The new ruler grew wealthy and powerful, twice declaring war on his sovereign and almost beating the sizeable but dissolute Ottoman army.
The new ruler had lots of money and power.
The home town of the maharajas regains a flicker of its old glory every October during the Dussehra festival, when the heir of the old rulers of Mysore State is paraded through the streets on his golden throne, surrounded by gorgeously caparisoned elephants .