Srikanta Wadiyar

Srikanta Wadiyar
Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, Scion of Mysore Royal Family
Reign	September 1974 – present
Predecessor	Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
Spouse	Pramoda Devi
Full name
Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wadiyar
House	Wadiyar
Father	Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
Mother	Tripura Sundari Ammani
Born	(1953-02-20) 20 February 1953 Mysore, India.
Religion	Hinduism

Maharaja Sri Kantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar Bahadur, Maharaja of Mysore, also named Srikanta Wadiyar, is the present head of the Wadiyar dynasty that ruled the Kingdom of Mysore between 1399 and 1950. Wadiyar was also a member of Indian Parliament from the Mysore constituency.

Biography

Born in 1953, the only son of Maharaja Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, the last ruling Maharaja of Mysore and his second wife, Maharani Tripura Sundari Ammani Avaru, Srikantha Datta Wadiyar succeeded his father as the head of his dynasty in September 1974.

He was elected as a Member of Parliament representing the Mysore Parliamentary Constituency four times as a candidate of Indian National Congress and has lost twice, once as a BJP candidate and recently as a Congress party candidate. He is married to Maharani Pramoda Devi Avaru, who hails from the famous Bettada Kote Ursu family of the erstwhile princely state of Mysore. The royal couple have Post-graduate degrees from the University of Mysore in Political Science and Hindi respectively and have won gold medals for obtaining First Rank.

The Maharaja also represented Mysore University as a cricket player and was captain of the University team. He served as President of Karnataka State Cricket Association till November 2010.[1]

He is an acknowledged fashion designer and a promoter of Mysore silk sarees under his Royal Silk of Mysore brand name.

Although the Maharaja is the only son of the previous and last ruling Maharaja, and has no sons himself, he has several nephews by his sisters, and it is likely that one of them will be adopted and succeed upon his death. Adoption of heirs from the female line has been done before in the case of Chamaraja Wadiyar X.

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Srikanta Wadiyar Wodeyar dynasty Born: 1953
Titles in pretence
Preceded by Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur	— TITULAR — Maharaja of Mysore 1974– Reason for succession failure: Kingdom abolished in 1950	Incumbent Heir: —

Chiranjeevi Sri Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wadiyar was married on the 8th Feb 1976 at the Bangalore Palace Pavillion and his wedding card had RSVP:Huzur Secretary, The Palace, Mysore at the end of the card.