The two urban settlements of Bangalore – city and cantonment – which had developed as independent entities merged into a single urban centre in 1949. The present Kannada title, Bengalūru, was declared the official identify of town in 2006. In 1537 CE, Kempé Gowdā– a feudal ruler under the Vijayanagara Empire– established a mud fort thought of to be the foundation of modern Bengaluru and its oldest areas, or petes, which exist to the current day. After the fall of Vijayanagar empire in sixteenth century, the Mughals offered Bangalore to Chikkadevaraja Wodeyar (1673–1704), the then ruler of the Kingdom of …