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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.
Madras Presidency (also known as Madras Province and known officially as Presidency of Fort St. George) was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India.
Elihu Yale, Thomas Pitt and George Macartney are some of the well-known Presidents of Madras. Governors of the French East India Company[edit] In 1746, Dupleix's deputy, La Bordannais laid siege to Madras and captured the city.
The presidencies in British India were provinces of that region under the direct control and supervision of, initially, the East India Company and, after 1857, the British government. The three key presidencies in India were the Madras Presidency, the Bengal Presidency, and the Bombay Presidency.
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.
Aug 22, 2017 · On 22 August 1639, English official Francis Day obtained a grant of a 3-mile-long strip of land for the East India Company from the local ruler, Damarla Venkatadri Nayaka, the Nayaka of Wandiwash. This land was a fishing village called Madraspatnam.
Aug 22, 2023 · It was carved out of the larger Madras presidency that had covered parts of other South Indian states. In 1969, the state was officially renamed Tamil Nadu and in 1996, the capital city of Madras became Chennai.
The province was certainly the most artificial of all those held by the British in India. Its administrative and formal political unity masked enormous economic, linguistic and cultural diversities. The presidency was composed of seven clearly distinct geophysical regions, each with its own economy.
Madras Presidency was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India. At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of southern India, including the whole of the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh and parts of Odisha, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, and the union territory of Lakshadweep.
Nov 22, 2018 · The Presidency of Madras is one of the great territorial divisions of British India, bounded in the North by the presidencies of Bengal and Bombay, the Nizam’s dominions, and Nagpoor, and on the East, West, and South by the Indian Ocean.
