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It is an artificial lake in Hyderabad. It was created by damming the Musi River in 1920 by the last Nizam of Hyderabad (Osman Ali Khan) for providing a drinking water source to Hyderabad. A guest house called ‘Sagar Mahal’ overlooking the lake, now a heritage building, was the summer resort of the erstwhile Nizam.