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Born: 1537. Bangalore -- Bengalooru, to the locals, derives from Bendha-kaal-ooru, "the town of boiled beans". Legend holds that a king, lost and starving, was so grateful for a meal of boiled beans courtesy a poor forest woman that he named the area in the meal's honour. In 1537 Kempe Gowda, an official of the Vijayanagar Empire, erected a little mud fort with four towers that, today, has metamorphosed into the fastest growing city in Asia. In the interim, Bangalore changed hands from the Vijayanagar kings, to the Muslim Sultanate of Bijapur, to the Wadiyars of Srirangapattinam, to Haider Ali and his son Tipu Sultan, to the British who set up a cantonment and handed over administration to the Maharaja of Mysore in 1881. Post-Independence, Bangalore became the capital of Mysore state in 1956, then retained capital status when Karnataka state was created in 1973.
Inputs from Gita Arvamudan and Kavita in Bangalore.
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