Bangalore, officially known as Bengaluru, is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of over ten million, making it a megacity and the third-most populous city and fifth-most populous urban agglomeration in India. Modern Bengaluru had its beginning in 1537 by a vassal of the Vijayanagara Empire, Kempé Gowda I, who aligned with the Vijayanagara empire to campaign against Gangaraja who he defeated and expelled to Kanchi, and who built a mud-brick fort for the people at the site that would become the central part of modern Bangalore.
1) EGK on M.G. Road in the 1970s.
2) Main Street, 1890
3) Bullock Cart at Jewelry’s Street
4) The Market in Bangalore in 1880’s
5) Ulsur temple 1868
6) St. Josephs College
7) Lal Bagh Gardens 1860
8) Girl Students and Teacher Leaving their School in Bangalore. (1944-45)
9) Oriental Building
10) Halsur Tank, Bangalore
11) Bangalore Street Scene. 1910
12) A view of Brigade Road
13) The Maharaja’s Palace 1894
14) New Opera
15) Gymkhana, Bangalore. 1902
16) Braid Bararacks, Brigade Road
17) Head Works and Sluice, Chamaraj Water Works, Bangalore taken in the 1890s
18) St. Mark’s Church and Band Stand
19) The Market in Bangalore. in 1880’s
20) A group of 24 girls and their teacher at the London Mission Girls’ Boarding School, Bangalore, taken by Henry Dixon in the 1860s.
