He reigned from 1578 to 1616 and in the year 1609-1o he seized the strong fortress of Seringapatam 14."' elE till then held hy a lieutenant of ti e Kings of ‘Tijayanagari on the Tuneahhadra had previously in 1 OK been z-:- :- subverted by the alliance of the Mahemedan Chefs of the Deccan and the descendants of the Vijayanagar dyna§ty. [...] ;..7 Not Ion 2 before the fall of Tippu Sultan the son of Haider Ali and the conquest of Seringapatam by the s on Sarunlay the 4th May 1799 Chamraj hid died in captivity; and when the British Government resolved that Mysore.should revert to the control of the family of its ancient Rulers an infant son of Chamraj by name Krishna Itaj„ Wadiar was placed on the Gadi of Mysore. [...] The affairs of the State however e'e.: ttell into disorder arter the retirement of Purnaiya; and the rule of tlaharajah Krishna Raj Wadiar terminated by the British Government assuming the direct administration of the country in 1831; retaining the Maharajah as the titular e;.4.34 Sovereign. [...] The Meeting was largely and influentially attended by the Members of the Society the Graduates and Under-Graduates of the Calcutta University and other respectable: Gentlemen of the metropolis and soberbs. [...] Reports of the addresses delivered on the occsion have appeared in the Bengali of the 18th and loth and the Amrita Bazar Patrika and the Hindu Patriot of the 18th December 1903.
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