The Kingdom of Mysore and Hyderabad, more commonly referred to as Mysore, is a South Asian country occupying the bottom half of the Indian subcontinent. Its current ruler, Nizam Ali Singh Jafar, has held the throne since his coronation in 1997 upon the death of his uncle, Nizam Jafaral Akbar. The Kingdom is a "dual monarchy," in that it united the two Deccan kingdoms of Mysore and Hyderabad under a single crown in 1911 following the Pondicherry War, a part of the greater Colonial Wars, in which the French put down a popular rebellion in the region and united the two kingdoms into a single regional power.