10.1Subsidiary alliance and Purnaiah's regency
After 1799 Mysore became a princely state in subsidiary alliance with the East India Company: it surrendered external relations and maintained a Company garrison, in return for internal autonomy under Krishnaraja Wadiyar III. Dewan Purnaiah governed as regent until 1811, restoring finances and irrigation works.[1]
10.2The Commission, 1831–1881
Citing misgovernment and the Nagar (Nagara) peasant insurrection of 1830–31, the British assumed direct administration of Mysore in 1831. For fifty years the state was run by Commissioners, of whom Mark Cubbon (1834–1861) and Lewin Bowring were the most consequential; the capital of administration shifted to Bangalore.[2]
The Commission period brought survey and settlement of land revenue, the beginnings of a road and rail network, English-medium schools, and the compilation of gazetteers and inscription volumes — including B. L. Rice's Epigraphia Carnatica, a monument of Indian epigraphy.[3]
10.3The Rendition of 1881
Sustained petitioning, and the adoption of Chamarajendra Wadiyar X, led to the Rendition of Mysore on 25 March 1881: rule was returned to the Wadiyar dynasty under an Instrument of Transfer, with a British Resident and an annual subsidy.[1]
The restored state moved rapidly to institutionalise consultative government: the Mysore Representative Assembly, established in 1881, is generally described as the first legislative body of its kind in India.[4]