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Whitefield is a neighbourhood of Bangalore in the state of Karnataka, India. Established in the late 1800s as a settlement for the Eurasians and Anglo Indians of Bangalore, Whitefield remained a quaint little settlement to the east of Bangalore city till the late 1990s when the local IT boom turned it as a major suburb. It is now a major part of Greater Bangalore. It is also renowned for Sathya Sai Baba's ashram called Brindavan and as a haven for multinational information technology companies. ==History== On 27 April 1882, His Highness, Chamaraja Wodeyar IX, the Maharaja of Mysore, granted of land to the Eurasian and Anglo-Indian Association, Mysore and Coorg (E&AI) for the establishment of agricultural settlements at Whitefield (then Mysore state). The association was then about 170 strong with a committee of 30 members. They were part of the formation of the only settlement in India that European and Eurasians could call their own. David Emmanuel Starkenburgh White, the then president of the E&AI Association, South India Ltd., took a lively interest in it and helped in its advancement which at the beginning was very uphill work. In the first decade of the 1900s there were about 45 houses: 18 were on the village site and the remainder were on farms throughout the settlement and contained about of land fit for cultivation. The number of residents in 1907 was 130. H.E. Lord Connemara, the then governor of Madras (1890) and General Sir Harry Prendergast, a British resident in Mysore, visited the settlement and lent support to the development of Whitefield. Subsequently there were regular visits to Whitefield by the Bangalore District officials and high dignitaries from the Madras Presidency.〔(Whitefield, the last of the Settlements, ... near Bangalore )〕 The settlement was 3 km south of the Bangalore-Madras (now Chennai) line and a station was built. It led to the influx of residents and their families who worked at Kolar Gold Fields which is about 50 km (by train) to the east. It became convenient for those working at KGF to hop on a train (running 3 to 4 times a day) and return to their families. There were frequent trains running to Bangalore which is 20 km west (by train). Reaching the settlement from the railway station was possible only by writing a letter to Mrs. Hamilton (wife of a James Hamilton, the keeper of the Waverly Inn) who would arrange for a bullock cart trip for 8 annas.〔 Winston Churchill, two-time prime minister of the UK, is said to have paid frequent visits to the Waverly Inn while in India.〔(Bangalore: Karnataka,India, Some Places in Bangalore that refused to die )〕〔(Of a circle within a circle )〕 Legend has it that Churchill courted the daughter of the inn keepers, Rose Hamilton.〔(Heritage In Our Backyard - Voice | Gopalan International School Online Campus Newspaper|KALEIDOSCOPE - PapyrusClubs )〕〔(Whitefield remembered- Guest Photographer series | a turquoise cloud )〕 Until the late 1990s, Whitefield was a small village. It has since become a major hub for the Indian technology industry. The Export Promotion Industrial Park (EPIP) at Whitefield is one of the country's first information technology parks — International Tech Park, Bangalore (ITPB) which houses offices of many IT and ITES companies. Whitefield is now officially part of Bangalore city which is part of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Whitefield, Bangalore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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