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Kempe Gowda I (27 June 1510 — 1569) locally venerated as Nadaprabhu Kempe Gowda, [2] [3] or commonly known as Kempe Gowda, was a governor under the Vijayanagara Empire in early-modern India. [4] [5] He is famous for the development of Bengaluru Pete in the 16th century. Kempegowda erected many Kannada inscriptions across the region. [6] [7] [8]
Inscription stone at Beguru, Bengaluru, dated to the 9th century CE mentioning the name "Bengaluru" for the first time. Bengaluru is the capital city of the state of Karnataka. Bengaluru, as a city, was founded by Kempe Gowda I, who built a mud fort at the site in 1537. But the earliest evidence for the existence of a place called Bengaluru ...
Thereafter, the fort was completed without any mishap. In her memory, Kempe Gowda built a temple in her name in Koramangala. [5] Thus, Kempe Gowda's dream fructified and the Bengaluru Pete evolved around the Mud fort called the Bangalore Fort. [3] In 1637–38, the Bangalore Fort under Kempe Gowda's rule was very prosperous.
The famous Kempe Gowda I, the founder of Bangalore City, was the most distinguished of the Palegars of Magadi. [69] The family of Kempe Gowda migrated from Kanchi in the 15th century. [66] The Devanahalli Fort was built by Malla Bhaire Gowda to immortalise Bhaire Gowda, the headman of one of the seven clans that migrated from Kanchi. [73]
Kempe Gowda is depicted in a standing position holding a sword in his right hand, above a 20 feet high reinforced concrete slabbing. The overall height of the statue is 108 feet, weighing about 218 tonnes, sculpted using majorly steel and bronze which includes 120 tonnes of iron and 98 tonnes of bronze.
Hiriya Kempe Gowda (Kempe Gowda the First) built a fort in the adjoining village of Bengaluru and developed it as his new capital, probably due to its strategic location and slightly cooler climate being at a higher altitude. It was his son, Immadi Kempe Gowda, who had the famous watchtowers built in the four directions of the new city.
The Bengaluru Pete, established in 1537 around the Mud Fort, built by Kempe Gowda I as the nucleus, with an area of 2.24 square kilometres (1 sq mi), has expanded to the present sprawling city of 741 square kilometres (286 sq mi) embracing a multi ethnic population of 5.7 million; as per Census of India 2001, [2] the present population is ...
After him came his son Kempaveerappa Gowda, who assumed the name of his grandfather Mummadi Kempe Gowda (kempe Gowda Ill) (c 1705-1728 A D ) and was the last king of Magadi Chiefs. Alalukuppe record (1667) speaks of Kempa-Veerappa Gowda building a Matha at Kashi and granting Aralukuppe village for the maintenance of the matha.