Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya KCIE
FASc, more commonly known as Sir MV, was an Indian Civil Engineer and statesman
and the 19th Diwan of Mysore, serving from 1912 to 1919. He received India's
highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955. He was knighted as a Knight
Commander of the British Indian Empire by King George V for his contributions
to the public good. His birthday, 15 September, is celebrated as Engineers' Day
in India, Sri Lanka and Tanzania in his memory. He was the Chief Engineer of
Krishna Raja Sagara dam in the north-west suburb of Mysuru city, and also
served as one of the Chief Engineers of the flood protection system for the
city of Hyderabad.
Biography
Visvesvaraya was born in a Telugu
Brahmin family, to Mokshagundam Srinivasa and Venkatalakshamma. Hailing from
the Mokshagundam village in present Andhra Pradesh He took a job as an
assistant engineer with the Public Works Department of Bombay, and later was
invited to join the Indian Irrigation Commission.
Works
• Visvesvaraya, M (1920),
Reconstructing India, P. S. King & son, ltd, OCLC 2430680
• Visvesvaraya, M (1936), Planned
economy for India, Bangalore: Bangalore Press, OCLC 19373044
• Visvesvaraya, M (1951), Memories
of my working life, Bangalore, OCLC 6459729
• Visvesvaraya, Mokshagundam
(1932), Unemployment in India; its causes and cure, Bangalore: The Bangalore
Press, OCLC 14348788
• Visvesvaraya, Mokshagundam
(1917), Speeches, Bangalore: Govt. Press, OCLC 6258388
• Engineer of Hirakud Dam.
• A Brief Memoir of my complete working life, Government Press, Bangalore, 1959