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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. In 1956…
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.
Mar 2, 2021 · Handbook of the Madras Presidency : with a notice of the overland route to India Bookreader Item Preview ... India--Tamil Nadu:India--Chennai, India--Madras, MinistryOfCulture Publisher John murray, London Collection digitallibraryindia; JaiGyan Language English Item Size 863447797. Addeddate 2021-03-02 11:39:36 Identifier dli.ministry.02486 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9q346n0b
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.
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.
