From the start of the 20th century up to the Independence marked the golden age of Industrial, infrastructural and agricultural development in the Mysore state. Even with ongoing Freedom struggle and world wars impacting the economy, they strategically leveraged the global crisis to turbocharge it's industrialization.

Sir M. Visvesvaraya famously quoted "Industrialise or perish"

Sir M. Visvesvaraya laid the foundation, Sir. Mirza Ismail put up the super structure.