Plague hit Bangalore in 1898. People reacted by building the only temple in the world dedicated to the Goddess of Plague, the Plagueamma Temple in Thyagarajanagar in South Bangalore. The government reacted by decongesting the city and laying out what became the familiar pre-Internet Bangalore of Malleswaram on one side and, marking the passing parade of British babus, Fraser Town, Richards Town, Cooke Town, Cox Town, Austin Town, Benson Town, Murphy Town, Cleveland Town on the other.
