Burgula Ramakrishna Rao

Burgula Ramakrishna Rao was the 2nd and last Chief Minister of the erstwhile Hyderabad State. Prior to the independence of India and the political integration of the princely states into the Union, he was among the Telugu-speaking leaders to resist the Nizam in the princely state of Hyderabad. He was a multilingual academic, known for his scholarship in Sanskrit and Telugu. He was also a poet and translator.