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Coimbatore District was one of the districts of the erstwhile Madras Presidency of British India. It covered the areas of the present-day districts of Coimbatore, Erode and Tirupur and the Kollegal taluk of present-day Karnataka. It covered a total area of 20,400 square kilometres (7,860 sq mi) and was sub-divided into 10 taluks.
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. At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of southern India, including all of present-day Andhra Pradesh, almost all of Tamil Nadu and ...
According to Census 2011 information the location code or village code of Madampatti village is 644454. Madampatti village is located in Coimbatore South taluka of Coimbatore district in Tamil Nadu, India. It is situated 12km away from sub-district headquarter Coimbatore South (tehsildar office) and 12km away from district headquarter Coimbatore.
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The Mysore Wars, won by the British, helped expand the Madras Presidency in the second half of the 18th century. 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. Three years later Madras was divided further ...
Madras was established as Fort St. George in 1640. The presidency town of Bombay (shown here in a 1908 map) was established in 1684. The presidency town of Calcutta (shown here in a 1908 map) was established in 1690 as Fort William. Madras Presidency: established 1640.
Nov 22, 2018 · This discussion of a major city in British India has particular importance because it immediately precedes the 1857 Mutiny.— George P. Landow ] 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.
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. The province was certainly the most artificial of ...
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