[3][4] The locality is named after David Emmanuel Starkenburgh White, founder of the European and Anglo Indian Association which received 4,000 acres of land from Mysore Maharaja Chamaraja Wodeyar in the 19th century.
[5] In 1782, King Chamaraja Wodeyar X, the Maharaja of the Mysore State, granted 3,900 acres (16 km2) of land to the Eurasian and Anglo-Indian Association for the establishment of agricultural settlements at Whitefield, which lay within his territory.
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 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) of land fit for cultivation.
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.
It led to the influx of residents and their families who worked at Kolar Gold Fields, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) (by train) to the east.
It lies on the Bangalore-Chennai route and is double and electrified, the Krishnarajapura-Whitefield railway station section is slated to be converted to a quadruple line.
Neighbouring the Whitefield railway station is Brindavan, the ashram and winter residence of the Hindu spiritual leader Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
[20] Most of the People live in Varthur, Thubhannahalli, AECS Layout, Kudhanahalli Gate area, BEML layout because it is located close to Major Tech company There are multiple malls and food hotspots in and around the Whitefield area, some of them include - These malls host multiple restaurants that cater to a variety of cuisines – Regional Indian cuisines, Japanese, fast food, etc.
Additional prominent standalone restaurants in the area apart from the ones hosted in malls include - Media related to Whitefield, Bangalore at Wikimedia Commons