Bangalore Through Centuries

Bangalore Through the Centuries was first published in 1970 and has been one of the earliest landmarks in the historiography of Bengaluru. The city’s tumultuous past has been recounted beautifully by Shri. M. Fazlul Hasan-from the city’s founding by Kempe Gowda, its capture by the Bijapur Sultanate and the Mughals, its purchase by Chikka Deva Raja Wodeyar, and the wars between Tipu Sultan and the East India Company. The book traverses through the Cantonment town of the colonial era and the ambitious project of post-independent India up to 1970.

Through the power struggles, administrational challenges and wars that governed the city’s history, Shri. M. Fazlul Hasan embellishes his discoveries with stories of people, civil society and culture of this charming city-a metropolis thrust into international relevance due to its global standing in the fields of innovation and technology.

In order to understand the inherent character of this charming city, it is important to take a step back to unravel the layers that have made the city the palimpsest that it is today. This book by Shri. M. Fazlul Hasan, does just that: Reminiscence of the past. Celebration of the present. Preparation for the future.