Know Your City: A protected monument today, Bengaluru's Bowring Institute was once set up to promote knowledge

Opened as the Literary and Scientific Institute, which operated from 1868 on a subscription of a rupee a month, the building centred around a reading room and library to promote lectures and debates.

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