Churumuri takes great pride and pleasure in serving up a nostalgic slice of Mysore to its growing band of readers across the globe. Today, and the over the next few days, we will run excerpts from the Handbook of the City of Mysore written by T.G. Lakshmana Rao, then president of the Municipal Council, in 1915.
The handbook, a vital public document, brings alive the Mysore of 90 years ago. Ninety years ago, our population was 71,306. Ninety years ago, Kukkarahalli Tank was a source of water-supply. And 90 years ago, there were two hotels for the convenience of European visitors to our City, and both were kept by Parsis.
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Churumuri gratefully acknowledges the support of Mysore’s premier dentist, Dr B.K. Chandra Mohan, is making available this document.
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Why only excerpts? Please bring the complete handbook in these columns or at least make a pdf file and up load it at sites like http://rapidshare.de/, so that any one interested can down load the file.
Thanks Mr. BKC and KP
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Yes, it will be interesting to read T.G.Lakshman Rao’s entire book on Mysore city in 1915. If possible, the whole book should be uploaded, so that at least a few points can gain attention of our officials concerned with the development of Mysore.
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Churumuri is running the full verbatim text of the ‘Handbook of the City of Mysore’ without making any changes. By excerpts we mean that we are not running the appendices.
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