| Chief Commissioner of the Kingdom of Mysore | |
|---|---|
| Status | Abolished |
| Reports to | Governor-General of India |
| Residence | Bangalore |
| Appointer | Governor-General of India |
| Formation | 19 October 1831 |
| Abolished | 22 February 1881 |
The Mysore Commission, also known as Commissioners' Rule or simply the Commission Rule,[1] was a period and form of government in the history of the Kingdom of Mysore and the neighbouring province of Coorg from 1831 to 1881 when British commissioners administered the kingdom due to the deposition of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III and later during the minority of Yuvaraja Chamaraja Wadiyar X. A board of commissioners constituted the chief executive body and provincial head of the kingdom's government. The commission began with uninstallation of Krishnaraja Wodeyar III as King in 1831 and ended with investing Chamaraja Wadiyar X as the new maharaja in 1881.
Coorg province, however, ruled as a "non-regulation" province under Mysore Commission,[2] would never again return to its Coorg rajas and would remain part of Madras Presidency until India's independence from the British crown, after which it was absorbed into Mysore State and became a district. After Mysore Commission was dissolved, a new Chief Commissioner of Coorg was appointed.
- ^ Rice 1897, p. 434
- ^ Thornton, Thomas Henry (1898). General Sir Richard Meade and the feudatory states of central and southern India; a record of forty-three year's service as soldier, political officer and administrator. University of California. London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co.