Question

_____ opened ‘Attara Kacheri’ in the Mysore state.
A.Yaduraya
B.Chikkadevaraja
C.Haider Ali
D.Tipu Sultan

Answer 1

Hint: Attara Kacheri is located in the state of Bangalore, the capital city of Karnataka. It was earlier the High court of Mysore. The High court operates out of a red brick building known as Attara Kacheri. Lewin Bentham Bowring, a British civil servant in India who served as the commissioner of Mysore planned the construction of the building.

Complete answer:
Attara Kacheri was built-in 1868 at a cost of Rs. 1868. 4.27Lakh. Poornima Dasharathi, founder of the building, when Chikkadevraja Wadiyar, inspired by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb’s style of governance, created eighteen administrative departments called as aka kacheris, thus the name Attara Kacheri literally translates to eighteen departments.
It is built in Greco-Roman style by the then chief engineer Richard Hieram Sankey. The plans were revived in the year 1864 under Lewin Bentham Bowring, and the offices became functional by 1868. The building came about long after the administrative offices were relocated to Srirangapatna after Tipu sultan’s death in the year 1799 and the cantonment was formed in 1809.On the right opposite of the structure is the building of the Vidhana Soudha in the year 1956. The structure is in the Dravidian style right across the Attara Kacheri.

Hence, the correct answer is option (B).

Note: Maheshpura that later became Mahisuru, a name which is still used by the royal family, and finally, it came to be anglicized as Mysuru/Mysore in the Kannada Language. In December 2005.The Government of Karnataka announced to change the English name of the city to Mysore. The Karnataka High court is currently functional in Bangalore, Hubli-Dharwad, and Gulbarga.