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Glossary
- AgraharaAdministration
- A village or settlement granted to Brahmin scholars, usually revenue-free, recorded extensively in Ganga and Hoysala inscriptions.
- Amara-nayakaAdministration
- The Vijayanagara system assigning revenue-bearing territory to a warrior chief in exchange for maintaining troops for the empire.
- BasadiArchitecture
- A Jain temple, especially in Karnataka; Ganga-period basadis survive across the region.
- DalavayiAdministration
- Commander-in-chief of the Mysore army; between 1734 and 1761 dalavayis held effective power over the Wadiyar kings.
- DewanAdministration
- Chief minister of the state of Mysore, the pivot of its administration from Purnaiah (1799) to Mirza Ismail (1941).
- GandabherundaCulture
- The two-headed mythical bird used as the royal insignia of Mysore and today the emblem of the Government of Karnataka.
- GangavadiGeography
- The territory of the Western Gangas, broadly the modern southern Karnataka districts around the Kaveri.
- GopuraArchitecture
- The monumental gateway tower of a South Indian temple, dominant in Vijayanagara and Nayaka-period building.
- JagatiArchitecture
- The raised platform on which Hoysala temples stand, permitting a processional path around the shrine.
- Jamboo SavariCulture
- The elephant procession that closes Mysore Dasara, carrying the idol of Chamundeshwari in the golden howdah.
- KereGeography
- A tank or reservoir; the chain of kere across southern Karnataka was the backbone of pre-modern irrigation.
- Nada HabbaCulture
- The 'state festival' — the official designation of Mysore Dasara in Karnataka.
- NaduAdministration
- A locality-level agrarian and political unit in medieval South India, analysed by Burton Stein as the basic building block of the state.
- RenditionAdministration
- The restoration of Mysore to Wadiyar rule on 25 March 1881, after fifty years of British Commission administration.
- RyotwariAdministration
- A land-revenue settlement made directly with the cultivator (ryot) rather than an intermediary; adopted in Mysore in the nineteenth century.
- Subsidiary allianceAdministration
- The treaty system by which an Indian state surrendered external relations and hosted a British garrison in return for internal autonomy; applied to Mysore in 1799.
- VachanaCulture
- A free-verse devotional form in Kannada, central to the twelfth-century Lingayat movement of Basava and Akka Mahadevi.
- WadiyarDynasty
- From Kannada odeya, 'lord'; the dynastic name of the rulers of Mysore from 1399 to 1950, also spelt Wodeyar.
- VimanaArchitecture
- The tower over the sanctum of a South Indian temple, distinct from the gateway gopura.
- EkikaranaAdministration
- The unification movement that gathered Kannada-speaking territories into a single state, achieved in 1956.