CONTENTS Preface xi List of Abbreviationsxiii Imaginations of Bengaluru 1 Narendar Pant PART I: BENGALURU TO BANGALORE The Fall of the Pete, 4 March 1791 31 Mark Wilks The Storming of the Fort, 21 March 1791 43 Thomas Munro A Diary in 1800 47 Francis Buchanan PART II: CANTONMENT AND THE ANGLO-INDIAN LEGACY The Defence of Lieutenant-Colonel John Bell, 63 27 February 1810 The Mutiny of the 84th, October 1815 77 A Weslyan View 82 Rev. Arthur Williams Whitefield 90 Benjamin Lewis Rice Muslim Citizens of the Civil and Military Station 93 M. Kantharaj Urs PART III: EDUCATING BANGALORE Miss Manning and Zenana Education 99 Rajamma Thamboo Chetty Enumerating Education 101 Benjamin Lewis Rice The Underdog as Scientist 104 Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV Accessing Education Abroad 107 C.R. Reddy Examinations and Merit 109 Mirza M. Ismail PART IV: JN PURSUIT OF THE MODERN The Coming of Electricity 117 K. Sheshadri lyer, T.R.A. Thumboo Chctty and P.N. Krishnamurti Son of My sore 123 Harianna Investigate, Educate, Organise 125 M. Visvesvaraya Workers of the City, Unite 137 Taking Off 146 L.C. McCarty The Birth of the Infosys Saga 151 PART V: GUARDIAN STATE The Plague 173 C. Sreenivasaiengar and K. Sheshadri lyer Moving out of Risk 178 Campbell's Directory The Vokkaliga Case 186 Vokkaligara Sangha Living Through the Debate on Reservation 189 K.R. Srinivasa lyengar PART VI: BANGALORE TO BENGALURU 198 Response to Gokak 202 U.R, Ananthamurthy An Agenda for a Global City 211 Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF) Warm, Warmer 215 U.S. De Getting up to Speed 222 Kishor G, Bhat Governing Change 233 Christoph Dittrich The Built Environment 250 Srikltmar M. Menon and Nita Soans PART VII: THE FUTURE IN THE PAST Of Men and Ramrajya 265 MX Gandhi In Science We Trust 270 Mirza M. Ismail Epilogue 275 Notes and References 281 About the Editors 291