Domlur was included in the erstwhile Bangalore Civil and Military Station[3] under the British Madras Presidency till it was transferred to the Mysore State in 1949.

McAfee, NetApp, Dell, IBM, Microsoft, ANZ, Sasken, Target and Mistral Solutions are the companies located in this area.

The major military establishments having divisions in Domlur are Indian Air Force, EME Workshop, and ASC (Army Service Corps).

Further, some inscriptions record the tributes, taxes and tolls made to the temple by Devaraya II of Vijayanagar Empire, which state the houses, wells, land around Tombalur were offered to the deity Sokkapperumal.

Yet another inscription in Tamil details Talaikkattu and his wife donating lands from Jalapalli village and Vinnamangalam tank to the deity.

During the 2014 general election, P. C. Mohan won from Bangalore Central defeating his nearest rival Rizwan Arshad (INC) by a margin of 1,37,500 votes.

[13][14] N. A. Haris won the 2018 assembly election from Shantinagar by a margin of 18,205 votes defeating his nearest rival K. Vasudevamurthy (BJP).