Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar

Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar
Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar
	Wadiyar in 2015
27th Head of the Wadiyar dynasty
Tenure	28 May 2015 – present
Predecessor	Srikantadatta Wadiyar
Spouse	Trishikha Kumari Wadiyar (m. 2016)
Issue	Aadyaveer Narasimharaja Wadiyar (born 2017)
Dynasty	Wadiyar dynasty
Religion	Hinduism
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 4 June 2024
Preceded by	Pratap Simha
Constituency	Mysore, Karnataka
Personal details
Born	Yaduveer Gopal Raj Urs; 24 March 1992 (age 32); Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Parents	Swarup Anand Gopal Raj Urs (father); Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar (adoptive father); Tripurasundari Devi (mother); Pramoda Devi Wadiyar (adoptive mother);
Residence	Mysore Palace

Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar (born 24 March 1992) is an Indian politician and a royal scion from the Wadiyar dynasty, currently serving as a Member of Parliament for Mysore since 2024. The great-grandson of Maharaja Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, Yaduveer Wadiyar was adopted on 10 December 2013 by Pramoda Devi Wadiyar after the demise of her husband Srikantadatta Wadiyar. He was installed as the titular, "Maharaja of Mysore" in a private ceremony in 2015.^[a]

^ Aldrich, Robert; McCreery, Cindy (2016), "European sovereigns and their empires 'beyond the seas'", in Robert Aldrich, Cindy McCreery (ed.), Crowns and colonies: European monarchies and overseas empires, Studies in Imperialism Book 142, Manchester University Press, p. 43, ISBN 9781526100894, Although Prime Minister Indira Gandhi deprived the India princes of their official titles and privy purses in 1971, the maharajas and other princes, such as the traditional Maharana of Udaipur, who now styles himself as the 'Custodian' of the House of Mewar in Rajasthan, retain wealth, influence and celebrity; in 2015, a twenty-three-year-old economics graduate was thus installed as the most recent Maharajah of Mysore.
^ Ramusack, Barbara N. (2004). The Indian princes and their states. Cambridge University Press. p. 279. ISBN 978-0-521-26727-4. In recent decades nobles and merchants in the former princely states have joined princes in opening palaces, havelis, forts and hunting lodges, from Mysore city in the south to the foothills of the Himalayas, to tourists.

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[aldrich-macreery-1-1] Aldrich, Robert; McCreery, Cindy (2016), "European sovereigns and their empires 'beyond the seas'", in Robert Aldrich, Cindy McCreery (ed.), Crowns and colonies: European monarchies and overseas empires, Studies in Imperialism Book 142, Manchester University Press, p. 43, ISBN 9781526100894, Although Prime Minister Indira Gandhi deprived the India princes of their official titles and privy purses in 1971, the maharajas and other princes, such as the traditional Maharana of Udaipur, who now styles himself as the 'Custodian' of the House of Mewar in Rajasthan, retain wealth, influence and celebrity; in 2015, a twenty-three-year-old economics graduate was thus installed as the most recent Maharajah of Mysore.

[ramusack-1-2] Ramusack, Barbara N. (2004). The Indian princes and their states. Cambridge University Press. p. 279. ISBN 978-0-521-26727-4. In recent decades nobles and merchants in the former princely states have joined princes in opening palaces, havelis, forts and hunting lodges, from Mysore city in the south to the foothills of the Himalayas, to tourists.

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