Princely state - An 1895 group photograph of the eleven-year-old Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV, ruler of the princely state of Mysore in South India, with his brothers and sisters.  In 1799, his grandfather, then aged five, had been granted dominion of Mysore by the British and forced into a subsidiary alliance.  The British later directly governed the state between 1831 and 1881.