Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV Quote

I recall to mind on this occasion, said His Highness, the words which I spoke nearly 21 years ago when I opened the Representative Assembly in person for the first time after I assumed the reins of Government. The hopes I then expressed of the value of the yearly gatherings of the Assembly in contributing to the well-being and contentment of my subjects have been amply fulfilled. The Legislative Council, too, which came into existence in 1907.

At the Inauguration of the Reformed Legislative Council and the Representative Assembly on the 17th March 1924.

Modern Mysore