 Although he had to retain a small delegation of Vijayanagara in Srirangapattana, he had all other traces of Vijayanagara high command removed throughout his kingdom.Kempe Gowda I had build a town out of an uninhabited mass of land at nearly the time Chamaraja Wodeyar IV was born.He had grown up listening to the valorous stories of Kempe Gowda I and his Bangalore town.