DUFFERIN CLOCK, MYSORE

        Dufferin Clock Tower is a heritage structure in Mysore.

        Located at the end of Devaraja Market , adducent to the KR Circle.

       This clock tower was commissioned in honor

        of the then British Viceroy of India,  Lord Dufferin.

 He was the first Viceroy of the colonial

India to pay a ceremonial and friendly state visit to the invitation of the Maharaja of Mysore   Chamaraja Wodeyar X  in 1886. ( though officially Lord Lytton visited Mysore some 10 years back, but on connection with the famine that plagued south India). 

Lord Dufferin was succeeded by the Viceroy of India (1884–1888) during the colonial period