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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Madras Presidency (also known as Madras Province and known officially as Presidency of Fort St. George) was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India.

  4. 16 minutes ago · Naturally, the administration wanted to take advantage of the momentum of this engineering exploit. The second reason was related to the traffic of workers from the Madras Presidency to Ceylon.

  5. Tamil Nadu was then part of the Madras Presidency which included present-day Andhra Pradesh (Coastal areas and Rayalaseema), Karnataka (Bengaluru, Bellary, South Canara), Kerala (Malabar) and even Odisha (Ganjam).

  6. He was born in Kalavakuru, Madras Presidency, British India (now Andhra Pradesh, India). He made his debut in the Telugu film “Pathala Bhairavi” (1951) and worked in over 100 films in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films.

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  8. Zamindaris were established in the Madras Presidency by the government of the British East India Company starting from 1799 onwards. These settlements were established in order to delineate authority to landlords and thereby relieve the ryot from the control of middlemen who often exploited them.