Nanjaraja Wodeyar  Nanjaraja Wodeyar (Nanjaraja Wodeyar Bahadur; 1748 – 2 August 1770) was the nineteenth maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore for only four years, from 1766 to 1770, as puppet under "sarvadhikari" Hyder Ali, like his father was. He was eldest son of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar II, and succeeded on the death of his father in 1766.