After Mahatma Gandhi's assassination, India embarked on a symbolic act of nation-building, replacing colonial street names with ones that honoured the Father of the Nation. Thus, roads across the country became Mahatma Gandhi Road, or simply M G Road. That's how Bengaluru's South Parade became M G Road in 1948.
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