How did Bangalore come to be?? We dont know, but supposedly a curse the british cast upon us. lets see what wikipedia has to say:
| 1638 | Bengalooru is captured by the Marathas |
| 1687 | Bengalooru is part of the Mughal Empire |
| 1759 | Haider Ali stages a coup and Bengalooru, along with the Kingdom of Mysore comes under his rule |
| 1760 | Haider Ali designs plans for Lal Bagh, importing plants from Delhi, Lahore and Multan |
| 1782 | Tipu Sultan, son of Haider Ali, ascends to the throne after the death of his father |
| 1799 | Bengalooru is consolidated into the British East India Empire after the defeat and death of Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War. |
| 1868 | The Attara Kacheri, or the Karnataka High Court is constructed under the order of Sir Mark Cubbon, commissioner of Mysore. |
| 1898 | The bubonic plague cripples Bengalooru. |
| 1905 | Bengalooru becomes the first city in India to have electricity. |
So the name was Bengalooru but somewhere down the line it evolved into Bangalore, and the british were the factor responsible for this evolution. So by renaming our beloved city what is it we are trying to achieve? Reverse evolution? is that good?
Lets see what other curses the british gave us. Oh btw we dint have a country to call as India, So do we start from there change the name of the country. the political system, the railways, english language, schools and what not. the list just goes on. so its my mistake trying to list them out. So do we change all that?
The British were in india since 1612. None of us know how any place in this vast country was then. there were traders for almost a 100years and their rule began in 1757 and ruled till 1947. So they had been here for almost 400 years, a 100 as traders and the 300 years as invaders and rulers. The did what they did during that time, good or bad but can we undo it? Can we undo 400 years of british influence. As traders the influence might have been more subtle whatever little that would rub on to each other due to an interaction. but as rulers they imposed themselves on our ancestors and they left their influence. Generations of our forefathers, imagine our family lineages, we the people of this land that we today call as india, all our forefathers who lived upto the independence day 15 august 1947, knew only british india. they knew they had a heritage of their own, one they should be and are very proud of. but they lived around the british and they were ruled by them.
We only know this as our country India since the last 50 years. so how can we undo or let me put it bluntly, how can we dare to try to undo the evolution that has taken place in the last 400 years. Are we trying to say undo history and say we were never ruled by the british? Do we want to be the Ostrich and hide our heads?
Atleast to me the answer is clear. i respect our history. if we were ruled by the invaders for 400 years, then that was it. do i feel anger and shame, yea i do. but did it happen? yes it did. so accept it, and try to make it better. yes try to get the past glory back, but not by changing the name to an older one. Get a new one, if you think the current is obsolete, but get new glory. Glory that is equal or be brazen and say even better than the past glory. but trying to remove the british 400 years from our past we are forgetting we are also removing our own lineages, forefathers who lived here for those 400 years.
Stop all this nonsense and talk some sense indian politicians.....
