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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.
Dewans of Mysore Kingdom (1782–1949) Under Chamaraja Wodeyar IX: 1 Purnaiah [3] Dec 1782 - May 1799 1 Under Krishnaraja Wadiyar III (1799–1881) (1) Purnaiah: May 1799 - Apr 1811 2 2 Bargir Bakshi Balaji Rao: Apr 1811 - Jan 1812 1 3 Savar Bakshi Rama Rao Feb 1812 - Oct 1817 1 4 Babu Rao Nov 1817 - Apr 1818 1 5 Siddharaj Urs May 1818 - Feb ...
The dewan of Mysore (sometimes spelled diwan) was the de facto chief executive officer of the Government of Mysore (now Government of Karnataka), ex officio chairman of the Dewan's Council (now Cabinet), and the prime minister and royal adviser to the maharaja of Mysore.
The work on laying out the garden (also called Krishna Raja Sagara) was started in the c. 1927 and completed in c. 1932 [62] when Sir Mirza Ismail was the Dewan of Mysore and Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV sat on the Mysore throne. [63] [64] Rajendra Vilas Palace c. 1938 Mysore (Chamundi hills)
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 ...
Raja Wodeyar I initiated the celebration of the Dasara festival in Mysore, a proud tradition of the erstwhile Vijayanagara royal family. [ 111 ] [ 112 ] Jainism , though in decline during the late medieval period, also enjoyed the patronage of the Mysore kings, who made munificent endowments to the Jain monastic order at the town of ...
Sir Kumarapuram Seshadri Iyer (also spelled Aiyar) (1 June 1845 – 13 September 1901), was an Indian advocate who served as the 15th Dewan of Mysore from 1883 to 1901. He was the second longest serving dewan of Mysore after Purnaiah.
Chamaraja Wadiyar X (1868–1881) Absolute Monarchy Monarchy restored by Rendition Act 1881 (in subsidiary alliance with British Crown) (1881–1947) (23) Chamarajendra Wadiyar X (1881–1894) 24 Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1894–1940) 25 Jayachamaraja Wadiyar (1940–1947) Constitutional Monarchy (Mysore State, Dominion of India) (1947–1956) (25)