Mysore Representative Assembly (1881-1950)
Abstract
An attempt is made in this paper to trace the Mysore Representative Assembly 1881-
1950. In 1853 Dewan C Rangacharlu became Dewan of princely Mysore. He was an able
administrator during his administration he made the great achievements. Among the important
progressive reforms of those days, the establishment of “ People Representative Assembly” was
significant. It helped the people in the administration. It was started on the advise of J.D.Gardon.
In 1881 immediately after Dasara Celebration, the Assembly of this was convened at Mysore. In
the first session 144 members were presented. From that day on words for the first time in India,
the seeds of Democracy were sown in Mysore. The credit of this should go to the king
Chamaraja Wodeyar and Dewan Rangacharlu besides Resident Gardon.
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of the Province of Mysore, October 1881 (Bangalore, 1881). Appendix A. This source
will be hereafter cited as PMTA.
2. Address of the Dewans of Mysore to the Dasara Representative Assembly for the years
1881-1899 (Bangalore 1914) p. 1.
3. G.R. Josyer, History of Mysore and the Yadava Dynasty (Mysore 1950) p. 245.
4. PMRA (October 1888) p. 19.
5. Constitutional Developments in Mysore. Report of the Committee appointed to work out
the details of the scheme (Bangalore, 1923) p. 11.
6. M. Shama Rao, Modern Mysore from the Coronation of Chamaraja Wodeyar X in 1868
to the present time (Bangalore, 1936) p. 155.
7. Constitutional Reforms 1939 (Bangalore, 1939) p. 11.
8. PMRA, 1916 (Bangalore, 1916)
9. Proclamation of His Highness the Maharaja issued on 27 October 1923, Enclosed to
Appendix pp. 131-33 included in PMRA October 1923 (Bangalore, 1924).
10. Mysore Administrative Report 1923-24 (Bangalore, 1924)
11. Ibid.
12. PMRA June 1924 (Bangalore 1924) p. 1.
13. Proceedings of the Government of His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore, 27 October
1923.
14. Bjorn Hettne, The Political Economy of Indirect Rule, Mysore, 1881-1947 (New Delhi,
1978) p. 98.
15. PMRA June 1928 (Mysore 1928) pp. 54-5.
16. Ibid, 1933.
17. 16 October 1933, IOR/R/1/29/1150 Residency Records available at India Office Library,
London.
18. Constitutional Developments in Mysore, Report of the Committee appointed to work out
the details of the scheme. (Bangalore, 1923) p. 30.
19. PMRA, June 1934, p. 119.
20. Constitutional Developments n. 18, p.19
21. PMRA Budget Session, June 1934, pp. 83 and 124.
22. Mysore Administrative Report, 1939-40 (Bangalore, 1940) p.5.
23. Ibid.
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