Madiwala is a locality in

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, India. It is close to

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, Bommanahalli,

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, Bannerghatta Road, Jayanagar, and J. P. Nagar, among other localities. The

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is eight kilometres from Madiwala.

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, a medical college and hospital, is in the locality. The

Madiwala Lake Madiwala lake is one of the biggest lakes in Bangalore, India spread over an area of 114.3 hectare. Legend has it that the lake was built by the Cholas in a day. The water in the lake was fit for drinking till the early 1990s. Since then it h ...

is one of the largest lakes in Bangalore. The inhabitants are, for the most part, of the middle and upper middle classes.

History

Madiwala is one of the oldest localities in

. It has been speculated to have been the centre of Bangalore in the past, based on archaeological documents. The temple of Someshwara contains inscriptions that refer to the Chola kings having presided over the construction of the Temple of Someshwara in Madiwala. Madiwala means washerman in

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

; the locality was named for the community of washermen and washerwomen that once resided in the area.

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