Origin of the Kingdom of Mysore

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Flag of the former princely state of Mysore.

The

Wodeyar dynasty, as the ruling family is known, ruled the southern Karnataka region until Indian independence in 1947, when the kingdom was merged with the Union of India
.

Origin

Main article: Kingdom of Mysore
Mysore palace lit up at night

Sources for the history of the kingdom include numerous lithic (stone) and copper plate inscriptions, written records in the Mysore palace and contemporary literary sources in the

Kannada language such as the Kanthirava Narasaraja Vijaya, describing the achievements of King Kanthirava Narasaraja I, court music and composition forms in vogue; Chikkadevaraja Vamshavali, describing the Wodeyar family history; Chikkadevaraja Binnapam, on the achievements of King Chikka Devaraja; and Keladinripavijayam. Information about Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan are available from various linguistic sources including Nishan-i-Haidari in Persian and Haider Name in Kannada.[1][2]

Other historical sources are Apratimavira Charite, Chikkadevaraja Vijaya and Chikka Devaraja Yaso-bhushana, on the achievements of King Chikka Devaraja; Kanthirava Narasaraja Charitra, on the life of King Kanthirava Narasaraja I; Deva Raja Vijaya, on the reign of Dodda Devaraja; Maisuru Arasugala Purvabhyudaya; Kalale Doregala Vamshavali; documentation pertaining to the Dutch East India Company relations with Mysore for the 1762–1790 period; Portuguese sources on the life of Haider Ali; and written documents by catholic missionaries from the mid-17th century.[3][4][5]

According to legend, when the city of Dwaraka (in modern

Melkote in Karnataka state). As per his wishes, Parvati brought Krishna's descendants to the Chamundi hills in Mysore and made them rulers there.[6]

The historical origins of the kingdom are obscure. The kingdom is first mentioned in early 16th-century

Wodeyar", which the ensuing dynasty retained.[8][10]

This theory has been rejected by other historians, who counter that it is farfetched to believe that two brothers could arrive there from a distant city and begin ruling as kings. Historians like Nobuhiro Ota,

Yadava fugitives from the Vijayanagara Empire court who took advantage of the upheaval caused by the king's death to gain control of the Mysore region.[16] It is known that the Mysore feudal family initially controlled no more than a handful of villages and grew into a kingdom only after the fall of the Vijayanagara Empire in 1565.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ Kamath (2001), pp. 11–12, pp. 226–227; Pranesh (2003), p. 11
  2. ^ Narasimhacharya (1988), p. 23
  3. ^ Narasimhacharya (1988), p. 23; p. 89; Kamath (2001), p. 12
  4. ^ Subrahmanyam (2003), p. 64
  5. ^ Rice E.P. (1921), p. 89
  6. ^ Pranesh (2003), p1
  7. ^ a b Stein (1989), p82
  8. ^ a b Pranesh (2003), p2
  9. ^ Kamath (2001), p226
  10. ^ Rice B.L. (1897), p361
  11. ISBN 978-0-415-55449-7
    . Those 'who have connections with the Gowda (or Okkaligas, peasant caste) or humble jāti' were incorporated into the ... However, Ota holds that, to begin with, the lineage of the Urs who were classified into the thirteen and eighteen clans, including the royal family (the Mysore clan, Wodeyar), was intensely indigenous, and that there is an extremely high possibility that they included members from not only the peasant caste ...
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  14. ^ Pranesh (2003), p3
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  16. ^ Wilks and Aiyangar in Aiyangar (2004), p275-276

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