PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded before 1350, though it was in existence since
about 350AD when the Western Ganga Dynasty ruled this
area. They were eventually displaced in 1024 by the
Hoysala Dynasty till 1346. Sometime thereafter, the two
brothers Vijaya and Krishna settled themselves in two
fortresses of the Hadana region, initially vassals of the
Hindu Vijayanagar Empire, they became the founders of the
Wadiyar dynasty. In the 16th century, Hiriya Bettada
Chamaraja III gave the fortress of Puragarh to one of his
three sons, Appana Timmaraja II who named the place
Mahishasura. The name was transformed to Maisur or Mysore
and this kingdom became independant in 1565 when the
Vijayanagar Empire fell. From 1755 until 1799, the throne
was usurped by two Muslim rulers, but the British restored
the Wadiyar Maharajas. Rulers were....
- Maharaja VIJAYARAJA,
1st Maharaja of Mysore 1399/1423
- Maharaja CHAMARAJA
II, 2nd Maharaja of Mysore 1423/1459
- Maharaja TIMMARAJA
I, 3rd Maharaja of Mysore 1459/1478
- Maharaja CHAMARAJA
III, 4th Maharaja of Mysore 1478/1513
- Maharaja CHAMARAJA
IV, 5th Maharaja of Mysore 1513/1553
- Maharaja TIMMARAJA
II, 6th Maharaja of Mysore 1553/1572
- Maharaja CHAMARAJA
V, 7th Maharaja of Mysore 1572/1576
- Maharaja BETTADA
DEVARAJA, 8th Maharaja of Mysore 1576/1577
- Maharaja RAJA
WADEYAR, 9th Maharaja of Mysore 1577/1617,
died 1617.
- Maharaja CHAMARAJA
VI, 10th Maharaja of Mysore 1617/1637
- Maharaja IMMADIRAJA,
11th Maharaja of Mysore 1637/1638
- Maharaja
NARASSARAJA, 12th Maharaja of Mysore
1638/1659
- Maharaja
KEMPADEVARAJA, 13th Maharaja of Mysore
1659/1671
- Maharaja CHIKKA
DEVARAJA, 14th Maharaja of Mysore 1671/1705
or 1673/1704, born 1629, died 1705.
- Maharaja
MUKARASURAJA, 15th Maharaja of Mysore
1705/1714
- Maharaja
KRISHNARAJA I, 16th Maharaja of Mysore
1714/1731
- Maharaja CHAMARAJA
VII, 17th Maharaja of Mysore 1731/1734, died
1734.
- Maharaja
KRISHNARAJA II, 18th Maharaja of Mysore
1734/1766, born 1729, died 1766.
- Maharaja NANJARAJA,
19th Maharaja of Mysore 1766/1771, born 1750, died
1771.
- Maharaja CHAMARAJA
VIII, 20th Maharaja of Mysore 1771/1776, born
1758, died 1776.
- Maharaja CHAMARAJA
IX , 21st Maharaja of Mysore 1776/1796, born
1775, married Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni Urs, daughter
of Gopal Raj Urs, and had issue. He died 1796.
HAIDER
ALI KHAN 1762/1782 (Usurper)
TIPU
SULTAN Shah Bahadur 1782/1799 (Usurper)
- Maharaja
KRISHNARAJA III [Mummudi Krishna Raja
Wadiyar], 22nd Maharaja of Mysore 1799/1868, born
1796, married 1stly Maharani (name unknown), married 2ndly,
Maharani Devajammani Sita Vilasa Anaro, died 1893 (#3), and had issue. He died
1868.
- Maharajkumari Devajammanni Wodiyar (by 1st wife),
married Chikka Krishna Urs of the Bettadakote branch
of the Royal Family, and had issue.
- HH Sir Sri Maharajah Chamarajendra X Wadiyar
(qv)
- Natural Son, married and had issue.
- Devaparthivaraj Wadiyar Bahadur, died after
1885.
-
 HH Sir Sri Maharajah CHAMARAJENDRA X WADIYAR,
23rd Maharaja of Mysore 1868/1894, born 22nd February
1863, G.C.S.I., he was granted full ruling powers in
1881, he instituted the Representative Assembly of
Mysore state also in 1881, founded the Kannada
Bashojjivini School, he encouraged the founding of
Agricultural Banks to help finance farmers and
initiated Life Insurance for government employees, he
was an entusiastic patron of arts and music, as well
as a musician himself; married 1878, HH Maharani
Kempananjammanni Vani Vilasa Sannidhana, died 1934 (#4), daughter of Sirdar Narase
Urs of Kalale, and his wife, Kempananjammanni Avaru,
and had issue, two sons and three daughters. He died
1894 of diphtheria in Calcutta.
- Col. HH Maharajah Sir Shri Krishnaraja IV Wadiyar
Bahadur (qv)
- HH Yuvaraja Sir Sri Kantirava Narasinharaja
Wadiyar, born 5th June 1888, educated at Mayo
College, Ajmer; a member of the Council of
Ministers, he was granted the style of His Highness
in 1917, K.C.I.E. [cr.1911], G.C.I.E. [cr.1915],
married 1910, HH Yuvrani Kempu Cheluvammanniyavaru
Urs, and had issue, one son and three daughters. He
died 12th March 1940.
- Yuvarajkumari Jaya Chamunda Ammani Avaru [HH the
Maharani of Bharatpur], married HH Shri Maharaja
Vrijendra Singh Sahib of Bharatpur, and
had issue. She died 1954.
- HH Maharaja Sir Shri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar
Bahadur (qv)
- Yuvarajkumari Sujaya Kantha Ammani [Thakurani
Sujaya Devi of Sanand], married the Thakur Saheb
of Sanand.
- Yuvarajkumari Vijaya Lakshmi Ammani [Thakurani
Vijaya Devi of Kotda-Sangani], married about 1942,
Thakur Saheb Pradyumna Singh of Kotda-Sangani,
and had issue.
- Maharajkumari Jayalakshmi Ammani Wadiyar, married
15th February 1897 (#2),
Sirdar Sir M. Kantha Raj Urs, Dewan of Mysore, born
20th September 1870, son of Narasa Raj Urs, and his
wife, Kampananja Ammani, and had issue, one
daughter.
- Maharajkumari Krishnajammani Wadiyar, married 20th
April 1896 (#2), Col.
J. Desaraj Urs, Commander of the Mysore Lancers, and
had issue, one son and three daughters. She died of
tuberculosis and the Royal Family established the
Princess Krishnajammani TB Sanitorium at Mysore in
her memory.
- Rajkumar C. Desaraj Urs, married and had
issue, three children.
- Rajkumar Prithviraj Urs, married
Shivamala Urs, and had issue, one son and four
daughters.
- Yogendra Prithviraj Urs
- Mrinalini Devi Urs
- Aarti Devi Urs
- Mayurakshi Devi Urs
- Deepika Devi Urs
- Major Desaraj Urs
- Geeta Devi Urs
- Maharajkumari Cheluvajammani Wadiyar, married
1900, Sirdar M. Lakshmi Kanth Raj Urs.
HH
Maharani Kempananjammanni Vani Vilasa Sannidhana
1894/1902 (Regent)
 Col. HH Maharaja Sir Shri KRISHNARAJA IV
WADIYAR Bahadur, 24th Maharaja of Mysore
1894/1940, born 4th June 1884 at the Royal Palace,
Mysore, G.B.E.(civ) [cr.1917], G.C.St.J. [cr.1911],
G.C.S.I. [cr.1907], educated at the Royal School in
the Summer Palace premises (Lokaranjan Palace),
educated in administrative matters by Sir Stuart
Fraser of the Bombay Civil Service, also studied the
principles of jurisprudence and methods of revenue
administration, as well as music and horse riding; he
was granted full ruling powers by the Viceroy on 8th
August 1902, first chancellor of Banaras Hindu
University and University of Mysore, he instituted the
Legislative Council in 1907, a Donat of Order of St
John of Jerusalem in England, Hon. Colonel 26th King's
Own Indian Cavalry 1910; he was a patron of both
Indian and Western Classical Music and himself was an
accomplished player of eight instruments, viz. flute,
violin, saxophone, piano, mridangam, nadaswara, sitar,
and veena; he helped found the Indian Institute of
Science at Bangalore in 1911 with the gift of 371
acres of land and a donation of funds; during his
reign, Mysore became the first Indian state to
generate hydro-electric power in Asia, and Bangalore
was the first Asian city to have street lights, which
were lit on 5th August 1905; he was honoured with the
Delhi Durbar Gold Medal in 1903 and again 1911, the
King George V Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935 and the
King George VI Coronation Medal in 1937; married 6th
June 1900, HH Maharani Lakshmi Vilas Sannidhana
Pratapa Kumari Devi Bai, daughter of Rana Thala Bane
Singhji of Vana in Kathiawar, died sp in 1953.
He died sp on 3rd August 1940 at Bangalore (#6).
- HH Maharaja Shri
Sir JAYA CHAMARAJA WADIYAR Bahadur, 25th
Maharaja of Mysore 1940/1974, G.C.S.I. [cr.1945],
G.C.B. [cr.1946], born 18th July 1919, a philosopher,
musicologist, political thinker and philanthropist,
educated at the Maharaja's College, Mysore, graduating
in 1938, Rajpramukh of Mysore State 1950/1956, first
Governor of the unified State of Mysore 1956/1964 and
later was transferred as the Governor of the State of
Madras (Tamil Nadu) 1964/1967, a Licentiate of the
Guild Hall of Music, London and honorary Fellow of
Trinity College of Music, London in 1945, he was
elected as the first president of the Philharmonia
Concert Society, London in 1948, a fellow and
president of Sangeet Natak Academy, New Delhi, 1966;
author of a number of literary works, including The
Quest for Peace: an Indian Approach, 1959; Dattatreya:
The Way & The Goal, 1957; The Gita and
Indian Culture, 1963;
Religion And Man, 1965; Avadhuta: Reason
& Reverence, 1958;
An Aspect Of Indian Aesthetics, 1956; Puranas
As The Vehicles Of India's Philosophy Of History,
1963; he was awarded a Doctor of Literature from the
University of Queensland, Australia and from the
Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, and a Doctor of Law
from the Benaras Hindu University, the first Chairman
of the Indian Wild Life Board, founder-president of
the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, he married 1stly, 15th May
1938 (sep'd.) (#1), HH
Maharani Sathya Prema Kumari of Charkhari, died 1983,
married 2ndly, 30th April 1944, HH Maharani Tripura
Sundarammani Yavaru, died 1983, and had issue. He died
24th September 1974.
- Maharajkumari Gayatri Devi Yavaru, born 1946,
married Sirdar Rama Chandra Raj Urs, died 29th June
2011, adopted son of Rajkumari Leelavati and Sirdar
Basava Raj Urs, and had issue, one son and three
daughters. She died 1974.
- Tripurasundari Devi, born 1966, educated
at Mysore University, married Swarup Anand
Gopalaraja Urs of the Bettada Kote branch of the
Mysore Royal Family, born 1960, and has issue.
- Yaduveer Gopalaraj Urs, born 1992.
- Jayatmika Lakshmi, born
1995.
- Chaduranga Kanth Raj Urs, married
Priyanka from the family of Princess
Krishnajammanni.
- Rajkumarani Keerti Devi, married Rajkumar
Shailendra Singh of Ajaigarh, and
has issue.
- Maharajkumari Meenakshi Devi Yavaru, born 1951,
former Member of the Social Welfare Board of
Karnataka, owner of a riding school in Bangalore
Palace grounds called Princess Academy of
Equitation, married M. R. Lakshmi Kanth Raje Urs, a
Lawyer, and has issue.
- Varchuswee SS Raje Urs, born 29th July
1981 in Bangalore, B.A. and LL.B. and an
Advocate, Manager of Two Horse Safaris and the
Princess Academy of Equitation, Matadipathi of
Malvali, Honnakayanhalli, Kapadi and
BGPura.
- HH Maharaja Shri Kanta Datta Narasinharaja Wadiyar
Bahadur (qv)
- Maharajkumari Kamakshi Devi Yavaru, born 1954,
married Kunwar Atmanaya Dev Singh [Kumar Shri
Atmanayadevsinhji Surendrasinhji] of Wadhwan, born 1947,
and has issue, twin daughters.
- Maharajkumari Indirakshi Devi Yavaru, married Raja
Chandra Urs, and has issue.
- Ms. Samyukta Lakshmi, graduate in
commerce and studying M.B.A.
- Aditya Gurudev Urs, graduate in commerce
as well as in Master in Business systems from
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
- Maharajkumari Vishalakshi Devi Yavaru, born 1962,
married Kunwar Gajendra Singh of Auwa, and has issue.
 HH Maharaja
Shri Kanta Datta NARASINHARAJA WADIYAR Bahadur,
26th Maharaja of Mysore, born 20th February 1953 in
Mysore, M.A. (Pol. Sc.), LL.B., educated at Maharaja
College and Sharda Vilas Law College, Mysore; elected
to the 8th, 9th, 11th and 13th Lok Sabha. Member of
the following committes.. Committee on Private
Members' Bills and Resolutions, Consultative
Committee, Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs,
Consultative Committee, Ministry of Tourism,
Consultative Committee, Ministry of Civil Aviation
1984/1989, Committee on Private Members' Bills and
Resolutions 1989/1991, Consultative Committee,
Ministries of Commerce and Tourism 1990/1991,
Committee on Transport & Tourism 1999/2000.
Chairman of the Sri Jayachamarajendra Art Gallery; the
HH Mahevani Lakshammamiavam Educational Trust; and the
HH Yuvarani Kempuchelo-Vajammaummani Educational
Trust; President, Gunamtra Maternity and Child Welfare
Centre; Patron, Sri Jayachamarajendra Educational
Trust; also worked as Lecturer in Political Science at
Post Graduation level in the Department of Political
Science, Mysore University. Special Interests
are..reading books on philosophy, theology, political
science and economics, favourite pastimes include...
reading, collection of objets d'art and watches.
Member of the following clubs... Mysore Sports Club;
Bangalore Golf Club; Mysore Race Club; Bangalore Turf
Club; Delhi Race Club; Karnataka State Cricket
Association and Club House. Chairman and Managing
Director Wadiyar Investments (P) Ltd.; Sri
Venkateswara Real Estate Enterprises (P) Ltd.; and
Mysore International Travel Agency (P) Ltd.; Patron
and Managing Partner, Sri Manjunath Packing and Works
Wadiyar Regency Rooms Theatre Complex; and Gayatri
Enterprises and Saraswati Enterprises, married 2nd
February 1976, HH Soubhagyavati Maharani Sri Satya
Pramoda Kumari Ju Devija Ammani Avaru of the Urs
family. He died sp
after a cardiac arrest on 10th December 2013.
- 27th Maharaja of Mysore (see above)
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