Dodda Krishnaraja Wodeyar I

Krishnaraja Wodeyar I
Wodeyar of Mysore
Dodda Krishnaraja I, ruler of Mysore
Reign	1714–1732
Coronation	3 March 1714
Predecessor	Narasaraja Wodeyar II
Successor	Chamaraja Wodeyar VII
Born	18 March 1702
Died	5 March 1732
Spouse	Devaja Ammani (Devajamma) Avaru Chelvaja Ammani Avaru Kanle Ammani Avaru (9 wives)
Issue	One son (d. aged six-months)
House	Wodeyar
Father	Narasaraja Wodeyar II
Mother	Chelvaja Ammani Avaru

Maharaja Shri Dodda Krishnaraja Wodeyar I (18 March 1702 – 5 March 1732) was the wodeyar ruler (Raja) of Mysore, a petty kingdom in southern India. His reign lasted from 1714 to 1732 CE.

Dodda Krishnaraja was born on 18 March 1702. He was the first-born son of Kanthirava Narasaraja II, by his second wife Chelvaja Ammani Avaru. A month before his tenth birthday—upon his father's death—he acceded to the Mysore gaddi. Although he was married nine times, direct descent in the Wodeyar lineage stopped with him; a son was born to his first wife, but died aged six months. Dodda Krishnaraja died on 5 March 1732 at the age of 29, and was succeeded by an adopted son.

Just before Dodda Krishnaraja's accession, a change had come in the governance of the Mughal Province of Sira (Carnatic Bijapur) to the north and northeast of Mysore. In 1713, Carnatic-Bijapur was split into a payanghat jurisdiction with capital at Arcot and governed by a newly styled Nawab of Arcot, and a balaghat jurisdiction, governed by a newly styled Nawab of Sira. That same year, the governor of Carnatic-Bijapur, Sadat-ulla Khan, was made the new Nawab of Arcot, and Amin Khan was appointed Nawab of Sira; Mysore, however, remained a formal tributary state of Sira. This division, and the resulting loss of revenue from the rich maidān region of Mysore, made Sadat-ulla Khan unhappy and, in collusion with the rulers of Kadapa, Kurnool, and Savanur and the Maratha Raja of Gutti, he decided to march against Dodda Krishnaraja. However, the Nawab of Sira, anxious to preempt the coalition's action, hit upon a plan himself of reaching the Mysore capital, Seringapatam. In the end, both Nawabs—of Arcot and Sira—settled upon a joint invasion led by the former. Dodda Krishnaraja, for his part, was able to "buy off this formidable confederacy" by offering a tribute of Rs. 10 million (10 million). This outcome, however, made Mysore vulnerable to similar future claims, which, for example, were made successfully two years later by Maratha raiders who appeared in the Mysore capital. The resulting depletion of the Mysore treasury, led Mysore to itself attack and absorb the poligar chiefdom of Magadi to its north.