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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Apr 14, 2008 · Manual of the administration of the Madras presidency. Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Sep 21, 2009 · Summary. By 1800, the British had acquired most of what was to become their presidency of Madras. They found themselves in possession of a collection of territories which covered about 140,000 square miles and which, between 1870 and 1920, came to contain a population of some 30 to 40 millions.
Jul 20, 2018 · Odisha was formed in 1930, leaving Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and parts of present day Karnataka and Kerala as Madras Presidency. From 1937 this became Madras Province and we started having...
Political organisations in Madras On the lines of Bengal and Bombay presidencies, the middle-class intelligentsia of the Madras presidency also showed interest in political activities. They, too, needed political organizations to protest against British policies and to awaken the masses.
