Introduction
Bangalore is the capital of Karnataka, India. Though the name has been changed to Bengaluru on the 1st of November 2006, people living in Bangalore or even India for that matter still prefer calling it by its original name. Looking back in time, history states that actual settlement in Bangalore only began in the year 1537. It was in this year that Kempe Gowda built a magnificent mud fort within the city and made it or rather called it a province of the Vijayanagara Empire. Soon the Bangalore cantonment was built which aided in the movement of a huge number of immigrants from various parts of India, including Chennai, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and some places in North India. For almost 300 years after that Bangalore was still under the province of Mysore. It was only in the year 1831, that the British took control of the Mysore Kingdom from the then ruler King Krishna Raja Wodeyar the third and moved the administrative capital to Bangalore, mainly influenced by the mild climate the city used to once enjoy owning to the fact it is located on the Deccan Plateau which is over 3000 feet above sea level. Bangalore is also referred to as the Silicon City of India. It was due to the successful establishment of software firms after the liberalization of India’s economy which led to the growth of IT industry. Bangalore accounts for nearly 35% of India’s software exports. Bangalore is at the moment Asia’s fastest growing cosmopolitan city emerging to international highlight. There is no reason to wonder why it is listed as the best places to do business in the world as surveyed by CNN-Time Warner.