MYSORE
The main road between the Palace and the old market lanes is at its liveliest after dark, and on Sundays and public holidays the palace illumination is visible from several points along it - a good free alternative if you're skipping the paid interior tour
The road was named in 1893 by Maharaja Chamaraja Wodeyar X in honor of his close friend Sayajirao Gaekwad III, the Maharaja of Baroda; both rulers had been adopted as princes into their respective royal families under similar circumstances. In the 1850s, the route had originally carried an open canal from the Kaveri River to Mysore Palace, which was later filled in and paved over after the canal became an unsanitary drainage channel. It subsequently became the ceremonial route of the Mysore Dasara procession on Vijayadashami, replacing the older, congested Doddapete commercial street, and today remains one of the city's principal commercial and pedestrian thoroughfares.
