Hayathnagar
mandal in Rangareddy district, Telangana
Hayathnagar is a busy residential locality of Hyderabad in Ranga Reddy district of the Indian state of Telangana. It is mandal headquarter of Hayathnagar mandal of Hayathnagar revenue division. Hayathnagar forms circle No 3 in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. There are four wards – Nagole (11) Mansoorabad (12), Hayathnagar (13) and B. N. Reddy Nagar (14) – in this circle. It lies on National Highway 65.
History
In 1620, then ruler of Golconda, Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah, decided to move his capital away from Golconda and Hyderabad. He selected a site about 6 miles (9.7 km) east of then Hyderabad, in what is today Saroornagar. The fort was named after himself and called Sultan Nagar Fort. The construction of this fort was abandoned by his wife Hayat Bakshi Begum who considered his sudden death in 1625 a bad omen. Later a new settlement known as Hayathnagar was established further east by the Begum.
“Hayathnagar” enters the record as mandal in Rangareddy district, Telangana. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hayathnagar, mandal and Rangareddy can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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