In early days, Secunderabad was a small town with three major villages, namely Tirumalagiri, Bowenpally and Alwal. The name "Bowenpally" derives from Bhuvanapalli. It is named after the King of Chalukya, Trailokya Malla Bhuvanesvara, from the 10th century. The State Archeology Department found an inscription on a pillar dating from the Chalukya times, thus confirming the name.

Bowenpally is part of the Secunderabad Cantonment area, where the British held sway for several years. The old village of Bowenpally with its people-friendly streets still exists. One among the few old structures left is an old shrine with some rough sculptures of a bull with distinct kakatiyan design, near the Bowenpally Police Station.

Location
Anna is in blore.... Bowenpally is now a sprawling suburb of Secunderabad. Locating it on a Hyderabad map is very simple. The Hyderabad airport has a single 0927 (east–west) runway. Bowenpally is just north of this unmistakable landmark. It is also the meeting point of two national highways: NH-7 (marked as "Nizamabad Road" on the map) and NH-9 (marked as "Pune Road" on the map). In fact Bowenpally serves as the gateway to the city from these two highways.

Sub-regions
Bowenpally now has two major sub-regions: Old Bowenpally and New Bowenpally. New Bowenpally appears to more developed and very close to the city, although there are good colonies in both Old and New Bowenpally. There is also a very old theatre, Kalyan, in Old Bowenpally.

New Bowenpally
New Bowenpally has two areas: pedda thokatta and chinna thokatta. Pedda thokatta connects to Old Bowenpally and chinna thokatta connects to Tarbund, another region of Secunderabad.

From New Bowenpally it connects to both NH7 highway towards Medchal and NH9 highway towards Balangar industrial area. There is also Old Airport road and burial grounds and Mount Carmel School in this area, also called Old Bombay Highway. Balanagar has two theatres, Shobana and Vimal. Recently, Shobana Theatre was converted into a shopping complex. Very high traffic is observed throughout the day, and many buses and other vehicles commute from here towards Secunderabad city via New Bowenpally.

New Bowenpally has a police Station, post Office, library, hospital, electrity department, school and park all located very close to each other on the NH7 highway towards Medchal. Premises for the Indian Airforce Academy and recruitment for both technical and non-technical trades in New Bowenpally are located on the way to Balanagar from Bowenpally.

New Bowenpally comes into the purely cantonment area, along with other surrounding areas surrounding this, such as Tarbund, Tirumalagiri and Alwal. The cantonment has their own administration and tax departments, including facilities such as water and construction approvals.

APSRTC operates buses on the route from New Bowenpally to Secunderabad, including bus routes 29, 30, 31, 226, 229, et al.

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