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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.
Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV's nephew, successor, and the last reigning king of the Wadiyar dynasty, Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, ruled from 1940 until 1950. Upon India's independence from the British crown in 1947, Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar ceded his kingdom to the new provisional Dominion of India but continued as Maharajah until India became a ...
Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (14 July 1794 – 27 March 1868) was an Indian king who was the twenty-second Maharaja of Mysore. He ruled the kingdom for nearly seventy years, from 30 June 1799 to 27 March 1868, for a good portion of the latter period of which he was merely a nominal ruler. He is known for his contribution and patronage to different ...
Krishnaraja Wadiyar II (1728 – 25 April 1766 [1]), was the eighteenth maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore from 1734 to 1766. He ruled as monarch during his entire rule, first under the dalvoys , and then, for the last five years, under Hyder Ali .
Power returned absolutely to the Wadiyars when Krishnaraja Wodeyar III became king. In 1831, the British took direct control of the kingdom and a commission administered it until 1881. [7] Through an instrument of rendition, power was once again transferred to the Wadiyars in 1881, when Chamaraja Wadiyar X was made king.
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
Built by King Chikkadevaraja Wodeyar (r. 1673–1704) and later expanded by Dewan Puraniah, chief minister of King Krishnaraja Wodeyar III ( (r. 1799–1868). [3] Temple tank (Kalyani) c. 1673 – 1704 Shravanabelagola: King Chikkadevaraja Wodeyar constructed the pond and made a large endowments to the Jain monastic order at Shravanabelagola. [8]