Vidhana Soudha

Vidhana Soudha (also spelled Vidhāna Saudha; lit. Legislative House) is a building in Bangalore, India. It serves as the seat of bicameral legislature comprising the Karnataka Legislative Assembly and the Karnataka Legislative Council. It is constructed in Neo-Dravidian style and was completed in 1956. == History == === Early background === The legislative institutions of the former Kingdom of Mysore were established in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, the British administration utilized Tipu Sultan's palace as the secretariat office. The two houses of legislature of the princely state of Mysore, the legislative assembly and the legislative council, were established in 1881 and 1907 respectively. Sessions of the two houses took place in Mysore with joint sessions taking place in the Bangalore Town Hall. In the 19th century, during the period of British Commissioners Sir Mark Cubbon and Lewin Bentham Bowring, the palace was reportedly in poor condition. The palace could not accommodate the expanding administrative staff, leading to the construction of Attara Kacheri in 1867, which housed the general and revenue secretariat of the state.