It was a Hindu tradition in the Indian subcontinent that controlled the Kingdom of Mysore from 1399 to 1950. The kingdom was joined into the Dominion of India after its autonomy from British run the show. The Wodiyar line is the main imperial family from Mysore and has a place with the Yadav line.

The cause of Wodeyars is followed to Yadavs of Dvaraka, who came to Karnataka and seeing the common magnificence of the place made Mysore their dwelling place. The kummaras at that point led over the territory for 600 years. The administration was set up in 1399 by Yaduraya Wodeyar. He governed Mysore under the Vijayanagara Empire until 1423. After Yaduraya Wodeyar, the Mysore kingdom was prevailing by the Wadiyar rulers. The kingdom remained genuinely little amid this early period and was a piece of the Vijayanagara Empire. After the fall of the Vijayanagara Empire in 1565, the Kingdom of Mysore wound up autonomous and remained so until 1799.

Amid the rule of Krishnaraja Wadiyar III (1799– 1868), the locale went under the control of the British Empire. His successors changed the English spelling of their regal name to Wadiyar and took the title of Bahadur. The last two rulers of the administration, Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV, and Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, additionally acknowledged the British design Knight Grand Cross of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

The Vijayanagara Empire crumbled in 1565. The power vacuum made not long after was misused by Raja Wadiyar (ruled 1578– 1617). He extended the outskirts of the Mysore kingdom and in 1610 changed the capital city from Mysore to Srirangapatna; an uncommon island shaped by the stream Kaveri, which gave normal assurance against military assaults.

Later renowned leaders of the administration included Kanthirava Narasaraja I (ruled 1638– 1659), who extended the boondocks of the Mysore kingdom to Trichy in Tamil Nadu. The line achieved its crest under Chikka Devaraja (ruled 1673– 1704), who transformed the organization of the domain by partitioning it into 18 divisions (called Chavadis) and he likewise presented an intelligible arrangement of tax collection.

From 1760 to 1799, the administer of the line was basically ostensible, with genuine power in the hands of the dalwai, or presidents, Hyder Ali and his child Tipu Sultan, who extended the kingdom forcefully, yet conflicted with the British East India Company. After Tipu Sultan was executed by the British in the Battle of Srirangapatna in 1799, the Wadiyars were reestablished to a decreased kingdom.