Nanjaraja Wodeyar (Nanjaraja Wodeyar Bahadur; 1748 – 2 August 1770) was the nineteenth
maharaja
Mahārāja (; also spelled Maharajah, Maharaj) is a Sanskrit title for a "great ruler", "great king" or " high king".
A few ruled states informally called empires, including ruler raja Sri Gupta, founder of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire, a ...
of the
Kingdom of Mysore for only four years, from 1766 to 1770, as puppet under ''
sarvadhikari
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Sarvādhikārī is a title with diverse uses in India, including:
*an old title for the Chief minister of a southern Indian ruler, notably of:
**under the Western Ganga Dynasty's Maharaja Dharma ...
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Hyder Ali
Hyder Ali ( حیدر علی, ''Haidarālī''; 1720 – 7 December 1782) was the Sultan and ''de facto'' ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India. Born as Hyder Ali, he distinguished himself as a soldier, eventually drawing the att ...
, like his father was.
Life
He was eldest son of Maharaja
Krishnaraja Wodeyar II
Krishnaraja Wadiyar II (1728 – 25 April 1766Hayavadana Rao, Conjeeveram. History of Mysore (1399-1799 A.D.): 1704-1766. India: Superintendent of the Government Press, 1946.), was the eighteenth maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore from 1734 ...
, and succeeded on the death of his father in 1766.
See also
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Wodeyar dynasty
The Wadiyar dynasty (formerly spelt Wodeyer or Odeyer, also referred to as the Wadiyars of Mysore), is a late-medieval/ early-modern South Indian Hindu royal family of former kings of Mysore from the Urs clan originally based in Mysore city.
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1748 births
1770 deaths
Kings of Mysore
Nanjaraja
18th-century Indian royalty
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