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Bangalore,
officially Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of
Karnataka. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part
of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous
city and fifth-most populous urban agglomeration.
It is home to numerous public sectors such as heavy industries,
software companies, aerospace, telecommunications, machine tools,
heavy equipment, and defence establishments. Bangalore is
known as the Silicon Valley of India due to its pre-eminent position
as the leading contributor to India's IT industry.[3] Bangalore has
developed into one of India's major economic hubs and was mentioned
by CNN as one of the "best places to do business in the wired
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Though historically attested
at least since 900 CE, Kempe Gowda I, is widely regarded as the founder
of modern Bangalore, he built a mud fort and established it as a
province of the Vijayanagara Empire. During the British Raj, it became a
centre for colonial rule in South India. The establishment of the
Bangalore Cantonment brought in large numbers of migrants from other
parts of the country. Since independence in 1947, Bangalore grew to
become the capital of Karnataka state. Today, as a large and growing
metropolitan in the developing world, Bangalore is home to some of the
most well-recognized colleges and research institutions in India, and
has the second-highest literacy rate in the nation. |
