From Where the City Began: A View from Bangalore Fort, 1900 Photo
A rare 1900 stereo photo, a view from Bangalore Fort, from where the city began. The nucleus of the city began as a cluster of settlements around a modest mud fort, built in 1537 by Kempe Gowda, a chieftain under the Vijayanagara Empire. A little over two centuries later, in 1758, Hyder Ali took control of the fort and reinforced it with stone. His son, Tipu Sultan, further strengthened the defences, turning the structure into what was considered an impregnable fortress.
However, during the Third Anglo-Mysore War, the British forces relentlessly battered its walls, eventually breaching them. The fall of the fort marked a decisive moment in the defeat of the once-powerful Tipu Sultan’s Mysore Army and the expansion of British control in the region. In the foreground, two people appear to be having a good time. Behind them stretches the vast expanse of the city—once a modest settlement, now a sprawling metropolis. This very spot marks where the city all began.
Did you know – from a garden city where all pensioners wanted to retire, to the busy technology city that it is today.
Past posts – Raja Ravi Varma Commemorative Stamp Folder., Casino Hotel At Cochin – Old Postcard 1968., Lord Kitchener of British Indian Army, 1909 Print., Old Book 1892 – Albuquerque. .,
