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The Bangalore High School was started by the Mysore Government in 1858, and Bishop Cotton Boys' School was started in 1865. In 1945 when World War II came to an end, King George Royal Indian Military Colleges was started at Bengaluru by King George VI, the school is popularly known as Bangalore Military School [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
Kempe Gowda I, Modern Bangalore was founded by a feudatory of the Vijayanagara Empire, who built a mud fort in the year 1537. Kempe Gowda also referred to the new town as his "gandu bhoomi" or "Land of Heroes". [5] Within Bangalore, the town was divided into petes (IPA:) or market. The town had two main streets: Chikkapete Street ran east ...
Pallavaram Lake (or Pallavaram periya eri, literally meaning 'big lake'), once a sprawling water body covering about 189 acres, has shrunk to a small patch on the lines of a pond on one side and a hillock of garbage on the other. The dumping of garbage from all the 42 wards of the Pallavaram Municipality for nearly a decade is the main reason ...
This room served as a chapel-cum-schoolroom. In the morning it was used as a school for children; in the afternoon as a library and a reading room and on Sundays for public worship. A new school building was opened in 1854; it is linked to St. John's Church, Bangalore. The school operated as a middle school until 1961.
Bishop Cotton Girls' School (1865) Cathedral High School (1866) Baldwin Boys' High School (1880) Baldwin Girls' High School (1880) St. Joseph's Indian High School (1904) St Anthony's Boys' School (1913) Clarence High School (1914) National High School (1917) St. Germain High School (1944) Bangalore Military School (1946)
The National Public School group was founded in 1959 by Dr. K.P. Gopalkrishna, an educationist with a visionary approach to schooling. The first NPS school was established in Bangalore, Karnataka, and quickly gained a reputation for its innovative curriculum and focus on all-round development.
First Assistant. Archaeological Survey of South India in 1882. He worked as acting lecturer on Art and Geometry in the School of Arts. Madras, between 1884 and 1888. He was Professional Adviser to Government on the conservation of ancient monuments; Member for Archaeology on the Sub-Committee on the Public Services Commission in 1887.
An 1854 map of Bangalore showing Medaraningahalli (spelt Maderingenhully) the north-west. The inscription records the donation of the village of Medaraninganahalli. However, this village no longer exists, as its lands were acquired for the construction of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) campus. [ 16 ]