Krishnaraja Wodeyar III was an Indian king who was the twenty-second Maharaja of Mysore. He ruled the kingdom for nearly seventy years, from 30 June 1799 to 27 March 1868, for a good portion of the latter period of which he was merely a nominal ruler. He is known for his contribution and patronage to different arts and music during his reign. He was succeeded by his biological grandson and adopted son, Chamarajendra Wadiyar X.
Photograph of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III, circa 1866
Krishnaraja Wodeyar III as a child
"Queens" of Mysore: left, Krishnaraja Wodeyar III's first wife, Devajammani, right, his second wife, also named Devajammani. Thomas Hickey, 1805. The two queens in the painting are thought to advertize vaccination over variolation, as they display the respective traces on their skin.
The maharaja of Mysore was the king and principal ruler of the southern Indian Kingdom of Mysore and briefly of Mysore State in the Indian Dominion roughly between the mid- to late-1300s and 1950. The maharaja's consort was called the maharani of Mysore.
A miniature art of Krishnaraja Wodeyar I, who despite having married nine wives, never bore an issue and the direct (male) lineage of Yaduraya ended with him
A pencil sketch of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III. He was a patron of arts and culture who also built numerous temples across the kingdom
A monochrome of Maharaja Chamaraja Wadiyar X. He instituted the Mysore Representative Assembly, the first parliamentary setup in British India
A portrait of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV. The king is hailed the maker of Modern Mysore
