Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar crowned the new maharaja of Mysore

 

A 23-year-old economics graduate from the University of Massachusetts has been crowned the new maharaja of Mysore, titular head of the 600-year-old Wadiyar dynasty in southern India. 

Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar was anointed at an elaborate ceremony lasting nearly two hours.
It was conducted by more than 40 priests across 15 temples spread across the Mysore Palace grounds.

 

He succeeds his grand uncle Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar who died in December 2013, was childless and did not name an heir, but his widow Pramodadevi Wadiyar adopted Yaduveer Gopalraj Urs, a relative, at a ceremony in February 2015

 

Yaduveer took oath in Kannada, while seated on a silver throne as the 27th titular head of the Wodiyar dynasty that was founded in 1399 by Raja Wodiyar