Droplock101,

The Dussehra festival is celebrated in style by the Wadeyars at Mysore every year and until a few years ago they would trap elephants using the Khedda system. I was fortunate to witness one of the last kheddas as a boy in the early 1970s before the royal family ran out of money and stopped the exercise. That said, if you visit Mysore during Dussehra it is a wonderful place and though the celebrations lose a bit of their past grandeur wuth every successive year, theya re indeed worth attending because they are a vision of how life was in the past.

Cheers and good hunting!