Appropriately enough, Whitefield began as a white enclave. The European and Anglo-Indian Association only had to ask and the Mysore government in 1881 allotted 4,000 acres to the east of Bangalore for them to establish a settlement. Eventually, they retained only 542 acres because they could not raise the money to develop the rest. Agricultural farms and a few dozen residences constituted the settlement they named after D. S. White, the founder of the original association in Madras. A couple of churches and a school completed Mr White’s field. A 1920 tourist guide noted that ‘there is some
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