
context and this they did and they also
brought together brought back with them
concepts which again today we consider
modern so water recycling separating the
stormwater which should go directly into
the river they also talked about in the
also did heritage preservation and
reusing all buildings today we know that
reusing old buildings reduces the carbon
print they did this in height by the
hundred years ago but the first thing
they did was to decongest the city
hyderabad with a plan city when it was
formed in 1591 and at that time it was
laid on a double grid basis but from
1591 until 1912 which is over 300 years
it had grown in a haphazard fashion it
had grown with the Charminar at the
centre and it had grown outwards from
there so it had become very congested
and the sanitation was really not up to
the mark the first thing the board did
was to decongest all of that and they
created about twelve point eight five
square kilometers of green area and this
considering the municipality limit of
Hyderabad was 84 square kilometers
roughly accounts to one-sixth of the
city being deliberately green and this
they did by clearing out swampy areas so
like the massive dahye a massive tank
which is was the old master hyper tank
was the swampy had become a swampy lake
so they cleared that out to clear remove
disease like malaria and created a park
and it still is a park today several
localities also even in the dense core
of the old city were cleared out to make
Gardens parks and trees all part of the
decongestion
was
also to create two concentric roads the
inner and the outer ring road and these
were designed to take traffic away from
the core of the old city and only bring
traffic into the city where required
incidentally the outer ring road was
completed in 2012 what we know today as
the ORR that was based app is designed
on the basis of the on the basis of the
design given by the CIB of course the
original Orr covered an area of 50
kilometers and today’s Orr covers an
area of 150 kilometers but given that
the city today is 625 square kilometers
visa vie what was then originally
planned for 84 square kilometers it’s a
third larger and one can understand why
that was there but the idea is that the
whole concept of easing traffic and
creating these two ring roads was
something that was planned by the CIB
the second step was to designate
districts so sir which way should I uh I
was extremely particular that I’m going
to try and show you I don’t think you
can see it but the the river district
what you see in green on either side of
the river in the center he wanted this
is the the the Civic district of
Hyderabad to be at the very core and
another important reason important
reason for that was that the heart of
the city did not shift which is
something we see today so the heart
remained where it was and civic
buildings public buildings again the
thoroughfare is the main thoroughfares
were by the river on either side of it
and what you see in pink cutting across
perpendicular to it was the commercial
district the houses in fact in more
all-around residential areas with their
green belts and to the top right to the
northeast the industrial area which is
again today known as the Assam Abbas
Industrial Estate all of these were
designed by the CIB well the next step
was to take ideas and translate them
into action and that is exactly what
they did next so you have the this is
the scene of the river moosi and the
river district the riverbank district as
it was called and
created five kilometers of stone
embankments on either side of the River
Mersey and also filled in a lake over
there so that there would be water
perennially in the city of Hyderabad you
must remember that mu C is a is a
seasonal River so it would have water
only for part of the year but they
dammed it in such a way that it would
have water throughout they also made
public buildings and gardens here you
can see the absol gardens to the north
and thoroughfares on it now this again
was deliberate the reason that they made
public buildings was they feared that if
ever there should be another spate of
the river moosi there should be a
minimum loss of lives and that could
only be guaranteed if there were no
homes there and no homes would be
guaranteed if public buildings look that
place so it was all well thought out so
they the High Court in the distance at
their background there was the first
public building to be designed on the
south bank of the river moosi in the
year 1916 this was followed by the City
College in 1917 and in 1925 they was
maniel Hospital all three of these
buildings were designed by Vincent – a
British architect who was brought in by
the Nizam and he was given a very clear
brief he was told your buildings for
these buildings must represent through
their architectural fabric what the
state stands for they must stand for
communal harmony and social cohesion so
the mandate was very clear it was not an
afterthought it was not something that
was done whimsically so what Vincent –
had to do he had to take in fact in
lintels and Karl and brackets from
temples and combine them with booth of
shahe domes gateways from be the
colonnades from gulbarga so the whole of
the Deccan that stood for Singh
criticism and contrast Opel atomism was
shown through the buildings through
architecture which really is the most
visual form of all arts and this was
something that was meant to last and
last it has the last building to be
built on the riverfront
was the of Sophia’s State Library that
was constructed in 1932 these buildings
may look traditional but there is
nothing traditional about them except
that the way they look except the God
except the architecture
fabric these were contemporary both in
their use and in the materials that we
use to build them with use for example
the High Court the Canaries the old
Canaries had given way to a high court
with modern court and the Amana hospital
amongst the largest allopathic hospitals
in the world when it was designed even
by today’s standards is considered to be
a large hospital second the materials
are CC and steel were just being
introduced as building materials and
here in or the CI be used both RCC and
steel it extensively in their work and
therefore it made Hyderabad one of the
earliest cities in India to use our CC
they also constructed shopping arcades
shopping districts so the passivity
shopping arcade scene here constructed
in 1930 continues to be a very popular
shopping destination in the old city
even today and what can be considered as
Hyderabad first shopping model the Mosin
Jaya market constructed in 1935 but
perhaps what is most meaningful and most
impacting of the work that the CIB did
was their clearing of the slums and
creating homes in 40 years they built
over 3,000 homes in 14 specially
designed localities they started with
the locality of numbly
where the epidemic of plague had begun
and moved both north and south of
nampalli because two unconnected these
residential colonies as they went along
each of these localities had was
self-contained so they had a school they
had a clinic or a hospital they had
playgrounds maidens courtyards and this
is where we come back to where we
started we come back to monopoly and why
did monopoly produce so many footballers
well the answer is really very simple
because they were given the facility
monopoly was designed here you can see
on the map and then on the Google Earth
image was designed around eight grounds
which we used as football grounds and
the way the locality was designed was
that it had it had the
around the football grounds the idea was
that the mothers could watch the
children play in the evenings the
children went out and played safely
right in front of their homes they
practiced and they excelled at what they
did and they turned out to be great
footballers so it was just because the
facility was provided in such a natural
way to them now the houses themselves
they were designed not in the alien BHK
format that we have today but in the
traditional Hyderabadi way so you had a
courtyard in every house you had to
separate zenana influence and you had to
separate McDonough entrance for the men
they were also chibuto outside our
platforms where people could sit and
again all look all the cloacal ities
that were designed were designed in such
a way that there was 60% of the locality
was built upon and 40% was left open as
courtyards and playgrounds so this whole
concept of leaving things open to give
place to breathe went right trickle down
all the way through now mallepalli
didn’t just produce footballers it also
produces playwrights for its birthday
theater personalities and painters so
Shabana means mother comes from
mallepalli so does Jelani Bonham who’s a
greater good poet and Savitha Mekons
who’s Hyderabad among jackpots most
well-known painters so they all came
here and they attribute the atmosphere
of Monopoly gratefully to what their
successive successes have been because
they say the atmosphere was conducive to
dialogue to talk to interact with
community and this is something which we
seem to have forgotten in our designs
today it has been possible to study
Monopoly simply because it is one of the
very few localities that was designed by
the CIB that has that was not destroyed
some localities that were designed by
them like here at the bank have been
destroyed beyond recognition today
so it’s not possible ready to study them
and see what really the impact has been
but the CIB left a very good record of
what they did they published very
meticulous reports every year which
which outlined their work how they you
know what they did how they did it and
so it’s possible to look
these and study and understand what
their intentions were their work was
this town Improvement Trust in
Secunderabad which was then under the
British chose to follow the Hyderabad
model for the CIB and not look at at the
back British press identities like
Madras and Calcutta to see what they
could take from there further afield in
Britain that itself was under growing
massive rebuilding after that between
the two was between World War one and
World War two planners from Britain came
to Hyderabad to see what hide what they
could learn from Hyderabad and take back
in fact a mr. town row planner from the
Riv a wrote that this British Spanish
should come and learn from the Hyderabad
model because they did not build castles
in the clouds but have the means and the
will to translate their ideas into
action
now people make places and places make
people apart from the technical and the
scientific work that the CIB did what
were the very core of their work was the
general well-being the happiness and the
holistic growth of the citizens of
Hyderabad and mallepalli is witness to
that it shows us that seventy years or
eight years on from when it was
constructed it still it still holds
relevance even today and it is
successful as a locality because it was
being used to the maximum potential for
which it was designed so we can really
look back into the past and see what to
take from there so that we can learn but
we have to do this fast and we have to
say what is left because what the CIB
has had done in those forty years is
fast vanishing but we need to look back
and learn and we need to learn so that
we can take Hyderabad safely into the
future thank you
[Applause]
same from the semi-final football match
of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics Indian
lady yoga Slavia to finish fourth the
best ever performance of India at the
Olympics in football up to date and
services this is the team that made it
happen
in red our players from Hyderabad that
represented India at the Olympics
underlined in red including the
legendary coach syed abdul rahim who
took football to great heights in india
in the 20th century and in fact even
made it a common man’s game all of them
came from a specific locality of
hyderabad from the locality of muliple e
to be specific over the next few decades
Hyderabad and especially those from Ally
Pally form the spine of football in
India football team
incidentally last month three youngsters
went to Chile to represent India in the
under-19 football team so what is it
about monopoly that has churned out
footballers of national and
international repute even today is it
accidental no it’s not but to understand
what it is we need to go back 100 years
over a hundred years we go back to 1912
we go back to the time when Hyderabad
had a new Nizam Nawab sir Mir Osman Ali
Khan the seventh and most controversial
of the Nizam’s had just become the new
ruler for Hyderabad but he had become
the Nizam in troubled times Hyderabad
was just reeling from two calamities
first there was the flood of 1908 which
had taken over 50,000 lives and
destroyed 10,000 homes this was followed
by an epidemic of plague in 1911 and
this created this created even more
damage and a horrible loss of lives 100
and lives of the citizens of Hyderabad
were lost in 1911 so there was a great
need to do something and do something
urgently and the Nizam set up a City
improvement board to help the citizens
of Hyderabad and to make Hyderabad a
better city to live in but even before
the board was set up
Suresh wish Faria an eminent engineer
and a statesman who later went on to
become the Diwan of Mysore
he was knighted and he was also given
the Bharat Ratna he was invited to
Hyderabad in 1909 to see what could be
done to make Hyderabad more hygienic and
to prevent such calamities and such
massive disasters from happening so he
spearheaded several projects but amongst
them he masterminded what we remember in
Hyderabad today or what we look at in
Hyderabad today as our great landmarks
the Hammad saga and the Usman saga Reza
was he created this – up street
constructed them upstream from the river
to prevent floods but also to assist in
irrigation to a scale that was never
seen in the state before and he also
these were also to provide drinking
water for the citizens of Hyderabad and
they still do so we still get our water
from these two reservoirs what we swish
variety earlier when he started this
work was that whatever the proposals
that they choose to do in the state they
have to be economic and efficient in the
long term
he had also used principles which we
think today are modern so for example he
used the words of tree-lined boulevards
as being the lung spaces for the city
and he also said that the that the
proposal should aim at making people’s
lives better at making them happier and
that was what
so was the clear mandate when the board
was set up in 1912 sorry that picture
looks a bit grainy but the mandate of
the board was to improve the social
moral and physical conditions of the
citizens this board was set up in 1912
and functioned until 1956 when it became
part of the AAP housing board in these
40 years it
shaped Hyderabad they cleared slums they
built new homes they made public
building Civic buildings hospitals
colleges but they also change the
skyline of Hyderabad
there were planners architects engineers
but also botanist and horticulturist
they were sent abroad to Europe a to
Europe America and to the UK to see what
was being what was going on in the
municipalities over there and to bring
back what was relevant to the Hyderabad
context and this they did and they also
brought together brought back with them
concepts which again today we consider
modern so water recycling separating the
stormwater which should go directly into
the river they also talked about in the
also did heritage preservation and
reusing all buildings today we know that
reusing old buildings reduces the carbon
print they did this in height by the
hundred years ago but the first thing
they did was to decongest the city
hyderabad with a plan city when it was
formed in 1591 and at that time it was
laid on a double grid basis but from
1591 until 1912 which is over 300 years
it had grown in a haphazard fashion it
had grown with the Charminar at the
centre and it had grown outwards from
there so it had become very congested
and the sanitation was really not up to
the mark the first thing the board did
was to decongest all of that and they
created about twelve point eight five
square kilometers of green area and this
considering the municipality limit of
Hyderabad was 84 square kilometers
roughly accounts to one-sixth of the
city being deliberately green and this
they did by clearing out swampy areas so
like the massive dahye a massive tank
which is was the old master hyper tank
was the swampy had become a swampy lake
so they cleared that out to clear remove
disease like malaria and created a park
and it still is a park today several
localities also even in the dense core
of the old city were cleared out to make
Gardens parks and trees all part of the
decongestion
was
also to create two concentric roads the
inner and the outer ring road and these
were designed to take traffic away from
the core of the old city and only bring
traffic into the city where required
incidentally the outer ring road was
completed in 2012 what we know today as
the ORR that was based app is designed
on the basis of the on the basis of the
design given by the CIB of course the
original Orr covered an area of 50
kilometers and today’s Orr covers an
area of 150 kilometers but given that
the city today is 625 square kilometers
visa vie what was then originally
planned for 84 square kilometers it’s a
third larger and one can understand why
that was there but the idea is that the
whole concept of easing traffic and
creating these two ring roads was
something that was planned by the CIB
the second step was to designate
districts so sir which way should I uh I
was extremely particular that I’m going
to try and show you I don’t think you
can see it but the the river district
what you see in green on either side of
the river in the center he wanted this
is the the the Civic district of
Hyderabad to be at the very core and
another important reason important
reason for that was that the heart of
the city did not shift which is
something we see today so the heart
remained where it was and civic
buildings public buildings again the
thoroughfare is the main thoroughfares
were by the river on either side of it
and what you see in pink cutting across
perpendicular to it was the commercial
district the houses in fact in more
all-around residential areas with their
green belts and to the top right to the
northeast the industrial area which is
again today known as the Assam Abbas
Industrial Estate all of these were
designed by the CIB well the next step
was to take ideas and translate them
into action and that is exactly what
they did next so you have the this is
the scene of the river moosi and the
river district the riverbank district as
it was called and
created five kilometers of stone
embankments on either side of the River
Mersey and also filled in a lake over
there so that there would be water
perennially in the city of Hyderabad you
must remember that mu C is a is a
seasonal River so it would have water
only for part of the year but they
dammed it in such a way that it would
have water throughout they also made
public buildings and gardens here you
can see the absol gardens to the north
and thoroughfares on it now this again
was deliberate the reason that they made
public buildings was they feared that if
ever there should be another spate of
the river moosi there should be a
minimum loss of lives and that could
only be guaranteed if there were no
homes there and no homes would be
guaranteed if public buildings look that
place so it was all well thought out so
they the High Court in the distance at
their background there was the first
public building to be designed on the
south bank of the river moosi in the
year 1916 this was followed by the City
College in 1917 and in 1925 they was
maniel Hospital all three of these
buildings were designed by Vincent – a
British architect who was brought in by
the Nizam and he was given a very clear
brief he was told your buildings for
these buildings must represent through
their architectural fabric what the
state stands for they must stand for
communal harmony and social cohesion so
the mandate was very clear it was not an
afterthought it was not something that
was done whimsically so what Vincent –
had to do he had to take in fact in
lintels and Karl and brackets from
temples and combine them with booth of
shahe domes gateways from be the
colonnades from gulbarga so the whole of
the Deccan that stood for Singh
criticism and contrast Opel atomism was
shown through the buildings through
architecture which really is the most
visual form of all arts and this was
something that was meant to last and
last it has the last building to be
built on the riverfront
was the of Sophia’s State Library that
was constructed in 1932 these buildings
may look traditional but there is
nothing traditional about them except
that the way they look except the God
except the architecture
fabric these were contemporary both in
their use and in the materials that we
use to build them with use for example
the High Court the Canaries the old
Canaries had given way to a high court
with modern court and the Amana hospital
amongst the largest allopathic hospitals
in the world when it was designed even
by today’s standards is considered to be
a large hospital second the materials
are CC and steel were just being
introduced as building materials and
here in or the CI be used both RCC and
steel it extensively in their work and
therefore it made Hyderabad one of the
earliest cities in India to use our CC
they also constructed shopping arcades
shopping districts so the passivity
shopping arcade scene here constructed
in 1930 continues to be a very popular
shopping destination in the old city
even today and what can be considered as
Hyderabad first shopping model the Mosin
Jaya market constructed in 1935 but
perhaps what is most meaningful and most
impacting of the work that the CIB did
was their clearing of the slums and
creating homes in 40 years they built
over 3,000 homes in 14 specially
designed localities they started with
the locality of numbly
where the epidemic of plague had begun
and moved both north and south of
nampalli because two unconnected these
residential colonies as they went along
each of these localities had was
self-contained so they had a school they
had a clinic or a hospital they had
playgrounds maidens courtyards and this
is where we come back to where we
started we come back to monopoly and why
did monopoly produce so many footballers
well the answer is really very simple
because they were given the facility
monopoly was designed here you can see
on the map and then on the Google Earth
image was designed around eight grounds
which we used as football grounds and
the way the locality was designed was
that it had it had the
around the football grounds the idea was
that the mothers could watch the
children play in the evenings the
children went out and played safely
right in front of their homes they
practiced and they excelled at what they
did and they turned out to be great
footballers so it was just because the
facility was provided in such a natural
way to them now the houses themselves
they were designed not in the alien BHK
format that we have today but in the
traditional Hyderabadi way so you had a
courtyard in every house you had to
separate zenana influence and you had to
separate McDonough entrance for the men
they were also chibuto outside our
platforms where people could sit and
again all look all the cloacal ities
that were designed were designed in such
a way that there was 60% of the locality
was built upon and 40% was left open as
courtyards and playgrounds so this whole
concept of leaving things open to give
place to breathe went right trickle down
all the way through now mallepalli
didn’t just produce footballers it also
produces playwrights for its birthday
theater personalities and painters so
Shabana means mother comes from
mallepalli so does Jelani Bonham who’s a
greater good poet and Savitha Mekons
who’s Hyderabad among jackpots most
well-known painters so they all came
here and they attribute the atmosphere
of Monopoly gratefully to what their
successive successes have been because
they say the atmosphere was conducive to
dialogue to talk to interact with
community and this is something which we
seem to have forgotten in our designs
today it has been possible to study
Monopoly simply because it is one of the
very few localities that was designed by
the CIB that has that was not destroyed
some localities that were designed by
them like here at the bank have been
destroyed beyond recognition today
so it’s not possible ready to study them
and see what really the impact has been
but the CIB left a very good record of
what they did they published very
meticulous reports every year which
which outlined their work how they you
know what they did how they did it and
so it’s possible to look
these and study and understand what
their intentions were their work was
this town Improvement Trust in
Secunderabad which was then under the
British chose to follow the Hyderabad
model for the CIB and not look at at the
back British press identities like
Madras and Calcutta to see what they
could take from there further afield in
Britain that itself was under growing
massive rebuilding after that between
the two was between World War one and
World War two planners from Britain came
to Hyderabad to see what hide what they
could learn from Hyderabad and take back
in fact a mr. town row planner from the
Riv a wrote that this British Spanish
should come and learn from the Hyderabad
model because they did not build castles
in the clouds but have the means and the
will to translate their ideas into
action
now people make places and places make
people apart from the technical and the
scientific work that the CIB did what
were the very core of their work was the
general well-being the happiness and the
holistic growth of the citizens of
Hyderabad and mallepalli is witness to
that it shows us that seventy years or
eight years on from when it was
constructed it still it still holds
relevance even today and it is
successful as a locality because it was
being used to the maximum potential for
which it was designed so we can really
look back into the past and see what to
take from there so that we can learn but
we have to do this fast and we have to
say what is left because what the CIB
has had done in those forty years is
fast vanishing but we need to look back
and learn and we need to learn so that
we can take Hyderabad safely into the
future thank you
[Applause]
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