The scion of Mysore royal family Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar (60) died in Bangalore of cardiac arrest on Tuesday.
According to doctors at Vikram Hospital in Bangalore, Wadiyar had suffered a cardiac arrest around noon at his residence after which he was rushed to the hospital. He was declared dead around 2.30 pm. Wadiyar was recently elected as president of the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA). Born in 1953, Wadiyar is the only son of Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, the last ruling Maharaja of Mysore. He is married to Pramoda Devi, who hails from Ursu family of the erstwhile Princely State of Mysore.
Wadiyar was elected as Member of Parliament from Mysore four times as a Congress candidate. The Wadiyar dynasty was an Indian Hindu dynasty that ruled the Kingdom of Mysore from 1399 to 1947, until the independence of India from British rule and the subsequent unification of the Indian dominion and princely states into the Republic of India.
The dynasty was established by Vijaya. Vijaya took on the name and ruled Mysore, then a small town, from 1399 CE to 1423 CE. The Mysore kingdom was ruled by a succession of Wadiyar rulers for the next couple of centuries.
