Kannada Rajyotsava | Plaque marking the renaming of Karnataka missing for decades
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Kannada Rajyotsava | Plaque marking the renaming of Karnataka missing for decades

The Hindu  

Former Chief Minister D. Devaraj Urs unveiled a granite plaque with the new name for the State “Karnataka” along with a map at Kanteerava Stadium on November 1, 1973, to mark the historic event. A senior official from the Department of Youth and Sports said many presently working in the department were not even aware that the commemoration stone was in fact laid at Kanteerava Stadium. History enthusiast Suresh Moona recalled how he tracked down parts of the demolished Cenotaph, a British war memorial to 1791 Bangalore Siege, that was demolished in 1964, to a civic body’s shed decades later. “The State renaming commemoration stone may have been similarly relocated during the renovation of the stadium and may have been lost.

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