You have referred in your address to what your generosity has termed my 'sacrifice'. I do not look upon it as such. If destiny had decreed that over the past few centuries the progress and the prosperity of the people of this beloved State, should be in the hands of the Wadeyars of Mysore, then that same destiny now ordains that the time is ripe for the people, now grown to full political stature in a free democratic Republic, to rule themselves... the rule of the Maharajas has indeed fulfilled its purpose, the purpose of making the people fit to rule themselves.


On his 37th birthday in his reply to an address presented to him by the Chief Minister on 29 July 1956, quoted in "Jaya Chamaraja Wodeyar".

Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar Quotes

You have referred in your address to what your generosity has termed my 'sacrifice'. I do not look upon it as such. If destiny had decreed that over...

You have referred in your address to what your generosity has termed my 'sacrifice'. I do not look upon it as such. If destiny had decreed that over...

You have referred in your address to what your generosity has termed my 'sacrifice'. I do not look upon it as such. If destiny had decreed that over...

You have referred in your address to what your generosity has termed my 'sacrifice'. I do not look upon it as such. If destiny had decreed that over...