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Wadiyar had continued to play a pivotal role in religious and social ceremonies, and the family is a lodestar and fountainhead of honour for many talented performing artists, musicians, and craftsmen; it continues to have an important role in the cultural life of Karnataka. Pramoda Devi
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and announced the name of her 'adopted son designate', Yaduveer
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customs, it was left to his widow, now the queen mother, Pramoda Devi, to adopt an heir to assume the position of head of the family. She and other members of the family, as also the former senior nobility of the state, pondered the question for over a year. During this interregnum, no celebrations
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Princess Gayatri Devi, the eldest daughter of Maharaja Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, making the maharaja his maternal great-grandfather. Thus, Yaduveer's maternal grandmother, Maharajakumari Gayatri Devi, was a sister of the late Maharaja
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