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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 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.
By the mid-18th century, the three principal trading settlements including factories and forts, were then called the Madras Presidency (or the Presidency of Fort St. George), the Bombay Presidency, and the Bengal Presidency (or the Presidency of Fort William)—each administered by a governor.
This is a list of the governors, agents, and presidents of colonial Madras, initially of the English East India Company, up to the end of British colonial rule in 1947.
law and order in Madras Presidency, during a vital 30-year period of British rule in India-from 1850 to 1880. This is a period which covers the Torture Commis-sion (1855), Great Revolt (1857), Madras Police Act 1859, Indian Penal Code 1860 and establishment of the Madras High Court in 1862. All these events were
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The Ryotwari system was vigorously implemented in the Madras Presidency during the administration of Governor Munroe (1820-1827). This system reduced the assessment to one-third of produce.
