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State of Madras; Former state of India: Madras State (1947–1953) Map of Southern India (1953–1956) before the States Reorganisation Act of 1956 with Madras State in yellow: Capital: Madras: Area • Coordinates: History •
Linguistic map of the Madras Presidency. The Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Odia, Tulu and English languages were all spoken in the Madras Presidency. Tamil was spoken in the southern districts of the presidency from a few miles north of Madras city as far west as the Nilgiri hills and Western Ghats.
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Map of "Madras Presidency" from Pope, G. U. (1880) The Madras Presidency was a province of British India comprising most of the present day Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh along with a few districts and taluks of Karnataka , Kerala and Odisha .
Searchable map and satellite view of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The state was known as Madras until 1968. Tamil Nadu occupies the southeastern part of the Indian subcontinent and is bounded by the Bay of Bengal in the east, the Palk Strait and Palk Bay in the southeast, the Gulf of Mannar and the Laccadive Sea in the south.
…the story of the British-controlled Madras Presidency in relationship to the rise and fall of British power in India. After Indian independence in 1947, the Madras Presidency became Madras state. The state’s Telugu-speaking areas were separated to form part of the new state of Andhra Pradesh in 1953.
Jul 20, 2018 · It was July 27, 1956. Congressman Sankaralinganar, in his 70s, started what was the first of many instances of struggle for a cause: the renaming of Madras State to “Thamizhagam ...
State of Madras; Former State of India: 1950–1969: Madras State (1947-1953) Map of Southern India (1953–1956) before the States Reorganisation Act of 1956 with Madras State in yellow: Area • Coordinates: 13°05′N 80°16′E / 13.09°N 80.27°E / History: History
