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History of Bangalore. Inscription stone at Beguru, Bengaluru, dated to the 9th century CE mentioning the name "Bengaluru" for the first time. Bangalore is the capital city of the state of Karnataka. Bangalore, as a city, was founded by Kempe Gowda I, who built a mud fort at the site in 1537. But the earliest evidence for the existence of a ...
The government museum in Bangalore was established on 18 August 1865, [1] during the period when L.B. Bowring was Chief Commissioner of Mysore State. A formal official notification was issued in the Mysore Government Gazette on 17 April 1866, [1] a copy of which is still preserved in the Karnataka State Archives in Bangalore. The gazette ...
Lal Bagh. Lalbagh Botanical Garden or simply Lalbagh (lit. 'red garden'), is an botanical garden in Bangalore, India, with an over 200-year history. First planned and laid out during the dalavaiship of King Hyder Ali, the garden was later managed under numerous British Superintendents before Indian Independence.
Lakes and tanks in the metropolitan area of Greater Bangalore and the district of Bangalore Urban are reservoirs of varying sizes constructed over a number of centuries by various empires and dynasties for rainwater harvesting. Historically, these reservoirs were primarily either irrigation tanks or for the water supply, with secondary uses ...
The Nandi Hills area in the outskirts of Devanahalli is the site of the upcoming $22 billion, 50 km 2 BIAL IT Investment Region, one of the largest infrastructure projects in the history of Karnataka. [135] All this has earned the state capital, Bangalore, the sobriquet Silicon Valley of India. [136] [137] [138]
The history of the institute dates back to 1847, when the Bangalore Lunatic Asylum was founded. In 1925, the Government of Mysore renamed the asylum as the Mental Hospital. The Mysore Government Mental Hospital became the first institute in India for postgraduate training in psychiatry. [2]
British Period Engravings of the King Tipu Palace at Bangalore by Robert Home (1752–1834) The Old Palace in the Fort, Bangalore by Albert Thomas Penn, 1870 King Tipu Sultan's Rashke Jannat Mahal (Summer Palace), in Bangalore, India, is an example of Indo-Islamic architecture and was the summer residence of the Mysorean ruler Tipu Sultan.
The Bangalore fort, ca. 1791, was described as follows: [10] Bangalore, like Madras, had a fort, with a pettah, or fortified town, outside it.This lay-out was a feature of almost all the cities or settlements in India, the fort providing a place of refuge for most of the inhabitants if the pettah was in danger of capture.