11 Facts About Bengaluru Pete

Bengaluru Pete, established in 1537 around the Mud Fort, built by Kempe Gowda I as the nucleus, with an area of 2.

Old Bengaluru Pete, structured in the contemporary style of deep networks of crowded streets, richly represented the multi cultural identity, social history, and economic geography of the times which are considered as a hallmark in the planning and design of any urban agglomerate.

Bengaluru Pete was the great grand son of Jaya Gowda who established the Yelahankanada Prabhu clan, in 1418 AD, and whose principality was in Yelahanka, north of the present day Bangalore.

Bengaluru Pete persevered with his vision and got permission from the King Achutaraya, the ruler of the empire, to build a new city for himself.

One version for the site selection process for the Bengalore Bengaluru Pete is that during a hunting expedition along with his advisor Gidde Gowda, he went westward of Yelahanka and reached a village called Shivasamudra some 10 miles from Yelahanka where, in a tranquil atmosphere under a tree, he visualised building a suitable city with a fort, a cantonment, tanks, temples and people of all trades and professions to live in it for his future capital.

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Bengaluru Pete as built by Kempegowda I had two main streets, namely the Chikkapet Street, which ran east–west, and the Doddapet Street, which ran north–south.

In 1638, Bengaluru Pete was conquered by Bijapur Sultan who ruled for the next 50 years.

At this stage, the old Bengaluru Pete had expanded to a circumference of 5 kilometres with prosperous, well laid out streets and flourishing shops [the market stretched from the north gate – the present Avenue road – of the Bengaluru Pete to the oval fort].

The Bengaluru Pete became not only a commercial centre but a military centre of strategic importance.

Bengaluru Pete initially developed as a pedestrian precinct with the public spaces evolving with bazaar streets, temple squares, lakes and maidans .

But, under the Wodeyars' rule, during the British Raj, in the 19th century, public gardens developed along with the suburbs, adjoining the traditional Bengaluru Pete, following western planning concepts with wider roads.