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== At Present days ==
Today, the erstwhile Cantonment area of Bangalore comprising Ulsoor, Shivajinagar, Benson Town, Richard’s Town, Frazer Town, Austin Town, Richmond Town, Cox Town, Murphy Town and others still boast a large Tamil populace<ref>{{cite book|title=Tamil area|page=5|url=http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05172004-231956/unrestricted/4.pdf}}</ref> ,<ref>{{cite web|title=discoverbangalore|url=http://www.discoverbangalore.com/granite.htm}}</ref> .Tamil-speaking people are largely found in the districts of ], ].According to Indian Express news,Out of 1.67 lakh voters in Shivajinagar, 92,000 are Tamil speaking people.<ref>{{cite news|title=Indian Express|url=http://newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/article1531428.ece|newspaper=Indian Express}}</ref> {{Citation needed|date=June 2013}}.

== Largest ethnolinguistic minority in Bangalore city ==
In 1991, Tamils constituted the largest ethnolinguistic minority in Bangalore city making up 21.38% of the total population.
Today, Tamil speakers form an estimated 25-30 percent of the population of Bangalore city.
<ref>{{cite news|title=REUTERS|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/02/05/idUSDEL133372|newspaper=REUTERS|date=Mon Feb 5, 2007}}</ref> As of 1971, Tamil formed the second-largest mother tongue in ] .<ref name="indiacensus1971p669">{{cite book|title=Census of India, 1971|pages=668–669|author=P. Padmanabha|publisher=Manager of Publications|year=}}</ref>

== Southern Karnataka ==
Tamil-speaking people are largely found in the districts of ], ], ], ], ], ] and ] in southern Karnataka.In Karnataka, ] form 3.46% of the total population of the state.<ref>{{cite web|title=censusindia|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/Statement3.htm}}</ref> Almost 5 million Tamils live outside Tamil Nadu, inside India. There has been a recorded presence of Tamil-speaking people in Southern Karnataka since the 10th century.<ref>{{cite book|title=Landscapes of Urban Memory|pages=100–102|chapter=The Settlement of Tamil speaking Groups | url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=-JXDD0gcHgoC&pg=PA100|author=Smriti Srinivas|publisher=]|year=2004|isbn=9788125022541}}</ref>

== Thigala ==

The Thigala (or Tigala) are a Tamil social group found in Tamil Nadu and ], and particularly the city of ].<ref name="People of India">{{cite book|title=People of India|page=1423|url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=VBQwAQAAIAAJ&q=thigala+Vanniar&dq=thigala+Vanniar&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yodQUd7RIKXH0QHV_YHADg&redir_esc=y}}</ref>

== Mahabharatha and Bengaluru Karaga ==
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At this time, Draupadi, the Pandava's wife, took the form of Shakthi devi. She created a huge army of soldiers called the Veerakumaras. After defeating the Asura, the soldiers asked Shakthi Devi to stay back with them. Though she had to go back, she promised them that she would come to stay with them every year during the first full moon of the first month of the Hindu calendar<ref name="bangaloremirror.com"/>

== Kempe Gowda ==
He built the Bangalore fort and the town in 1537 A D. And moved his capital from Yelahanka to the new Bangalore. Some believe that ], the founder of Bangalore city, was a ] from ].<ref>{{cite book|title=Landscapes of Urban Memeory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-tech City|url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=-JXDD0gcHgoC&pg=PA100&dq=Kempegowda++tamil&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aAW3UcrhGM2HrgeCvoH4Dw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Kempegowda%20%20tamil&f=false}}</ref>] is referred Illaipakka Nadu in the Tamil Incription,10th century Chola temple,],].<ref>{{cite web|title=History of the temple Incription|url=http://www.chitralakshana.com/chokkanatha.html}}</ref>

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