While India will be celebrating its 78th Independence Daym, the tiny village of Issuru will be agog with celebrations of its ...

Tipu first divided his kingdom into seven provinces and then increased them to nine and still later to 17. In 1794 the number of provinces had increased to 37 with 1,024 Amildars.

Forest land granted by the erstwhile king of the Mysore Kingdom to a British planter in 1895 has now become the bone of contention between the forest department and a private company which now ...

Tipu Sultan’s legacy continues to fund the ambitions of the descendants of the second Earl of Cornwallis. Tipu Sultan was the ruler of the Mysore kingdom spanning a large part of what is now ...

The festival was first celebrated in the kingdom of Mysore in 1610 by Raja Wadiyar I, the fourth of the independent Wadiyar kings after breaking off from the falling Vijayanagara Empire.

Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, scion of the erstwhile Mysore Kingdom and former Lok Sabha member, died of cardiac arrest on Tuesday. He was 60. Wadiyar is survived by his wife Pramoda Devi.

T he history of Mysore kingdom never fails to surprise as a modern reader — at least on one particular aspect. The Maharajas’ reign was so good that the subjects were really cushioned from the ...

Between 1831 and 1881, the British, having dismissed the young Krishnaraja Wadiyar III for incompetence, took direct control of the Mysore kingdom.

National Engineer's Day is celebrated on September 15 every year to mark the birth anniversary of Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, a statesman and diwan of the former Mysore kingdom who is credited with ...

Ragavendra MS, descendant of a former minister of Mysore's royal kingdom, poses with decorated elephants on the eve of the final day of the Dussehra festivities, in Mysuru, India, Saturday, Oct ...