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Mysore State, colloquially Old Mysore, was a political territory within the Dominion of India and the subsequent Republic of India from 1947 until 1956. The state was formed by renaming the Kingdom of Mysore, [1] and Bangalore replaced Mysore as the state's capital.
Upon accession, it became Mysore State, later uniting with other Kannada speaking regions to form the present-day Karnataka state. Soon after Independence, Maharaja Jayachamaraja Wadiyar was made Rajapramukh until 1956, when he became the first governor of the enlarged state.
Jun 2, 2021 · Founded by the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 as Mysore State, renamed Karnataka in 1973 Part of Bombay State, Coorg State, Hyderabad State and Mysore State Kerala
Nov 9, 2018 · After the decline of Vijayanagar Empire, Mysore became independent State under the Hindu Wodeyar Dynasty in AD 1565. Devraj (Dalwai or Commander in Chief) and Nanraja (Sarvadhikari or...
With the decline of that empire after the Battle of Talikota in 1565, the Mysore Kingdom gradually achieved independence, and by the time of King Narasaraja Wodeyar (1637), it had become a sovereign state.
Aug 18, 2022 · Leading up to India's independence, the then state of Mysore had not witnessed many fierce resistance movements, but for the dhwaja satyagraha on April 10, 1938, at Shivapura in Maddur...
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The British, however, restored the kingdom to the Wodeyars whom they saw as the rightful heirs to the throne, and it became a 'princely state' under the British Raj until Indian independence in 1947, when the kingdom was merged with the Union of India.
