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Above two quotes during the visit of Lord Willingdon, the Governor-General, with Lady Willingdon to the Mysore State in December 1933.Modern_Mysore, pages: 437-440, publisher: archive.org, retrieved: 26 November 2013
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Federation is a word that is on everybody's lips to-day. That it will come I am confident, that it will come and I look to see Mysore play a leading part in the destinies of the new India a part she is well qualified to play by her traditions and her long and distinguished history, no less than by her capacity for administration and by the fact that she has as her Ruler one of the most enlightened and broad-minded Princes in India

— Above two quotes during the visit of Lord Willingdon

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Federation is a word that is on everybody's lips to-day. That it will come I am confident, that it will come and I look to see Mysore play a leading part in the destinies of the new India a part she is well qualified to play by her traditions and her long and distinguished history, no less than by her capacity for administration and by the fact that she has as her Ruler one of the most enlightened and broad-minded Princes in India" in the context of "Above two quotes during the visit of Lord Willingdon, the Governor-General, with Lady Willingdon to the Mysore State in December 1933.Modern_Mysore, pages: 437-440, publisher: archive.org, retrieved: 26 November 2013" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV" (About Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, From Modern Mysore) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV

About Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV

Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (June 4, 1884 – August 3, 1940, Bangalore Palace), also known as Nalwadi Krishna Raja Wadiyar, was the Maharaja of the princely state of Mysore of the Wodeyar dynasty of Mysore from 1902 until his death in 1940. He had a celebrated status among the princely rulers of the Indian States under the British rule and living the ideal expressed in Plato's Republic. He was called a philosopher-king, Rajarshi. He was also a connoisseur of both Carnatic Music and Hindustani Music, and his reign was described by some as "the golden age of Carnatic classical music". He was one of the world's wealthiest men, with a personal fortune estimated in 1940 to be worth $400 million which would be equivalent to $56 billion in 2010 prices.