The Kingdom of Mysore was a realm in southern India, traditionally believed to have been founded in 1399. The kingdom was ruled for most part by the Hindu Wodeyar family. It initially served as a vassal state of the Vijayanagara Empire. During a brief Muslim rule, the kingdom shifted to a Sultanate style of administration.
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The Kingdom of Mysore was a realm in southern India, traditionally believed to have been founded in 1399. The kingdom was ruled for most part by the Hindu Wodeyar family. It initially served as a vassal state of the Vijayanagara Empire. The 17th century saw a steady expansion of its territory. During a brief Muslim rule, the kingdom shifted to a Sultanate style of administration. It reached the height of its economic and military power and dominion in the latter half of the 18th century under the de facto ruler Haider Ali and his son Tipu Sultan. Following Tipu’s death in the fourth war in the Siege of Seringapatam, large parts of his kingdom were annexed by the British, which signalled the end of the Mysorean hegemony over South India. The British restored the WODEyars to their throne by way of a subsidiary alliance and the diminished MysORE was transformed into a princely state. The WodeYars continued to rule the state until Indian independence in 1947, when Mysores acceded to the Union of India. This period also saw the kingdom emerge as one of the important centres of art and culture in India. It was also marked with territorial expansion with the annexation of Channapna to the north from the Chandragiri dynasty. It also exercised a great deal of autonomy and continued to pay tribute to other major chiefs of the country who continued to continue to pay revenue to the Nayaks of Tamil Nadu.
By 1612–13, the Wodears began to reckon with a regional political factor with Nayaks, and by 1612-13, by 1613-1614, the state became a regional factor with the Raja of Nayaks. The first unambiguous mention of the Wodesar family is in 16th century Kannada literature from the reign of Achyuta Deva Raya ; the earliest available inscription dates to the rule of the petty chief Timmaraja II in 1551. Some historians posit a northern origin at Dwarka, others locate it in Karnataka. Yaduraya is said to have married Chikkadevarasi, the local princess and assumed the feudal title ‘Wodeyars’, which the ensuing dynasty retained. By 1565 the kingdom had expanded to thirty-three villages protected by a force of 300 soldiers. King Bola Chamaraja IV, the first ruler of any political significance among them, withheld tribute to the nominal Vijayanagar monarch Aravidu Ramaraya. The only ex-post facto approval of Venkatati Raya, the incumbent king of the diminished Vijayanayanagara empire, came from the post facto king of Chandragati, Venkatapati Raja Raja Rama Raya. This development elicited the tacit approval of the post-Vijayanagar king of Chandragiri, Raja Raja Rama Raya.
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