Osmania University: Epic in Granite

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Mir Osman Ali Khan, the last of the Nizams, after whom the university was named, said at the opening of the Arts College building “God be praised that this gorgeous edifice is now ready. This structure has no parallel in the world or in India for beauty, grandeur and nobility. The architectural style of the Arts College is like the Urdu language, the manifestation of the Hindu and Muslim styles of architecture and its façade, its pillars and its portals portray the culture an arts of the two people.” To describe the magnificence of the Arts College is bound to end up as a treatise on architecture.

The great granite structure, which reveals such architectural extravaganza, conceals a lot of history of the romance of conceiving, planning and building this elegance in stone. It was the work of Ali Raza and Zain Yar Jung. Sir Patrick Geddes selected the present site of the university and soon the two eminent architects of the State Ali Raza and Zain Yar Jung took off in 1930 on an extensive tour of nearly the entire world to study the various schools of educational architecture. The tour began at Madras from where the duo went to Colombo and then to Japan where they visited University of Osaka and from there sailed to the west of the United states.

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