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Kattemad Agitation
On 27 December 2024, Kodava devotees belonging to Kattemad village in Madikeri taluk in Kodagu district, Karnataka were stopped from going to the Sree Maha Mrithyunjaya Temple in their village and refused entry to the annual temple festival for wearing their traditional attire - sari for women and ''kupya chele'' () for men -by temple management as fer baylaw. There has been extensive news coverage about the incident and its aftermath ever since. Background The Kattemad Mruthunjaya temple is a renovated one; it was built around a ''keri'' Mahadeva linga in the wilderness using funds collected from Kodavas across Kodagu. The first annual temple festival was observed in December 2024. The village Kattemad is called Kattemadu in Kannada. The Nandetira Kodava clan were the hereditary village and temple chieftains. A discriminatory bylaw had been made to bar those wearing the Kodava dress without regard to ancestral practise, by an Arebhashe committee that occupied the temple in th ...
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Kodava People
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Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar
Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar (born 24 March 1992) is an Indian politician and a royal scion from the Wadiyar dynasty, currently serving as a Member of Parliament for Mysore since 2024. The great-grandson of Maharaja Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, Yaduveer Wadiyar was adopted on 10 December 2013 by Pramoda Devi Wadiyar after the demise of her husband Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, Srikantadatta Wadiyar. He was installed as the titular, "Maharaja of Mysore" in a private ceremony in 2015. Early life and education Yaduveer Wadiyar was born Yaduveer Gopal Raj Urs, the only son of Swarup Anand Gopal Raj Urs and Princess Leela Tripurasundari Devi. He has a younger sister, Jayathmika Lakshmi. Yaduveer's paternal great great-grandfather was Sardar Gopalaraj Urs, the eldest brother to Maharaja Chamarajendra Wadiyar X who had been adopted into the royal family by their maternal grandfather Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III and had ascended the throne in 1868. A closer connect ...
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