Kingdom of Mysore: Difference between revisions

===Early history===

{{Main |Origin of the Kingdom of Mysore}}

Sources for the history of the kingdom include numerous extant lithic and copper plate [[epigraphy|inscriptions]], records from the Mysore palace and contemporary literary sources in [[Kannada]], [[Persian language|Persian]] and other languages.<ref name="vamsha">Kamath (2001), pp. 11–12, pp. 226–227; Pranesh (2003), p. 11</ref><ref name="vamsha10">Narasimhacharya (1988), p. 23</ref><ref name="vamsa">Subrahmanyam (2003), p. 64; Rice E.P. (1921), p. 89</ref> According to traditional accounts, the kingdom originated as a small state based in the modern city of [[Mysore]] and was founded by two brothers, Yaduraya (also known as Vijaya) and Krishnaraya. Their origins are mired in legend and are still a matter of debate; while some historians posit a northern origin at [[Dwarka]],<ref name="cha">Kamath (2001), p. 226</ref><ref name="feud">Rice B.L. (1897), p. 361</ref> others locate it in Karnataka.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ikegame|first1=Aya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bV5ElF17ezwC&pg=PA76|title=Princely India Re-imagined: A Historical Anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to the present|date=7 May 2013|publisher=Routledge|pages=76–77|isbn=978-0-415-55449-7}}</ref><ref name="dwarka">Pranesh (2003), pp. 2–3</ref><ref name="opportune">Wilks, Aiyangar in Aiyangar and Smith (1911), pp. 275–276</ref> Yaduraya is said to have married Chikkadevarasi, the local princess and assumed the feudal title "Wodeyar" ({{lang-kn|ಒಡೆಯರ್|Oḍeyar|lit=lord}}), which the ensuing dynasty retained.<ref name="title">Aiyangar (1911), p. 275; Pranesh (2003), p. 2</ref> The first unambiguous mention of the Wodeyar family is in 16th century [[Kannada literature]] from the reign of the Vijayanagara king [[Achyuta Deva Raya]] (1529–1542); the earliest available inscription, issued by the Wodeyars themselves, dates to the rule of the petty chief Timmaraja II in 1551.<ref name="prin">Stein (1989), p. 82</ref>