{"id":7795,"date":"2022-11-12T08:39:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T03:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7795"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:26:21","slug":"sri-nadaprabhu-kempegowda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sri-nadaprabhu-kempegowda\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Nadaprabhu Kempegowda"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Sri Nadaprabhu Kempegowda:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nadaprabhu Hiriya Kempe Gowda<\/strong>\u00a0(1510 &#8211; 1569) is also known as Kempe Gowda.<\/li>\n<li>He was an Indian ruler under the\u00a0<strong>Vijayanagara Empire.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Contributions:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The city of Bengaluru, capital of Karnataka, was founded by Kempe Gowda in 1537.<\/strong>\u00a0He was successful in planning and building Bengaluru Fort and Bengaluru Pete, the foundation of Bengaluru.<\/li>\n<li>He is also noted for his societal reforms and contribution to building temples and water reservoirs in Bengaluru.<\/li>\n<li>One of his social reforms was to prohibit the custom of amputating the last two fingers of the left hand of the unmarried women during &#8220;Bandi Devaru&#8221;, an important custom of Morasu Vokkaligas.<\/li>\n<li>He was a patron of art and learning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1875162\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nadaprabhu Hiriya Kempe Gowda (1510 &#8211; 1569) is also known as Kempe Gowda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}