Bollarum
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Bollarum (also spelled as Bolaram, Bolarum, and Bollaram) is a town in the suburbs of Hyderabad, India, no estado indiano de Andhra Pradesh.
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Bollarum is divided into a few distinct localities called Doveton Bazar, Chintal Bazar, Sadar Bazar, Risala Bazar, Poineer Bazar, Burton Guda and Macha Bollarum (which is separated from the others mentioned by a railway track that has a meter gauge line and a broad gauge line). A Part of Bollarum is in Hyderabad district and a part is in Ranga Reddy District.
It is a famous soccer playing town. It has many native players who were on India's national soccer team. Bollarum is also an educational hub of Hyderabad because it has numerous schools and colleges among which are the prestigious St. Anne's Girl School and College, Valerian Grammar School and a few Post Graduate Colleges. Also, an international college of business and commerce. It has a big bazaar named Sadar Bazaar which has many textile, jewelry, general shops and Money lending shops. It is also a popular place for hindu temples, to name a few: Ayappa temple which is one of the oldest Ayappa temples in Andhra Pradesh and the Muthyaalamma temple where every weekend is like a carnival, Hanuman Temple, Mahankali Temple etc. Bollarum is a cantonment area.
Bolarum is well connected to different parts of the city with regular bus service provided by the state road transport corporation (APSRTC). It is also connected with regular local train service provided by the south central railways. The general population have been staying here for generations and the town has just started developing new layouts on its periphery. Celebration is a part of life for Bolarumites and you can find people celebrating festivals with pomb and gaiety, the popular one being the yearly Jatara, dushera-where an effigy of Ravana is burnt, Holi, Divali, Sankrantri.
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The majority of the population is Hindu. You can find people of all religions living in harmony. There is also a considerable amount of Jain population here. There are couple of mosques, and a Gurudwara too. The population of Bollarum was about 20,000 till 1986. But in 2005 it grew up to about 50,000. Most of the population are employees and work in Railways, Industries, defence, offices, etc. More than half of the area used to be cultivated but now every inch of the land is used for house construction.
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Bollarum has a unique story about its name. When the British were laying out the railway line through this town, an officer asked a person what was the name of the place to set up a station there. The person was an ardent worshipper of Rama and obviously he couldn't speak English, so he greeted the gentleman by saying "Bolo Ram" which eventually became Bollarum, also spelled as bolaram or bolarum.
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Bollarum also has a very big Church built in European architecture (Holy Trinity Church), built by a member of British Royal family (Queen Vicoria), which is why Queen Elizabeth visited this church and attended the service on her Wedding Anniversary day in 1980s on her visit to India. Bolarum also has another important building but not very well known of its history. It is now an Officer's mess opposite to the church and Ayyappa Temple. When Sardar Vallabhai Patel, the first Defence Minister, came to Hyderabad along with the Indian army to annex Hyderabad state to the independent Indian Republic, he stayed in this building and negotiated with the Nizam.
It also houses the Rastrapati Nilayam, the equivalent of Rashtrapati Bhavan in new Delhi. This serves as the house/office of the president during his yearly soujourn to south of India. During the Presidents Southern Soujurn, this building literally converts into the president's office. Bolarum , being a cantonment has good many old European structured bunglows and one of them - The Chateau, close to the Valerian Grammar School, housed Winston Churchill during his early days with the Raj (British) empire. He was a captain with the British army then. Bolarum forms an integral part of the Secunderabad Cantonment, supposedly the largest in India. The other imporant landmarks for this town are:
1. Rashtrapati Nilayam
2. Holy Trinity Church
3. Chateau (Churchill Home)
4. Macha Bolarm market - The old vegetable market. The villagers get their produce/vegetable in train and then sell it in this market, which is just next to the railway station.
5. The Raythu Bazar - The new vegetable market, which is more organizd and regulated by government.
6. Bolarum Golf Course - The only 18 hole golf course in the entire city of hyderabd. This is maintained by the Indian army and is not open to general public. You either have to be a defence personal or affilaited with the secunderbad club.
7. LRMG College - One of the oldest collges in the city of hyderbad. It was constructed in the year 1926. It has a huge and magnificent building with a big auditorium. It now is in a very bad shape and needs immediate attention.
8. RSI Club: The Rajender Singhji Institue is again a club for the defence personnels only. It also has a huge olympic sized swimming pool very close to it.
9. Bolarum Library, clse to lakadwal cross roads.
10. St. Anns Provincilate, Ayyapa Temple, St. Anns Girls school all on the same road stretch.
Bollarum has one of the oldest and best Golf courses in the nation.
