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MYSORE 95 usurped the masnad, his military prowess, with the wealth seized by him at Bednúr in 1763, having made him the first personage in the State. But his dynasty was as brief as it was brilliant, and its history is too well known to need recital at length. What the father won, the son lost; and on the defeat and death of Tipu Sultán at the siege of Seringapatan in 1799, the English conquerors restored to the throne a representative of the ancient line in the person of Krishna Ráj, son of Cháma Rij of Arakotára. From 1799 to 1810, the Rájá being a minor, the administration was conducted by Purnaiya, a Maráthá Brahman of great ability, who ruled with a vigorous hand and filled the State coffers. But when, on his retirement, the young chief was invested personally with sovereign authority, he soon dissipated the wealth accumulated by his minister, and commenced a career of misgovernment which ended by the British authorities assuming in 1831 the adıninistration in his name, On his denise in 1868 he was succeeded by an adopted son, the third child of Chikka Krishna Arasu of the Bettada Kote branch of the royal house, the new sovereign being installed under the title of Cháma Rajendra Wodeyar. When the gorernment was first taken out of the hands of Krishna Ráj, two Commissioners were nominated to represent British authority. This arrangement, however, proved embarrassing, and Colonel Morrison was appointed sole Commissioner in Jay 1834. He was almost immediately succeeded by Lieutenant-Colonel (afterwards Sir Mark) Cubbon, who ruled the country with distinguished ability and success until 1861. The Government of India then resolved to introduce a system of adıninistration more in accordance with that in force in British territory, The Court of Directors had ordered that the mode of government should be one which could be worked by native agency; but it was, almost from the first, found necessary to appoint three European officers to superintend the administration of the then three great Divisions of the State. In 1861, the British regulation system was more fully introduced, and the European staff was increased. But on the recognition of the claims of the adopted son to succeed to the throne when he came of age, arrangements were gradually made for reorganizing the administrative constitution of Mysore so as to adapt it for the future government of the Mahárájá by native agency. On the 25th March 1881, the Maharajá Cháma Rájendra Wodeyar was duly installed by the Governor of Madras, representing the Viceroy; and the Chief Commissioner handed over office to the new Díwán. Excepting the disappearance of the titles of the Chief Commissioner and the General Secretary, few changes in the methods of administration then took place. Present Matite Administration. - The following is a general view of the administration as established in 1881 on the rendition of the country