As per the
Kannada language, The word "Jayanagar" when split into two words,
Jaya and
nagara literally makes it
Victory City. It is not definitively known why that is. One school of thought is that
Jaya comes from
Mysore's
Maharaja Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar. The foundation of Jayanagara was laid in the year 1948. It was one of the first planned neighbourhoods in Bengaluru, and at the time, the largest in Asia. Jayanagara was traditionally regarded as the southern end of Bengaluru. The "
South End Circle", where six roads meet, and the historic
Ashoka Pillar (which was to mark the southern end) bear this fact. While newer extensions have taken away this distinction from Jayanagara, it remains one of the more southern parts of the city. In 1976, during the regime of
D. Devaraj Urs, another iconic structure was added to Jayanagar, the Jayanagara BDA Shopping complex. It also housed the famous Puttanna Kanagal theatre. There was a fire in 2008. Later a new development project was initiated in 2011-2012 during the tenure of
B. S. Yediyurappa and
B. N. Vijaya Kumar worth around 193 crores that also involved demolishing the Puttanna Kanagal theatre. ==Population==