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Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV (4 June 1884 – 3 August 1940) was the twenty-fourth Maharaja of Mysore, reigning from 1902 until his death in 1940. Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV is popularly deemed a rajarshi , or 'saintly king', a moniker with which Mahatma Gandhi revered the king in 1925 for his administrative reforms and achievements.
The Jaganmohan Palace was commissioned in c. 1861 Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III and was completed in 1910 during the rule of Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV. It is now called the Chamarajendra Art Gallery and houses a rich collection of artifacts [57] Karanji Mansion c. 1902 – 1914 Mysore
Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III both actively and monetarily contributed to arts and culture; [22] [23] [24] while Maharaja Chamaraja Wadiyar X spawned democratic practices, [25] Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV is praised for modernising Mysore Kingdom's economy and industries.
Chamaraja Wodeyar IV (1572–1576) 8 Chamaraja Wodeyar V (1576–1578) 9 Raja Wodeyar I (1578–1617) 10 Chamaraja Wodeyar VI (1617–1637) 11 Raja Wodeyar II (1637–1638) 12 Narasaraja Wodeyar I (1638–1659) 13 Devaraja Wodeyar I (1659–1673) 14 Devaraja Wodeyar II (1673–1704) 15 Narasaraja Wodeyar II (1704–1714) 16 Krishnaraja Wodeyar I
The sixteenth maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar I was the last direct male lineage of Raja Yaduraja. [20] However, Krishnaraja Wodeyar I's successor was his adopted son, Maharaja Chamaraja Wodeyar VII from the Ankanahalli Urs branch. After him, Maharaja Chamaraja Wodeyar III's second daughter Rajakumari Chikkadevi's family with the Bettada Kote Urs ...
Krishnaraja Wodeyar III became the king of Mysore. [1] Wasteful expenditure, ill-considered grants of land to undeserving courtiers and courtly intrigue between the royal family and Maratha Brahmin advisors led to declining revenue and rising costs in the kingdom, ultimately resulting in a recession in the 1820s.
The Siege of Seringapatam (5 April – 4 May 1799) was the final confrontation of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Mysore. The British, with the allied Nizam Ali Khan, 2nd Nizam of Hyderabad and Marathas , achieved a decisive victory after breaching the walls of the fortress at Seringapatam ...
The Mysore Commission, also known as Commissioners' Rule or simply the Commission Rule, [1] was a period and form of government in the history of the Kingdom of Mysore and the neighbouring province of Coorg from 1831 to 1881 when British commissioners administered the kingdom due to the deposition of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III and later during the minority of Yuvaraja Chamaraja Wadiyar X.