23.1Foundations
Public education in Mysore expanded under the Commission and after the Rendition; the Maharaja's College traces its origins to a school founded in 1833. In 1916 the University of Mysore was established — the sixth university in India and the first in a princely state — with Kannada as a medium of instruction alongside English.[1]
23.2Research institutions
The Oriental Research Institute, founded in 1891, houses tens of thousands of palm-leaf manuscripts, and is where the manuscript of Kautilya's Arthashastra was identified and published by R. Shamasastry in 1909 — a discovery that reshaped the study of ancient Indian statecraft.[2]
Later foundations include the CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (1950), the Central Institute of Indian Languages (1969), the Defence Food Research Laboratory, the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, JSS institutions and the National Institute of Engineering.[3]
23.3Scholarship on Mysore's past
The state's own scholarship is central to the historiography of Karnataka: B. L. Rice's Epigraphia Carnatica and Gazetteer, the Mysore Archaeological Department's annual reports, and the work of S. Srikanta Sastri at the University of Mysore remain standard references.[4]