What is the history behind the name Bengaluru?

 The famous city Bengaluru has history to get this name. There is an undocumented story which states that the 12th century Hoysala king Veera Ballala II lost his way while he went for hunting in a forest. He was hungry and tired, he came across a poor woman who offered him benda kalu (means boiled pulses). The king was very happy and he showed his gratitude by naming that place as Benda-Kal-uru (uru means town), that is a town of boiled pulses). Over the time it became Bengaluru.

Onee other opinion says, the historian Suryanath Kamath stated that the name Bengaluru is derived from the Kannada word Benga which means the Indian Kino tree which grows in a large quantity in this region.

Other theories tell that the city was earlier named as Venkaturu because Kempe Gowda, the founder of Bengaluru had built several Venkataramana temples across the city. It was also called as Benacha Kalluru because for having the large quantity of Benacha Kallu (quartz stones) in this region.

In 2005 the government of Karnataka accepted the proposal given by U. R. Ananthamurrhy, a writer to rename the city from Bangalore to Bengaluru. On November 1st, 2014 the Karnataka Government officially changed the name.

Bengaluru, the capital city of Karnataka is also known as the Garden City of India for having innumerable parks and greenary. Lalbhag and Cubbon Park are the famous gardens in Bangalore. People like Bengaluru mainly due to its pleasant atmosphere for this reason people migrate to Bengaluru from different parts of the country.