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The earliest Sikh Gurudwara in Karnataka is the Guru Nanak Jhira Sahib at Bidar. It was built in traditional Sikh architecture style, at a sacred place located at Bidar in Bidar District. It is also called Nanak Jhira, where Jhira means a spring of water exists. Legend says that Guru Nanak halted here on his way to Sri Lanka in 1512. During ...
The Suvarna Vidhana Soudha has been so named to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Karnataka's formation day. [2] The building is a four floored structure with a total built-up area of 60,398 sq.m. and consists of an Assembly hall that seats 300, a Council hall for 100 members, a 450-seat Central Hall, 38 ministerial chambers and 14 meeting halls.
Kodava settlements in Coorg are in the form of Okka family groups that are scattered across agricultural and forested holdings, where traditional Ainmane houses form focal meeting points in the rural landscape. The emergence of townships, as such, has been a relatively recent phenomenon and many of the main towns in Kodagu are inhabited by ...
With the need for a more spacious quarters, a new building with two floors to accommodate both the houses was planned and the foundation stone of the building was laid by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India on 13 July 1951 under the guidance of Sri K.C. Reddy, the first Chief Minister of Karnataka, then Mysore state, (1947-1952 ...
Over the centuries, before and after the Common Era, the region was ruled by different, numerous dynasties, mostly South Indian ones, like the Rashtrakutas, the Western Chalukyas, the Hoysalas, and others, until it was ruled by the last dynasty, the Wadiyars, the government of whose kingdom was transferred to them by its superior predecessor, the Vijayanagara Empire, in 1399, and gradually ...
Karnataka has a parliamentary system of government with two democratically elected houses, ... Karnataka, is the traditional ... Karnataka state government advised ...
The government museum in Bengaluru was established on 18 August 1865, [1] during the period when L.B. Bowring was Chief Commissioner of Mysore State. A formal official notification was issued in the Mysore Government Gazette on 17 April 1866, [1] a copy of which is still preserved in the Karnataka State Archives in Bengaluru. The gazette ...
A traditional house of a Mangalorean Catholic family, constructed using olden-style architecture. Their traditional houses have spacious porticos, red cement or terra cotta floors, and are topped with Mangalore tiles with fruit trees outside the house. This style of house has been borrowed from the other Mangalorean communities and are only ...