High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Maharaja Sri Sir Jaya Chamarajendra Wodeyar Bahadur, Maharaja of Mysore,GCB (18 July 1919 – 23 September 1974) was the 25th and the last Maharaja of the princely state of Mysore from 1940 to 1950. He was a noted philosopher, musicologist, political thinker and philanthropist.