इतिहास
Old Mysore's periodisation is set by who held Srirangapatna, not by the national calendar. Its ancient period is the long Western Ganga stretch at Kolar and then Talakad, and it closes in 1004 when the Cholas took Talakad. Its medieval period is six centuries of rule from somewhere else — Chola, then Hoysala, then Vijayanagara — during which the tank cascades were cut and the temple towns built, but the political centre sat outside the region. The modern period begins in 1610, when Raja Wodeyar I took Srirangapatna and the plateau was governed from inside itself again, and it does not break at 1757 or at 1857. Mysore was a state under its own dynasty, twice interrupted and never annexed, until 1947, which is why almost everything institutional here — the dams, the university, the factories, the ten-day Dasara — was built by a court rather than by a colonial administration.
कालक्रम यहाँ क्षेत्रीय है, राष्ट्रीय नहीं — मध्यकाल हर क्षेत्र में एक ही सदी से शुरू नहीं होता।
प्राचीनc. 350 – 1004 CE
The Western Gangas held this corner of the plateau for roughly six and a half centuries, first from Kolar and then from Talakad on the Cauvery, and they are the reason the region's oldest layer is Jain rather than anything else. Their ministers and generals endowed basadis across the Kolar and Hassan uplands, and the single object that fixes the period is the Bahubali monolith at Shravanabelagola, commissioned in 981 by Chavundaraya, who was a serving commander and not a king. Ganga rule ended not through internal collapse but through the Chola advance up the Cauvery, which turned the whole country into a Chola province and moved its administration south for the first time.
मध्यकालीन1004 – 1610
For six hundred years the region was a province rather than a polity. Chola administration gave way to the Hoysalas after Vishnuvardhana took Talakad in 1116, and Hoysala patronage produced the finest of the region's temples at Somanathapura, built by a general on his own land grant. After the Hoysalas fell in 1343 the plateau passed to Vijayanagara, which governed through nayakas and palegars holding fortified towns and their surrounding tank systems — Yelahanka, Magadi, Sira, Chikkaballapur, Mysuru. It is this arrangement, not any imperial project, that built the region as it now looks. A palegar who wanted revenue had to keep his tank chain in repair, so the same centuries that produced the granite forts produced the several thousand kere that still drain the Bengaluru plateau.
आधुनिक1610 – 1947
In 1610 Raja Wodeyar I took Srirangapatna from the Vijayanagara governor, and within three years tribute to Chandragiri had stopped. The island fort in the Cauvery became the capital of a state that survived, under four different kinds of government, until 1947. Chikka Devaraja Wodeyar pushed the frontier east and north; from 1761 Hyder Ali, who had risen through the army, governed as Sarvadhikari in the Wodeyar's name and his son Tipu Sultan ruled in his own; four wars with the East India Company between 1767 and 1799 ended with the storming of Srirangapatna and the restoration of a five-year-old Wodeyar under a British subsidiary treaty. The nineteenth century then produced the region's characteristic form of government — a dewan-run administration answering to a maharaja — and the twentieth turned it into the most heavily engineered princely economy in India.
शासक और सेनापति
Chavundaraya Senapati and minister सेनापति 940–989
Commander and minister to Marasimha II and Rachamalla IV, and the man who put down the succession fighting of 975. He commissioned the Bahubali monolith at Shravanabelagola in 981 and wrote the Chavundaraya Purana, one of the earliest surviving Kannada prose works — a general who is remembered for a statue and a book rather than for a battle.
राजवंश: Western Ganga. राजधानी: Talakad
Kempe Gowda I Nadaprabhu संस्थापक 1510–1569
Laid out the pete at Bengaluru in 1537 with Vijayanagara sanction, dividing it into named trade streets — Doddapete, Chikkapete, Nagarthapete, Cottonpete, Akkipete — that still exist as the market quarters of the old city. His territories were confiscated and he was held for a period before being restored.
राजवंश: Yelahanka line, under Vijayanagara. राजधानी: Yelahanka, then Bengaluru
Raja Wodeyar I Raja संस्थापक
Took Srirangapatna from the Vijayanagara governor in 1610 and moved his seat to the island. Tribute to Chandragiri stopped within three years, which is the point at which Mysore stops being a subordinate holding and becomes a state.
राजवंश: Wodeyars of Mysore. राजधानी: Srirangapatna
Chikka Devaraja Wodeyar Raja शासक 1673–1704
Extended the kingdom into Salem, Bengaluru, Hassan, Chikkamagaluru and Tumakuru and rebuilt its revenue and postal departments. The administrative machinery the eighteenth century inherited — and that Hyder Ali took over intact — is largely his.
राजवंश: Wodeyars of Mysore. राजधानी: Srirangapatna
Hyder Ali Sarvadhikari, later Nawab सेनापति 1761–1782
A soldier who rose through the Mysore army and from 1761 held the administration in the Wodeyar's name without taking the throne. He absorbed Keladi in 1763 and Sonda in the 1760s, fought the first Anglo-Mysore war to a negotiated close in 1769, and died on campaign in December 1782.
राजवंश: Rulers of Mysore. राजधानी: Srirangapatna
Tipu Sultan Badshah शासक 1782–1799
Succeeded in December 1782 and ruled for seventeen years. He closed the second war with the Treaty of Mangalore in 1784, lost half the kingdom and gave two sons as hostages under the Treaty of Seringapatam in 1792, sent embassies to Constantinople and to France, issued a new coinage and calendar, expanded state trading and the iron-cased rocket corps, and sent an agent to Bengal to bring silk rearing into Mysore — the beginning of the sericulture the region still lives on. He was killed at Srirangapatna on 4 May 1799.
राजवंश: Rulers of Mysore. राजधानी: Srirangapatna
Purnaiah Dewan संरक्षक 1799–1811
Accountant under Hyder Ali, dewan under Tipu Sultan, and then regent for the child Krishnaraja Wodeyar III from 1799 to 1811 — the one figure whose career runs straight through the change of regime. He resurveyed the land, restored allowances to temples and mathas, set up a grievance court, and cut a nine-mile canal for the capital's water. He died at Srirangapatna in March 1812.
राजवंश: Administration of Mysore. राजधानी: Srirangapatna
M. Visvesvaraya Dewan प्रशासक 1912–1918
An engineer before he was an administrator. His dewanship produced the University of Mysore in 1916, the Mysore Chamber of Commerce, the state bank and the engineering and industrial schemes that the Krishnaraja Sagara dam and the Bhadravathi ironworks came out of. The pattern of a princely state spending its revenue on infrastructure rather than on display is set here.
राजवंश: Administration of Mysore. राजधानी: Mysuru and Bengaluru