Srikanta Wadiyar

Maharaja Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar Bahadur (February 20, 1953 – December 10, 2013), also referred to as Srikanta Wadiyar, was the prince of Mysore Kingdom and 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.[1]
 
Srikanta Wadiyar
He studied in the exclusive private royal school at the Mysore Palace and completed his Secondary School education in the year 1967. He took horse riding lessons from the Government Riding School, Mysore. He had a British nanny and an Anglo-Indian nanny who groomed him. Mr Watsa was a mentor to him during his formative years. Srikanta Dutta Narasimharaja Wadiyar joined Maharaja CollegeMysore in 1968 to pursue his pre-uinversity course (1 year) and studied Bachelor in Arts degree from 1969 - 1972 majoring in English Literature and Political Science. His minor subject was Sociology. His second language was Kannada which was specially tutored to him by the well known Kannada scholar Prof K. Venkataramappa. He did his Masters in Political Science in Manasa Gangotri, University of Mysorebetween 1972 - 1974. He studies a course in Law as an open University student. Throughout his college career he was an avid cricket player and had a collection of cricket bats signed by International Test Cricket Players. He had also studied Western Classical Music and Carnatic Classical Music. In his youth he had studied Vedas as well. He was awarded the Gold Medal as the first rank student in M. A. Political Science. His wife, Mrs. Pramoda Devi, is a post-graduate in Hindi.

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