M. Visvesvaraya was born on 15 September 1861 in Muddenahalli, a village in Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka, India. He was a civil engineer and statesman who served as the Diwan of Mysore State for 25 years. He was also the first Indian engineer to be knighted by the British Crown.
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