About Kushalnagar
Kushalanagar is a city located in the Kodagu district of Karnataka state of India.Kushalnagar is one of the rapidly developing city in the state and it acts as Gateway of Kodagu. Kushalnagar was considered as the newest taluk named Cauvery taluk of the district along with Ponnampete, but the plan is yet to be done.
According to popular myth, the name was given by Hyder Ali who was camped there when he received news of the birth of his son Tipu and called it as Kushyal nagar (=""town of gladness"") But in reality, Tipu was born around 1750 while Hyder Ali entered Kodagu for the first time in the 1760s. After the British conquest of Coorg it was known as Fraserpet after Colonel James Stuart Fraser who was the Political Agent in Coorg around 1834.
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