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1 day ago · The Madras Presidency or Madras Province, officially called the Presidency of Fort St. George until 1937, was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India and later the Dominion of India. At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of southern India, including all of present-day Andhra Pradesh, almost all of Tamil Nadu and ...
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1 day ago · The present-day Chennai city emerged from the British East India Company's fort and a trading post at Fort St. George. By 1652, Fort St. George was recognized as a presidency, and between 1668 and 1749 the company expanded its control. The English became masters of southern India and Madras, their administrative and commercial capital.
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May 10, 2024 · The Madras Courier is the first newspaper to be established in the Madras Presidency, British India. Published on October 12, 1785, it was the leading newspaper of its time. Selling for a princely sum of one rupee, it thrived for three decades. Two centuries later, this legacy is revived digitally.
Apr 25, 2024 · Kumaraswami Kamaraj (born July 15, 1903, Virudunagar, India—died October 2, 1975, Madras [now Chennai]) was an Indian independence activist and statesman who rose from humble beginnings to become a legislator in the Madras Presidency (an administrative unit of British India that encompassed much of southern India), chief minister (head of government) of the successor Madras state in ...
- Shanthie Mariet D'souza
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Apr 28, 2024 · In a letter to the Government of Madras and Robert Stanton Ellis, the chief secretary, on the workings of the Indian Contagious Diseases Act (1868) in its first six months, H. Stanborough, suggested that the health officer appointed to register and control cases of venereal diseases among women practising prostitution should extend his services to the entire city. 1 Most historians have ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Tyagaraja (born May 4, 1767, Madras Presidency [Tamil Nadu], India—died January 6, 1847, Madras Presidency [Tamil Nadu]) was an Indian composer of Karnatak songs of the genre kirtana, or kriti (devotional songs), and of raga s. He is the most prominent person in the history of southern Indian classical music, and he is venerated by ...
4 days ago · Malabar District, also known as Malayalam District, [1] [2] was an administrative district on the southwestern Malabar Coast of Bombay Presidency (1792–1800), [3] Madras Presidency (1800–1937), [4] Madras Province (1937–1950) and finally, Madras State (1950–1956) in India. It was the most populous and the third-largest district in the ...
