It is indeed a very proud moment in the history of our club which is celebrating its Platinum jubilee this year. When we look back at the years which have gone by since this great institution was founded, we cannot forget that in those days Mysore was not just a city but a great princely State and it conjured myriad things of which every Mysorean was very proud. However, it would be difficult to write a more eloquent description of Mysore than one given below:

“A fair country, like a fair lady, generally has a more eventful history than her less favoured sisters. And Mysore is no exception to the rule. We have Cromlechs, dolmens, and rude stone implements belonging to the Paleolithic age.There are many beautiful spots associated with the great Sanskrit epics. It was Rama's arrow that made a great fissure in the yadugiri hill. The water fall at Chunchankatte enshrines the bath of Sita. Tradition tells us that the Bababudan hills were formed from a portion of the Sanjiva Mountain, which fell from the hands of Hanuman as he was flying to restore Lakshmana to consciousness. Bhima, tore the terrible Bakasura in twain on the French_Rocks, and slew Hidimba on the Chitradurga. The sage Gautama performed penance on a rock in the sacred Cauvery near Seringapatam, while Agastya had a hermitage at Kalasa, Parasurama at Nanjangud, Jamadagni at Chandragutti and Risyasringa at Sringeri.


In the historical period we have records of the Mauryan and Satavahana Empires, of the wars between the Pallavas and the Chalukyas, between the Hoysalas and the Yadavas. It was a minister of the Ganga Empire that gave us the largest monolithic statue in the world, the Gomata image. We have relics, too, of the Vijayanagar Empire, of the rule of Bijapur and Golkonda, of the Moghal governorship at Sira, and of the Mahratta Jaghirs at Bangalore and Kolar. The city of Seringapatam has a history stretching back through the ages, and under the Mysore Kingdom it became a great centre of learning.

The people of Mysore are naturally proud of a prince who has shown such unusual enterprise at his age in travelling both East and West in search of knowledge and culture.
When Yuvaraja returned from foreign tour Maharaja admitted him to a share in the responsibilities of administration. Yuvaraja became part of the constitutional machinery of Government as Extraordinary Member of Council. This gave him ample

scope for the exercise of his abilities, and an opportunity of giving his country the benefit of the wisdom gained in many lands, and matured in an original mind. He was methodical in his official work.