This is the story of the Mysore Association, which began on a sunny Sunday in February 1926, when a group of young professionals from the Mysore State met to create a platform to meet the cultural aspirations of Mysoreans in Bombay. Dewan Bahadur K. Ramaswamy became the first President. And the Mysore Association was formally inaugurated on the 15th of August 1926, by Professor Subba Rao, the then Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mysore, on a rented premises. In 1932 the Bombay Municipal Corporation gave a plot at Bhau Daji Road, Matunga, on a perpetual lease.