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Non-Brahmins got a chance to learn Sanskrit
A. Jayaram
BANGALORE:
In his autobiography, Sir Mirza Ismail writes of his decision to open the Sanskrit college in Bangalore, although there already existed one in Mysore. The rationale behind it was that he found that the college in Mysore was open only to Brahmins. To enable non-Brahmins to learn Sanskrit, he opened the one in Bangalore and named it after Maharaja Chamarajendra Wadiyar.
It was also Sir Mirza Ismail who had sites allotted to various institutions including the Kannada Sahitya Parishat along what was earlier known as Hardinge Road (now Pampa Mahakavi Road) running through Chamarajpet and Shankarapuram. Earlier the land occupied by the Sahitya Parishat, the State Cooperative Apex Bank and others was an open ground known as Gandhi Maidan.
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