Wodeyar

The Mysuru-Kodagu seat in southern Karnataka covers the areas earlier ruled by the Wodeyars of Mysuru, Chikkaveera Rajendra of Kodagu and the descendants of Tipu Sultan. Tipu Sultan was revived in public memory, after Karnataka decided a few years ago, under a Congress government, to celebrate his birth anniversary -- a decision that was opposed by...

The tradition of the Vijayadashami procession in Mysuru was started by the Wodeyar royalty over four centuries ago. And the pomp and pageantry continues to this day at Amba Vilas, the Mysuru palace, even though there is no royalty in the Republic of India any more.

Mysuru's big Vijayadashami procession - which starts at the Amba Vilas palace and winds its way through the city - was held on Tuesday. Before the procession began, people in their thousands lined the streets of Mysuru in anticipation of the Jamboo Savari or the elephant procession - a tradition that goes back centuries.

The iconic Amba Vilas Palace in Mysuru is all decked up for the royal wedding of Wodeyar family scion Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wodeyar today.

Nearly a year after he was crowned prince of Mysore, Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wodeyar, a graduate of Boston University, will marry in June. The bride-to-be is Trishika Kumari Singh, daughter of the Dungarpur royal family from Rajasthan.

Ending months of speculation, 23-year-old US educated Yaduveer Gopal Raj Urs was finally adopted as the titular head of the Mysore royal family, after the death of Srikantadatta Narisimharaja Wodeyar in 2013. Following the ceremony the new heir took a ride on a silver chariot in the evening to greet well-wishers and members of the public.

Yaduveer Gopal Raj Urs on Thursday was declared as the new heir to the Mysuru royal family by Pramoda Devi Wodeyar, widow of the last scion Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wodeyar.

The year was 1935. Or thereabout. So the legend goes.

Pramoda Devi Wodeyar, widow of the scion of Mysore royal family, Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wodeyar, today accused the successive governments since 1976 of troubling them over world famous Mysore palace and other royal properties.

Thousands of grief-stricken people on Wednesday bid a tearful farewell to Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar as his mortal remains were consigned to the flames in the royal cemetery in Mysore just before sunset.

He lived like a Maharaja although he was not one technically or legally and inherited palaces but sans a kingdom.

Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar from the former royal family of Mysore and who was recently elected president of the Karnataka cricket association, died of a heart attack in Bangalore today.

The Mysuru-Kodagu seat in southern Karnataka covers the areas earlier ruled by the Wodeyars of Mysuru, Chikkaveera Rajendra of Kodagu and the descendants of Tipu Sultan. Tipu Sultan was revived in public memory, after Karnataka decided a few years ago, under a Congress government, to celebrate his birth anniversary -- a decision that was opposed by...

The tradition of the Vijayadashami procession in Mysuru was started by the Wodeyar royalty over four centuries ago. And the pomp and pageantry continues to this day at Amba Vilas, the Mysuru palace, even though there is no royalty in the Republic of India any more.

Mysuru's big Vijayadashami procession - which starts at the Amba Vilas palace and winds its way through the city - was held on Tuesday. Before the procession began, people in their thousands lined the streets of Mysuru in anticipation of the Jamboo Savari or the elephant procession - a tradition that goes back centuries.

The iconic Amba Vilas Palace in Mysuru is all decked up for the royal wedding of Wodeyar family scion Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wodeyar today.

Nearly a year after he was crowned prince of Mysore, Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wodeyar, a graduate of Boston University, will marry in June. The bride-to-be is Trishika Kumari Singh, daughter of the Dungarpur royal family from Rajasthan.

Ending months of speculation, 23-year-old US educated Yaduveer Gopal Raj Urs was finally adopted as the titular head of the Mysore royal family, after the death of Srikantadatta Narisimharaja Wodeyar in 2013. Following the ceremony the new heir took a ride on a silver chariot in the evening to greet well-wishers and members of the public.

Yaduveer Gopal Raj Urs on Thursday was declared as the new heir to the Mysuru royal family by Pramoda Devi Wodeyar, widow of the last scion Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wodeyar.

The year was 1935. Or thereabout. So the legend goes.

Pramoda Devi Wodeyar, widow of the scion of Mysore royal family, Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wodeyar, today accused the successive governments since 1976 of troubling them over world famous Mysore palace and other royal properties.

Thousands of grief-stricken people on Wednesday bid a tearful farewell to Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar as his mortal remains were consigned to the flames in the royal cemetery in Mysore just before sunset.

He lived like a Maharaja although he was not one technically or legally and inherited palaces but sans a kingdom.

Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar from the former royal family of Mysore and who was recently elected president of the Karnataka cricket association, died of a heart attack in Bangalore today.