Bangalore Localities - Old and New Names

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• Bengaluru - renaming spree

Albert Victor Road → Alur Venkata Rao Road (A V Road)
Austin Town → F Kittel Nagar
Benson Town → Kadamba Nagar
Cavalry Road → Kamaraja Road
Cox Town → Jeevanahalli
Cubbonpet Main Road → T M Naganna Road
Doddakunte → Sarvagna Nagar
East End Road → R.V.Road
Fort Main Road → Krishna Rajendra Wadiyar
Frazer Town – Pulakeshi Nagar,
Grant Road → Vittal Mallya Road
Irwin Circle → Professor Shivashankar Circle
Kanakanapalya Main Road → Ashoka Pillar Road
Double Road → Kengal Hanumanthaiah Road
MacIver Town → Shantala Nagar
Miller’s Road → Basaveshwara Road
Mission Road → Kalinga Rao
Murphy Town → Hoysala Nagar
Residency Road → Field Marshal Cariappa Road
Richmond Town → Sir Mirza Ismail Nagar
Ringwood Circle → Kantharaj Urs Circle
Sampangiramnagar Main Road → Raja Ram Mohan Roy Road
Seppings Road – Sri Devi Muthyalamma
Sidney Road → Kasturba Road
South Parade → MG Road
Sudda Guntepalya Road → Christ School Road
Tasker Town → Swami Shivanandapuram
The Oriental Circle → Anil Kumble Circle
Williams Town → K C Reddy Nagar

 Vijayanagar East is popularly known as RPC Layout (Railway Parallel Colony Layout),since this layout is along the railway track. It has been recently renamed as Hampi Nagar. Hampi was the capital of the Vijayanagar Empire. Vijayanagar also houses a large Public Library, which is one of the largest in Karnataka.Hampi Nagar

Hoysala Nagar: OLD NAME: Murphy Town. Sir Mirza Ismail Nagar: OLD NAME:Richmond Town

Swami Shivanandapuram : OLD NAME:Tasker Town

K C Reddy Nagar: OLD NAME:Williams Town

Jeevana Halli: OLD NAME: Cox Town . A.R.Cox, who was designated as the collector of C(Civil) and M (Military) station from 1912 to November 1917. The Cox Town locality is named after him.

Kittel Nagar: OLD NAME: Austin Town. Austin Town was named after a one-time British Resident Sir James Austin. Austin Town is now Kittel nagar after Ferdinand Kittel who compiled the first Kannada dictionary 

B.I.Rice Nagar: OLD NAME:Thomas Town is B.I.Rice nagar after the archaeologist.

Cooke Town: Cooke Town is named after G H Cooke, President of the Bangalore Civil and Military Station Municipality between 1928 and 1934, with the Mayo Hall being constructed during his tenure.

Pulakeshinagar: OLD NAME:Fraser Town. Fraser Town, which had been named after Sir Stuart Fraser, the scholar who was a tutor of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV, is now Pulakeshinagar

Shantala Nagar: OLD NAME: MacIver Town. L.J. MacIver was Collector and president of the Municipal Commission  between 1934 and 1937.

Kadamba Nagar: OLD NAME: Benson Town. Dr. P H Benson has Benson was a durbar Surgeon.