Austin Town, Bengaluru
Austin Town, Bengaluru is a locality of the Bangalore Cantonment, named after a British Collector and Municipal President of the Civil and Military Station, Sir.The neighbouring suburbs are Agara, Neelsandra and Vannarapete, which was the localities where the labourers of the nearby brick kilns called Shoolay (now renamed as Ashok Nagar).In the 1960s and 1970s, many of the Ferdinand Kittel Nagara boys made it the Football teams of Government and defence companies such as HMT, MEG, ITI, NGEF, HAL, BEML, BHEL, ADA, ADE, etc.They trace their ancestry to the large number of Tamil soldiers, suppliers and workers who were brought into the Bangalore Civil and Military Station, by the British Army, after the fall of Tippu Sultan.During the British Raj, there was a clear distinction between the Anglo Indian and Tamil sections of Ferdinand Kittel Nagara, which have now been erased, and the once posh suburbs have lost their glory as a result of poor civic maintenance.