Karnataka Tamils
For example, Iyengar Tamil makes distinctions between potable ([t̪iːrt̪o]) and non-potable water ([d͡ʒʌlo]), the former considered sacred but both borrowed from Sanskrit.
They trace their ancestry to the large number of Tamil speaking soldiers, suppliers and workers who were brought into the Bangalore Civil and Military Station, by the British Army, after the fall of Tippu Sultan.
The Bangalore Cantonment was directly under the administration of the British Madras Presidency till 1949, when it was handed over to the Mysore State.
[9][10][11][12][13][14] Significant Tamil-speaking populations are also found in areas of Bangalore not part of the Cantonment such as Chamarajpet, Kalasipalya, Srirampura, Malleswaram, Vyalikaval, Hebbal, Vidyaranyapura and Yelahanka as well as the eastern and south-eastern localities of Bangalore which are in proximity to the IT Corridor (Whitefield, Electronics City and the Outer Ring Road) such as Indiranagar, Banaswadi, Koramangala, BTM Layout, HSR Layout, Bannerghatta Road, J. P. Nagar and Marathahalli among others.
Many of the Tamilians living within or close to the IT corridor of Bangalore are first-generation immigrants who have migrated from Tamil Nadu to work in the IT industry in the city.
Tamils play an important role in Karnataka's politics there are few legislative constituencies like :- Tamils even play an important role in Karnataka's parliamentary politics there are few Lok Sabha constituencies like :- The Chokkanathaswamy Temple is a 10th-century Chola temple, located in Domlur.
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.
A 1290AD inscription talks about donation of ten pens from the revenue of Tommalur by Poysala vira Ramananda.
The oldest of these inscriptions dates to 1247 AD talks about a land grants "below the big tank of Vengalur" by a Veppur (modern Begur) resident.
Another instrciption dated 1365 talks about land grand at Tamaraikkirai (which translates to 'lotus pond bank' in Tamil, and according to HS Gopala Rao, Secretary of the Karnataka Itihasa Academy refers to the present day Tavarekere suburb.
The second inscription talks about the Hoysala king Ballala III granting the entire revenue of the Doddanekkundi village to the Shivagange Temple.
[31][32] When an encroached storm water drain was cleared in Shivajinagar, a huge plaque dating back to the 19th century was found.
It reads 'This stone laid across the main channel in 1868 and worn by the feet of two generations was set up to mark the opening of this bridge and road on 16 February 1922'.
