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Born in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India, Nooyi earned her bachelor's degree from Madras Christian College and her MBA at the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta.

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"I would say it's like crack on steroids," Madras said.

Phoenix was born on August 803, 280 in Madras, Oregon.

We drove from Madras to Antelope, then on to the land.

Above, a map shows the hometowns of travelers visiting Madras, Ore.

Parents' use of marijuana "normalizes" it for the kids, Madras said.

Additionally, the Supreme Court issued a stay halting an order by the Madras High Court that barred Vedanta from reopening the Thoothukudi smelter until the Madras court hears a case challenging the NGT's verdict, said Sundaram.

Patrick Kennedy (D), and Dr. Bertha Madras, also makes several other recommendations.

After the meeting, 5003 street people flooded the bus depot in Madras.

"They were very discouraged," said Jackie Finley, the Trailways agent in Madras.

Marijuana has also been shown to affect kids' academic performance, Madras said.

They traveled from Carson City, California to Madras, Oregon to watch the eclipse.

He has been spotted wearing madras shirts, blazers, and an ever-present fedora.

"The fact that the commission is small is very positive," Dr. Madras said.

According to NASA, the eclipse will begin in Madras, Oregon, at 9:06 a.m.

On Tuesday, the disgraced dosa king turned himself in at the Madras High Court.

My last biennial stop was at India's oldest functioning library, Madras Literary Society (1812).

The brothers also introduced bold colors as well as Madras, candy stripe and tartan patterns.

And she wanted to watch "Madras," a movie by Pa Ranjith, a young Dalit filmmaker.

"We've been pumping away," a Safeway customer service representative at the Madras location told BuzzFeed News.

He said some companies had launched an appeal against the order at the Madras High Court.

Rosé at Thanksgiving would be like wearing white shoes and madras shorts — it's just not done.

Pictured in 1980, a smiling Basquiat sits with O'Brien, who wears a patterned madras sport coat.

The path stretches like a ribbon from the official NASA Solar Fest site in Madras, Ore.

Indeed, Tamil Nadu had been Madras State until he and his mentor had it renamed in 1969.

But in July, the Madras High Court issued a directive demanding the state government abolish the scheme.

I arrived in the town nearest the ranch, Madras, after five hours on the bus from Portland.

The couple met at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Chennai, India, from which each graduated.

Patrick Kennedy, and Dr. Bertha K. Madras, a Harvard Medical School professor who specializes in addiction biology.

One such structure is the Senate House, which currently functions as the administrative center of Madras University.

So if it's not the Madras print, it's a purple blazer with butterflies or a hot pink suit.

"I saw this guy with a plaid madras shirt on — he was so out of place," he recalled.

The commission never received any direct feedback from Trump after it submitted its final report, Madras told CNN.

Devapriam pursued graduate(Madras), and postgraduate(Madras), degrees from the Madras University,(Madras), Chennai and the Nagpur University, Nagpur.

Madras: The Government Press.Wilson, Lt Col WJ. (1882-88). History of the Madras Army. Madras: The Government Press.

Left to right, the Madras Horse Artillery, the Madras Light Cavalry, the Madras Rifle Corps, the Madras Pioneers, the Madras Native Infantry, and the Madras Foot Artillery, c. 1830 A painting showing a sowar (cavalry equivalent of sepoy), 6th Madras Light Cavalry circa 1845. The Madras Army of the Honourable East India Company came into being through the need to protect the Company's commercial interests. These were mostly untrained guards, with only some bearing arms.

There are also suggestions that it may have originated from the Portuguese phrase Mãe de Deus or Madre de Dios, which means "mother of God", due to Portuguese influence on the port city, specifically referring to a Church of St. Mary. In 1996, the Government of Tamil Nadu officially changed the name from Madras to Chennai. At that time many Indian cities underwent a change of name. However, the name Madras continues in occasional use for the city,Kalpana (2003) Madras: The Architectural Heritage Muthiah (2004), Madras Rediscovered Ali (2005), Madras on Rainy Days Ashok & Balasubramanian (2005) Chennai latté: a Madras brew Chandrasekhar, Government Museum (2006) The wild ferns of Madras city and its immediate neighbourhood Maracayyā (2008), Madras: Tracing the Growth of the City since 1639 Barlow (2009) The Story of Madras Muthiah (2011) A Madras Miscellany: A Decade of People, Places & Potpourri as well as for places named after the city such as University of Madras, IIT Madras, Madras Institute of Technology, Madras Medical College, Madras Veterinary College, Madras Christian College.

Madras was in the grips of a famine (the first famine since the start of British rule in Madras) when Greenhill became Agent in 1648.Madras Tercenternary Celebration Committee Commemoration VolumeBy Tercentenary Madras Staff, Madras Tercentenary Celebration Committee, Madras Tercentenary Celebration Committee, Published 1994, Asian Educational Services In September 1648, Greenhill arranged for rice to shipped aboard the ship Blessing from Persia. These fears were, however, short-lived as Madras had completely recovered from the famine by April 1649. Greenhill's tenure as Agent of Madras was marked by a scandal.

Congress formed the first ministry in the Madras Presidency. C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji) was the first Chief Minister. Madras Presidency was eventually reconstituted as Madras State. Following agitations for a separate Andhra state comprising the Telugu speaking regions of the Madras state by Potti Sriramalu, the Indian Government decided to partition the Madras state.

Madras High School is a public high school in Madras, Oregon, United States.

Muhammad Shahabuddin was born on 13 May 1895 at Ellore in Madras. He graduated in Arts from Madras Christian College and in Law from Madras Law College.

After Indian independence in 1947, Madras Presidency became Madras State, later renamed Tamil Nadu.

Bachelor Of Law (B.L), Madras Law College. M.L (International and Constitutional Law) (Madras University).

Walch 1976, pp. 157–160 The Madras Presidency became the Madras State in independent India.

The Government of Madras recorded it as the "most important event of the year".Report on the Administration of the Madras Presidency for the year 1927 – 28 Madras, 1929, p.xiii.

Madras possessed Tamil and Telugu cultures. In the early 1920s, Madras Presidency Chief Minister Panagal Raja said that the Cooum River should be the boundary between the Andhra and Tamil regions. In 1928 C. Sankaran Nair submitted a report to the central council explaining why Madras should not belong to the Tamils, but it was decided that the city would remain in the Tamil region. In 1953 Telugu speakers in the former Madras Presidency sought to make Madras the capital of Andhra Pradesh, adopting the slogan Madras manade ("Madras is ours").

Krishnamurthy acquired a B.A. (1940, at St. Joseph's college, affiliated to Madras University) and a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree (1942, Presidency College, Madras University) at the University of Madras. University of Madras awarded him with the Pulny Gold Medal. He also gained an M.A. (1947, University of Madras), an M.Sc. (1952, Presidency College, Madras University) and a Ph.D. (1957, University of Manchester, U.K.). At the age of 21 Krishnamurthy became a research scholar at the botany laboratory of the University of Madras and worked under the father of Indian algology, Prof.

He also served as the President of the Madras Olympic Association and the Madras Hockey Association.

Madras Engineer Group (MEG), informally known as the Madras Sappers, is an engineer group of the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army. The Madras Sappers draw their origin from the erstwhile Madras Presidency army of the British Raj. This regiment has its HQ in Bengaluru. The Madras Sappers are the oldest of the three groups of the Corps of Engineers.

A statue of him was placed at Mount Road, Madras. In 1927, it became the target of the Indian nationalists. The Madras Mahajana Sabha and the Madras provincial committee of the Indian National Congress passed a resolution demanding its removal. They started a series of demonstrations in Madras.

Madras Cricket in its formative years was dominated by the Europeans. The Madras Cricket Club was their exclusive preserve. No non- European was allowed to enter its portals. The Indians were peeved at this treatment. Madras comprised today’s states Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhrapradesh, and Kerela under Madras Presidency.

The board was formed when organized league cricket in the state began in Madras in 1932. It was formed after two rival bodies: Indian Cricket Federation and Madras Cricket Club merged becoming Madras Cricket Association (M.C.A.). The Madras Cricket Association (M.C.A.) was formally constituted on April 30, 1935.

Wilson, Lt Col WJ. (1882-88). History of the Madras Army. Madras: The Government Press. In 1890, the 32nd Madras Infantry was reconstituted with Punjabi Muslims and Sikhs, and permanently based in Burma.

In 1909, Krishnaswamy Iyer was elected to the Madras Legislative Council representing the Madras University. He was appointed a judge of the Madras High Court by the then Governor of Madras, Arthur Lawley, in 1909. The very same year, Krishnaswamy was awarded the Kaiser-I-Hind gold medal for his philanthropic activities. In 1911, he was appointed member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Madras.

N. Gopala Menon was a lawyer and an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress, also Member of the Legislative Assembly of Madras state. He served as the Speaker of the Madras Legislative Assembly from 1955 to 1956. Soon after the untimely death of his father (Ulanat Mootha Pannicker, a chieftain of the Zamorin of Calicut), Gopala Menon's mother with her six small children moved to Madras (the erstwhile Madras Presidency ). Gopala Menon did his schooling and higher studies in the Madras Christian College High School and graduate studies at Madras Christian College and the Law College, Madras.

Abbottabad: The Baloch Regimental Centre.Phythian-Adams, Lt Col EG. (1943). Madras Infantry 1748-1943. Madras: The Government Press.

He studied at Board High School, Nandalur, Government Arts College, Anantapur, Presidency College, Madras and Law College, Madras.

The Madras Railway was merged with Southern Mahratta Railway in 1908 to form Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway.

The Deccan Times was an English daily published from Madras, Madras Presidency starting in 1938 by Naganachiketh Chinnamuttevi.

Captain George Curtis left Portsmouth on 12 June 1790, reached the Cape on 24 August, Madras on 5 October, and Calcutta on 7 November. On 8 December Swallow passed Culpee (an anchorage near Calcutta), reached Madras on 14 December, Negaptam on 21 December, Madras again on 5 January 1791, Cuddalore on 2 February, Madras yet again on 4 February, Port Cornwallis on 25 February, Penang on 8 March, Madras on 26 March, Nagore on 27 April, Madras on 2 May, Masulipatam on 10 July, Madras on 17 July, Negapatam on 19 August, and Madras for the last time on this voyage on 25 August. Swallow reached St Helena on 29 November and arrived at Bristol on 25 January 1792.

Wilson, Lt Col WJ. (1882-88). History of the Madras Army. Madras: The Government Press. In 1890, the 33rd Madras Infantry was reconstituted with Punjabi Muslims, Pathans and Sikhs, and permanently based in Burma.

As soon as Uscan arrived in Madras, the Nawab of the Carnatic visited Madras and Uscan lavished hospitality upon him. A pleased Nawab offered gifts and titles and sole monopoly of trade in Madras.

Chandralekha was born on 14 August 1947 at Dindigul in the then Madras Presidency. She had her education in Madras and mastered in economics from Presidency College, Madras before joining the Indian Administrative Service.

St Andrew's Kirk, Madras Pentland served as the Governor of Madras from 1912 to 1919. For the most part of his tenure as Governor of Madras, British India was embroiled in the First World War.

Muthiah Mudaliar was born in Kumbakonam, Madras Presidency in 1883. Muthiah graduated from Government College, Kumbakonam and Law College, Madras and practised as a lawyer at the Madras High Court before joining the Justice Party.

Tiruchendurai Vaidyanatha Seshagiri Iyer (1860–1926) was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as a judge of the Madras High Court and represented the University of Madras in the Madras Legislative Council. Seshagiri Iyer was born in 1860 in a village in Tiruchirapalli district. He had his early education in his village and studied law in Madras. He served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council.

Sayeed was born in Mylapore, Madras on 20 February 1900 in a wealthy family of Nawayath lineage. His father was a powerful landlord in the Madras Presidency. Sayeed graduated from the Madras Christian College and studied law at the Madras Law College, completing his graduation and enrolling as an advocate in 1925.

Shivashanmugam was born in the city of Madras on 24 February 1901 to Jagannathan, a steward. He had his schooling in Madras and graduated from Loyola College. He completed his master's in private from Madras University.

J Battery was originally raised in India on 4 April 1805 as The Troop of Madras Horse Artillery, part of the Madras Army of the Honourable East India Company. With the formation of another unit on 6 January 1806 (the 2nd Half Squadron, Madras Horse Artillery), it was renamed as the 1st Half Squadron, Madras Horse Artillery and 1st Troop, Madras Horse Artillery with the formation of a third troop (later M Battery, Royal Horse Artillery) on 25 January 1809. By 5 August 1825, the Madras Horse Artillery had grown to 8 batteries and so was reorganized as two brigades; the battery was redesignated as A Troop, 1st Brigade, Madras Horse Artillery. The last redesignation under the Madras Army (as A Troop, Madras Horse Artillery) came on 4 January 1831 as the brigade system was discontinued and the Madras Horse Artillery shrank to 6 batteries in a single sequence (A to F Troops).

According to this act, on 26 January 1950, Madras Province was formed as Madras State by the Government of India.

After independence of India in 1947, Madras Presidency became Madras State. Madras State had multilingual speakers which included Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu speakers. In 1952, Potti Sreeramulu demanded a separate state for Telugu speaking people with Madras as its capital. He went on hunger strike with his demand, and later died during his fasts.

Premier Rajagopalachari at a rally in Ootacamund, 1939. The Indian National Congress first came to power in the Madras Presidency (also called Madras Province by the British), following the Madras elections of 1937. Except for a six-year period when Madras was under the governor's direct rule, the Congress administered the presidency until India became independent on 15 August 1947.Encyclopedia of Political Parties, p 199 At the age of 59, Rajagopalachari won the Madras University seat and entered the Assembly as the first Premier of the Madras Presidency from the Congress party.

Marking the initial days of the railways in the Indian Subcontinent, the Madras Railway Company began to network South India in 1856. The first station was built at Royapuram, which remained the main station at that time. Expansion of the Madras Railways network, particularly the completion of the Madras–Vyasarpadi line, called for a second station in Madras, resulting in Madras Central coming into being. Madras Central was built in 1873 at Parktown as a second terminus to decongest the Royapuram harbour station, which was being utilised for port movements.

The station gained prominence after the beach line was extended further south in the same year, and Royapuram was no longer a terminus for Madras. All trains were then terminated at Madras Central instead. The Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Company was formed in 1908 and took over the Central station from the Madras Railway Company. The station's position was further strengthened after the construction of the headquarters of the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway (erstwhile Madras Railway and now known as the Southern Railway) adjacent to it in 1922.

Anderson became an East India Company naval surgeon in 1759, and moved to the Madras Presidency in 1765. He was made surgeon-general of Madras in 1781, and ultimately physician-general. He died at Madras and a monument to him by Chantrey is installed at St George's Cathedral in Madras. Interested in medicinal plants and horticulture, he set up a botanical garden in Madras where Anderson introduced mulberry trees, and experimented with making silk.

Captain George Curtis left the Downs on 18 October 1792 for Bengal, Madras, and Bombay. She arrived at Calcutta on 10 March, Madras on 27 April, Madras, and Bombay on 16 June. She left Bombay on 7 August and reached Anjengo on 15 August, and Madras 24 August. She left Madras on 10 October, reached st Helena on 15 December, and arrived at Torbay on 4 February 1794, and the Downs on 16 February.

Kuddus Badsha Sahib had served as the Vice-Consul at the Turkish Consulate in Madras, trustee of the Madras Port Trust, Vice-President of the South Indian Chamber of Commerce, Vice- President of the South Indian Athlectics Association and commissioner of the Corporation of Madras. He also served as the Vice President of the Madras Province Muslims League and was a member of the Madras Legislative Council from December 1909 to December 1912.

Sundaram Ayyar Venkateswaran CIE (2 January 1901 - June 1968) was a civil servant of the Indian Civil Service who served as Census Commissioner of Madras State during the 1951 census (the first Indian to hold the post) and the Chief Election Commissioner of Madras Presidency (later Madras State) from 26 June 1948 to 22 August 1952. He also served as Commissioner of Land Revenue for Madras State and Vice-President of the Madras Music Academy.

There were Chambers of Commerce in Madras, Cochin and Cocanada.Hunter 1908, p. 298 These chambers each nominated a member to the Madras Legislative Council. Cotton-ginning and weaving were two of the main industries in the Madras Presidency.

Dr. S Natarajan graduated from the Madras Medical College, Madras, in 1980. He did his Diploma in Ophthalmology (D.O) at University of Madras in 1984 and Fellowship in Retina and Vitreous Surgery (F.R.V.S) at Sankara Nethralaya in 1985.

1807/8 Madras and Bengal. Captain Leigh sailed from Portsmouth on 17 November 1807, bound for Madras and Bengal. She reached Calcutta on 13 April 1808. She was at Kedgeree on 19 December, and Madras on 29 December.

Ramanathan was born on 30 December 1895 in Kodaivillagam, near Mayiladuthurai in Tanjore District, Madras Presidency, British India (present day Mayiladuthurai district, Tamil Nadu, India). He was educated at Pachaiyappa's College, Madras Christian College and Madras Law College.

India won the three matches against Madras Indians, All Madras and Bangalore without any problem. Hussain played in all these matches.

The efforts were unsuccessful. They popularized the slogan 'Madrasu Manade'(మద్రాసు మనదే, Madras is ours). Tamils opposed the inclusion of Madras.

Kongu Nadu and Chola Nadu is demarcated by the Karaipottanar river.Hemingway, F. R. Trichinopoly. Madras District Gazetteers. Government Press, Madras, 1907.

Natesa Mudaliar was born in Triplicane, Madras in 1875. He had his early schooling in Madras and graduated in arts from the University of Madras. Natesan worked as a lecturer in Pithapuram Maharaja College and as an interpreter in the Gordon Woodrof Company. He graduated in medicine from Madras Medical College and practised as a doctor.

Goschen was appointed Governor of Madras in 1924 and he arrived at Madras in May 1924 to take charge. Goschen was awarded the GCSI in March 1924. The Madras Presidency Radio Club started a radio transmission service in Madras, the first in the city, in 1924, under Goschen's patronage. This service lasted from 1924 to 1927.

Macfadyen initially operated from Madras and achieved considerable success. He was nominated to the Madras Legislative Council for the terms 1874–75 and 1875–76. He was also elected as the President of the Madras Chamber of Commerce in 1875. In 1876, Macfadyen was appointed to the newly established executive committee of management of the Madras School of Arts.

The Madras University Act of 1923 expanded the administrative body of the University of Madras and made it more representative. In 1920 the Madras Corporation introduced the Mid-day Meal Scheme with the approval of the legislative council. It was a breakfast scheme in a corporation school at Thousand Lights, Madras. Later it expanded to four more schools.

Ranganatha Mudaliar was born on 29 June 1879, in a Mudaliar family of Madras Presidency. Ranganatha Mudaliar had his schooling in Madras and graduated from Madras Christian College and Madras Law College. Mudaliar joined government service in 1901 and served as Deputy Collector of Bellary. Later, he was influenced by theosophy and became a follower of Annie Besant.

Madras Presidency Association was a faction within the Indian National Congress which existed before indian independence. While Justice Party championed the cause of non-Brahmins in Madras presidency, non-Brahmins within the Congress party founded Madras Presidency Association (MPA).

Captain Peter Grant sailed from The Downs on 8 April 1815, bound for Madras and Bengal. She reached Madras on 20 July, arrived at Bengal, and by December was again at Madras. Her voyage ended on 5 July 1816.

Feeder schools include Lee Middle School, Madras Middle School and Arnall Middle School. Madras also feeds into the nearby Newnan High School.

Madras: Lawrence Asylum Press, 1878 ethnographies,Thurston, Edgar Castes and Tribes of Southern India. 6 vols. Volume 4. Madras: Government Press, p.

Greenhill died in Madras of excessive drinking on 4 January 1658. His is the oldest English tombstone yet discovered in Madras city.

With the advent of Indian independence on 15 August 1947, the Presidency became the Madras Province. Madras was later admitted as Madras State, a state of the Indian Union at the inauguration of the Republic of India on 26 January 1950.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore/Madras and Myliapor () is an archdiocese based in the city of Madras (now Chennai), in India. It took also the name of the ancient diocese of Mylapore, now a suburb of Chennai.

Shephard entered the India service as a barrister at the India Office in 1867. He was appointed Professor of law at the Presidency College, Madras in October 1873 and in 1881, was made a fellow of the Madras University. In March 1885, he was appointed Advocate General of the Madras Presidency and thereby a member of the Madras Legislative Council. In January 1888, he was appointed officiating judge of the Madras High Court and confirmed in July 1889.

In 1847, he moved to Madras (Chennai) due to family tensions and economic hardship, having been disinherited by his father. While in Madras, he stayed in the Black Town neighbourhood, and began working as an "usher" at the Madras Male Orphan Asylum. Four years later, in 1851, he became a Second Tutor in the Madras University High School. He edited and assisted in editing the periodicals Madras Circulator and General Chronicle, Athenaeum, Spectator and Hindoo Chronicle.

EIC voyage #7 (1816-1817): Madras and China. Captain Barnard sailed from the Downs on 26 February 1816, bound for Madras and China.

In 1890, Mudaliar was appointed as the official Tamil translator to the Madras government. Two years later, he was appointed Sheriff of Madras.

In 1926, he was elected to the Madras Legislative Council.Manickavelu served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council from 1926 to 1937.

SMR was later merged with Madras Railway to form the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway. The merger took place on 1 January 1908.

The Government of India Act 1935 abolished dyarchy and created a bicameral legislature in the Madras Presidency. The Legislative Assembly became the Lower House of the Presidency. After the Republic of India was established in 1950, the Madras Presidency became the Madras State and the bicameral setup continued. The Madras State's assembly strength was 375 and the first assembly was constituted in 1952.

Three Portuguese Jews were nominated to be aldermen of Madras Corporation. Three - Bartolomeo Rodrigues, Domingo do Porto and Alvaro da Fonseca - also founded the largest trading house in Madras. The large tomb of Rodrigues, who died in Madras in 1692, became a landmark in Peddanaickenpet, but was later destroyed. Samuel de Castro came to Madras from Curaçao and Salomon Franco came from Leghorn.

The Madras Day festival has registered a steady increase in popularity year after year. The 2014 and 2015 editions lasted through August and extended into September as well, prompting demands to rename Madras Day as Madras Week, or even Madras Month. There has been a contention that the deed of purchase was actually dated 22 July 1639 and not 22 August.

Captain John Campbell acquired a letter of marque on 29 May 1795. He sailed from Portsmouth on 9 July 1795, bound for Madras and Bengal. Henry Dundas was at Rio de Janeiro on 6 September, reached Madras on 16 December, and Karakaul 23 December, before returning to Madras on 14 January 1796. She arrived at Madras - 24 Feb Kedgeree on 24 February.

After re-organisation of the states in 1957, several state level commissions were constituted. The Madras Service Commission became the Madras Public Service Commission with headquarters at Madras in the year 1957. During 1970, when the name of the state was changed to Tamil Nadu, the Madras Public Service Commission was renamed as the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC).

Anandacharlu was born in the village of Kattamanchi in Chittoor district, Madras Presidency in a Brahmin family. He moved to Madras city at an early age and became an apprentice to a leading Madras advocate called Kayali Venkatapathi. His practise as a full lawyer began in 1869 when he became a member of the Chamber of the Madras High Court.

White served as the Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency and ex-officio member of the Madras Legislative Council from 1898 to 1899. He resigned in 1899 following his appointment as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court. In 1914, White was appointed to the Council of India. He also served as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Madras.

Captain Lowis sailed from The Downs on 14 January 1793, this time bound for Madras and Bengal. Woodcot reached Madras on 30 May and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 29 June. She returned to Madras on 7 September, and was back at Diamond Harbour on 2 October. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 22 December and Madras on 30 January 1794.

In the years after the 1946 election, factionalism was common place in the Congress party in Madras. During 1946–51, three different Congress chief ministers headed the Madras government. T. Prakasam was the Chief Minister of Madras presidency immediately after the 1946 election. As a Telugu speaker, he was often at odds with the Madras Provincial Congress Committee president K. Kamaraj.

"The Madras Song" produced by the Murugappa Group is a tribute to the city of Madras and was launched in commemoration of its 375th year which was celebrated in August 2014 . There was a sequel to this song by Opus g7 for The Hindu group called Madras Beats in 2016 launched on the eve of 377th birthday celebrations of the Madras Day.

At the time of Naidu's birth, Chittoor was in the Madras Presidency (this became the Madras Province shortly thereafter and later the Madras State), and is now in the state of Andhra Pradesh which was newly formed nine years after Naidu was born.

In 1947, both she and Nageswar Rao Chendur went to Madras. Malathi received her Secondary School Leaving Certificate in Madras. At the end of 1947 Malathi married Nageswar Rao Chendur. Their marriage was reported as the first registered marriage after independence in Madras.

He also served as Director of a Madras Co-operative Bank, Senator of Madras University and elected to the Madras Municipal Council. In 1927, British government conferred him with the title of "Rao Saheb" for his contribution towards depressed classes of Tamil Nadu.

Papers presented at the International Synposium on Taxonomy of Algae held at the Cenre of Advanced Study in Botany University of Madras, December 9–16, 1974. (Desikachary, T.V. & Raja Rao, V.N Eds), pp. 223–248. Madras: University of Madras. and Eastern Ghats.

C. Basudev was an Indian labour unionist who served as member of the Madras Legislative Council from 1930 to 1937 and mayor of Madras.

Soon after his graduation, Ramalingam began to practice at the Madras High Court and served as the president of the Bar Council of Madras.

The Presidency was divided into three postal divisions: Madras North up to Ganjam, Madras South-West to Anjengo (erstwhile Travancore) and Madras West, up to Vellore. In the same year, a link with Bombay was established then in 1837, the Madras, Bombay and Calcutta mail services were integrated to form the All- India Service. On 1 October 1854, the first stamps were issued by the Imperial Postal Service. The General Post Office (GPO), Madras, was established by Sir Archibald Campbell in 1786.

Born in Reddypalayam in 1913, Krishnaswami Reddy was educated at the St. Columbus High School, Chingleput and the Madras Christian College. Upon graduating in law from the Madras Law College, Krishnaswami Reddy enrolled as an advocate of the Madras High Court on 11 December 1939.

The siege of Madras in 1746 for Joseph Francois Dupleix troops and ships of La Bourdonnais. The city surrendered in September 1746. Madras was returned to England in 1748 to restore peace. On 9 September the Governor of Madras, Nicholas Morse sued for peace.

Madras War Cemetery Madras War Cemetery is located in Nandambakkam, Chennai (formerly Madras), Tamil Nadu, India. It was created to receive Second World War graves from civil and cantonment cemeteries in the south and east of India where their permanent maintenance could not be assured.

St. Mary's Church, Madras Charles William Edgerton Cotton CSI CIE (14 August 1874 – 6 September 1931) was a British civil servant of the Indian civil service who served as Chief Secretary of Madras and the Agent of the Governor- General for the Madras States.

In: Taxonomy of Algae. Papers presented at the International Symposium on Taxonomy of Algae held at the Centre of Advanced Study in Botany University of Madras, December 9–16, 1974. Edited by: T.V. Desikachary, and V.N. Raja Rao. University of Madras, Madras. pp. 223–248.

This is widely regarded at the founding event of the formation of the Chennai (Madras) Metropolis and is to the day celebrated as Madras Day.

Parishes of Madras Diocese were formerly consisted of the present Calcutta and Madras dioceses with H.G. Dr. Stephanos Mar Theodosius as the first Diocesan Metropolitan.

Nugent Grant was a legendary Madras lawyer of British origin who served in the Madras High Court. He served as the Public Prosecutor for the government and was the President of the Madras Bar Association in 1929. Nugent Grant was the chief prosecuting attorney in the famous 1924 Imperial Bank Case which was tried in the High Court of Judicature at Madras, tried before Mr Justice Beasley.

He personally supervised the famine-relief measures at Ganjam and reorganised the sanitary administration of Madras city. He also improved and extended the east coast railway line connecting Madras with Calcutta. The Madras Mail, in its 4 December 1890 issue, comments that his administration was "a bright epoch in the annals of Madras". He resigned as governor on 8 November 1890 and returned to Great Britain.

He was a nephew of politician T. A. Ramalingam Chettiar. Avinashilingam had his early education at Tiruppur, Coimbatore and Madras and graduated in law from Madras Law College of the University of Madras. He joined the Indian Independence Movement and participated in Civil Disobedience and the Quit India Movement. He also served as a member of the Imperial Legislative Council and later, education minister of Madras.

Reddy Naidu was a native of Draksharama in the Madras Presidency and belonged to a prominent Telaga Kapu family. His mother tongue was Telugu. He had a varied education, attending the Government Arts College in Rajahmundry, the Madras Christian College, the Madras Law College and Madras University. Before being called to the bar in 1900, he was a Professor of Physics at the Government Arts College, Rajahmundry .

Chennai, originally known as "Madras", was located in the province of Tondaimandalam, an area lying between Penna River of Nellore and the Ponnaiyar river of Cuddalore. The capital of the province was Kancheepuram. The name Madras was Derived from Madrasan a fisherman head who lived in coastal area of Madras. The Original Name of Madras Is Puliyur kottam which is 2000 year old Tamil ancient name.

In 1827, Lushington was appointed Governor of Madras in succession to Thomas Munro, 1st Baronet. But as Munro fell ill and died even before his tenure had ended, Henry Sullivan Graeme acted as the governor in interim till Lushington's arrival in Madras. Lushington served as Governor of Madras from 1827 to 1832. The Madras Club was started in 1832 during Lushington's tenure as governor.

Ashok Leyland and Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) signed a memorandum of understanding, on 19 August 2017, for Ashok Leyland to sponsor the Centre of Battery Engineering (CoBE) at IIT Madras. As part of the agreement Ashok Leyland has partnered with IIT Madras to carry out research and development (R&D;) activities for strengthening battery engineering and related sub-parts, especially for electric vehicles.

Rangaiah Naidu was one of the many Indian leaders who demanded self-rule and greater representation for Indians in the government. When the Madras Mahajana Sabha (Madras native association, the first Indian political organization in Madras presidency) was founded in 1884, Rangaiah Naidu was elected as its first President. He was a member of the Madras Legislative Council from 1892 to 1899. Rangaiah Naidu also participated in the first session of the Indian National Congress held in Bombay in December 1885 representing Madras city.

The Bank of Madras undertook all the normal activities that are common to a commercial bank. The Bank of Madras, in the absence of any central banking authority during that time, also conducted certain functions that are ordinarily a preserve of a central bank. It also issued banknotes in the Madras Presidency. These included managing the banking business of the Presidency of Madras and offices of the colonial government of India located in South India, and managing the Public Debt Office of the Government of Madras.

Gabriel Stokes acted as the Governor of Madras from 15February 1906 to 28March 1906. During his tenure, the Asian Petroleum Company began its work in Madras.

The first Legislative Assembly of Madras state was constituted in May 1952. This was following the first election held in Madras state after the Indian Independence.

In Kalinga the Chola forces defeated Indraratha the ruler of the Somavamsi Dynasty. Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta (2000) [1935]. The Cōlas. Madras: University of Madras. p.

Ranjan was born Ramanarayana Venkataramana Sarma in Mylapore, Madras in 1918. His family hailed from the town of Srirangam. Ranjan had his schooling in Madras and received an M. Lit degree from Madras University. While studying in college, he participated in a number of stage plays.

He was appointed a judge of the Court of Small Causes in 1871. The very next year, he was made Fellow of Madras University. In 1877, the Madras Government took the controversial decision to appoint him as the first Indian judge of the High Court of Madras.

Rhode sailed from Plymouth on 26 February 1804 for Madras and Bengal. She reached Madeira on 29 March, and Madras on 27 July. She arrived at Calcutta on 3 September. Homeward bound she passed Kedgeree on 11 December and arrived at Madras on 12 February 1805.

Between 1882 and 1888, the Madras Secular Society published a magazine called The Thinker (Tattuvavivesini in Tamil) from Madras. The magazine carried articles written by anonymous writers and republished articles from the journal of the London Secular Society, which the Madras Secular Society considered itself affiliated to.

Captain Barrow sailed from The Downs on 5 May 1802, bound for Madras. Britannia reached Madras on 1 September, left on 20 October, and four days later returned to Madras. She reached St Helena on 15 January 1803 and arrived at The Downs on 22 March.

C. Hayavadana Rao, Arundel, Sir Arundel Tagg, from The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915). Retrieved 12 August 2016. In 1875, he was appointed Private Secretary to the Acting Governor of Madras. In 1880 he became President of the Madras Municipal Commission and a Fellow of Madras University.

De Paiva organized the Jews into the semblance of a community and established Madras Jewish community. He built the Second Madras Synagogue and Jewish Cemetery Chennai, Peddanaickenpet.

Since, Padroado diocese of Mylpaore was very close to this English settlement, Ephrem de Nevers refused to their appeal but seeing the spiritual desolation of the people accepted to found the first Christian mission in Madras,Norbert de Bar-le-Duc, Memoires utiles et necessaires, tristes et consolans, sur les missions des Indes Orientales, de l'Imprimerie d' Antoine Rossi, Paris, 1742, p. 93-94 (This Capuchin mission of Madras was elevated to archdiocese of Madras in 1886 and later amalgamated into Mylapore diocese as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore in 1952). Thus, he was credited to be the first Christian missionary of Madras, he built the first church of Madras dedicated to St. Andrew the apostle in Fort St. George and in the same year 1642, Pope Urban VIII raised this Capuchin mission into Prefecture apostolic and Father Ephrem de Nevers was appointed the first Prefect Apostolic of Madras.Mgr. P. Thomas, 'The Catholic Mission in Madras', The Madras Tercentenary Commemoration Volume, Asian Educational Services, Madras,Jan 1,1994, p. 375-383.

Madras Synagogue Seal The Madras Synagogue is the only Synagogue in Tamil Nadu, it was built by Jacques (Jaime) de Paiva (Pavia) a Paradesi Jew of Madras. Madras Synagogue was also known as the Esnoga, or Snoge, Esnoga is synagogue in Ladino, the traditional Judaeo-Spanish language of Sephardic Jews. Jacques (Jaime) de Paiva (Pavia) was originally from Amsterdam Sephardic community. Jacques (Jaime) de Paiva (Pavia) came to Madras for trading in Golconda diamonds, precious stones and corals, he developed very good relations with the rulers of Golkonda and maintained trade connections to Europe.

On 17 July 1805 Low was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 1st Madras Native Infantry. For the part taken by six of its companies in Vellore mutiny the regiment was disbanded in January 1807; Low became an officer in the reformed 24th Madras Infantry. In 1816 the 24th was renumbered as the 1st Madras Infantry, in recognition of its conduct at the battle of Sitabuldi. Low became captain in the regiment in 1820, major 17th Madras infantry (late 2nd battalion 24th) in 1828, and lieutenant-colonel 19th Madras infantry in 1834.

It was left largely to the discretion of provincial governments to recruit and exercise control over their services, as deemed proper. As a result of the discretionary powers left to provincial Government, the Government of Madras and Punjab proposed to set up their own public service commissions. Madras Presidency was the first province in India to establish their own service commission when the Madras Service Commission was established under an Act of the Madras Legislature in 1929. The Madras Service Commission started with three members, including the Chairman.

An early photograph of club Sporting sailing in the area first started in Ennore, situated north of Madras, in the early 1900s. Sir Francis Spring, the first Chairman of the Madras Port Trust, founded the Royal Madras Yacht Club in 1911. The first of the Inter-Club Regattas in India was held in 1924 between the Royal Colombo Yacht Club and the RMYC in Madras. It was accorded its 'Royal' status by the Emperor of India, George V, and the name was changed to The Royal Madras Yacht Club on 8 June 1933.

In 1880, Cornish was promoted to Surgeon-General—the head of medical services in the Madras Presidency. Soon, he was also appointed Honorary Physician to Queen Victoria and nominated to the Legislative Council of the Madras presidency. He also compiled and edited the 1881 Census for the Madras Presidency. His last major effort in India was in the framing of the Act for Local Self-Government in the Madras Presidency.

Chetty was born to a Devanga family in Egathur, Madras Presidency on 27 April 1852. He did his schooling in Chennai and graduated in law from Presidency College, Madras. On graduation, he entered public life and served as a member of the Corporation of Madras from 1882 to 1922. He also served terms as the President of the Corporation of Madras, and then as a Councillor till 1922.

Ari Gowder was educated at the Madras Christian College before entering politics. He became the first person to be elected to the Madras Legislative Council. He served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council from 1923 to 1926 and from 1930 to 1934 and was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Madras state in the 1940s and 1950s. He also served a President of the Nilgiris District Board.

They also built roads, bridges, fortifications, wells, water-supply and fought as infantry when needed. Since this group was constituted by the Madras Presidency, and formed part of the Madras Army, they were called the Madras Sappers. Likewise in 1803 and again in 1824, the Bengal Sappers and Bombay Sappers were formed in the other presidencies. The Madras Sappers recruited and trained small tough and wiry men from South India.

Elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1946 as a Congress representative, Reddy became secretary of the Congress' legislature party. He was also a Member of the Indian Constituent Assembly from Madras. From April 1949 to April 1951, he was the Minister for Prohibition, Housing and Forests of the Madras State. Reddy lost the 1951 election to the Madras Legislative Assembly to the Communist leader Tarimela Nagi Reddy.

In 1872–73, a bimonthly sea-mail service began between Madras and Rangoon. This was followed by the commencement of a fortnightly sea-mail service between Madras and ports on the eastern coast. Madras was linked to the rest of the world through telegraphs in 1853 and a civilian telegraph service was introduced on 1 February 1855. Soon afterwards, telegraph lines linked Madras and Ootacamund with other cities in India.

Lily hailed from Kottayam and grew up in Trivandrum. She had joined Madras High Court in 1955, under which she studied the LLM course which was completed in 1959. Thomas belongs to the first generation of women lawyers in India and she was the first woman to complete the LLM course from Madras University. After obtaining a law degree from Madras University, she started her practice in the Madras High Court.

Sivaraj was born to Namsivayam, an accounts officer, on 29 September 1892 in the town of Cuddapah in the then Madras Presidency. His ancestors were from the town of Poonamallee near Madras. Sivaraj passed his matriculation in 1907 and graduated in arts from Presidency College, Madras in 1911. In 1915 he graduated as a lawyer from the Madras Law College and practised as a junior under Sir C. P. Ramaswamy Iyer.

Sreeramulu died during a fatal fast, which increased more sympathy towards Andhra's demand. 'Madras Manade ' movement attained more momentum. Nehru appointed Vansu, a Rajasthan-based justice to look into the Madras issue. Rajaji pressured Nehru saying if Madras was given to Andhra, he will resign from his post.

The Madras Presidency in 1913 At the time of Independence, Madras Presidency in India was made up of 26 districts, of which 12 districts were found in the present-day Tamil Nadu, namely, Chingleput, Coimbatore, Nilgiris, North Arcot, Madras, Madura, Ramnad, Salem, South Arcot, Tanjore, Tinnevely, and Trichinopoly.

The station is named after Fort St. George, which it serves. Madras Dental College is located opposite the station, adjoining Madras Medical College Men's Hotel and Nursing College. The Madras Medical College is a few hundred metres away. The station consists of 260 sq m of open parking area.

He arrived at Madras on 23 May 1861 and was sworn in on 24 May 1861. He served as the first Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1861 to 1871. He also served as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Madras from 1862 to 1871.

Madras curry or Madras sauce is a fairly hot curry sauce (with the exception of seafood madras curries, which are made to a slightly different recipe), red in colour and with heavy use of chili powder. Yoghurt is often used to take away some or all of the heat.

Captain Henry Pendares (or Pindarves) Tremenheere acquired a letter of marque on 13 March 1804. He sailed from Portsmouth on 8 May, bound for Madras and Bengal. Asia reached Madras on 3 September and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 26 September. She was at Madras on 26 December.

Office of The Mail in Anna Salai, Chennai The Mail, known as The Madras Mail till 1928, was an English-language daily evening newspaper published in the Madras Presidency (later Madras State, and then, Tamil Nadu) from 1868 to 1981. It is the first evening newspaper in India.

Dr.Habibullah Baig was an Indian politician who served as member of the Madras Legislative Assembly and mayor of Madras during 1967-68. He belonged to the Muslim League.

The British losses during the campaign were 93 killed and 200 wounded.Phythian-Adams, Lt Col EG. (1943). Madras Infantry 1748-1943. Madras: The Government Press. p. 64-5.

Usman served as the acting Governor of Madras from 16 May 1934 to 16 August 1934. He was the first Indian to act as the Governor of Madras.

Sachivottama Sir Chetput Pattabhiraman Ramaswami Iyer, KCSI, KCIE (12 November 1879 – 26 September 1966), popularly known as Sir C. P., was an Indian lawyer, administrator and politician who served as the Advocate-General of Madras Presidency from 1920 to 1923, Law member of the Executive council of the Governor of Madras from 1923 to 1928, Law member of the Executive Council of the Viceroy of India from 1931 to 1936 and the Diwan of Travancore from 1936 to 1947. Ramaswami Iyer was born in 1879 in Madras city and studied at Wesley College High School and Presidency College, Madras before qualifying as a lawyer from the Madras Law College. He practised as a lawyer in Madras and succeeded S. Srinivasa Iyengar as the Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency. He subsequently served as the Law member of the Governor of Madras and of the Viceroy of India before being appointed Diwan of Travancore in 1936.

Dr Hugh Cleghorn, founder of Madras Forest Department, 1856 Dietrich Brandis, reorganised Madras Forestry Department in 1882 H A Gass, Conservator of Forests about 1906 Teak tree, 1870 by Douglas Hamilton Lord Ripon, Viceroy of India, 1880-1884 In 1855 Dr H F Cleghorn (pictured) was asked to organise the Madras Forest Department and started systematic forest conservancy in India. On 19 December 1856 he was appointed Conservator of Forests in Madras Presidency. His persistent campaigning with the Government resulted in the banning of shifting cultivation in the Madras Presidency in 1860. Cleghorn organised the new Madras Forestry Department with such energy and success that he was asked to extend his operations into the Punjab.

In April 1944, the Madras and South Mahratta Railway Company was taken over by the Madras Government. In 1947, there were of railway in the Presidency, in addition to of district board lines. Madras was well-connected with other Indian cities like Bombay and Calcutta and with Ceylon.Christophers 1927, p.

EIC voyage #5 (1792-1793): Captain Bartlett sailed from the Downs on 6 April 1792, bound for Madras and Bengal. Contractor reached Madras on 5 August and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 31 August. Homeward bound, she was at Cox's Island on 20 December and Madras again on 15 January 1793.

Captain Walter Carruthers acquired a letter of marque on 21 June 1797. He sailed from Torbay on 22 September, bound for Madras and Bengal. Henry Dundas reached Madras on 3 February 1798, and Kedgeree on 10 March. She was at Saugor on 28 April and Madras again on 28 May.

The two coaches, consisting of a composite First and Second class coach and a composite Third class and Luggage coach, made their way to Madras attached to the South Indian Railway's Mangalore-Madras mail train. Between Madras and Itarsi sectional coaches to Itarsi, Bezwada (now Vijayawada) and Hyderabad were operated.

Vadakkancheri Ramabhagavadhar was a close friend of Menon. He had settled down in Madras. He would invite Menon and Leela to Madras to learn music whenever he visited Ernakulam. The headmistress of the school where Leela was studying advised her father to take her to Madras for further training in music.

Rajagopalachari was born in Madras and educated at Presidency College and Madras Law College. He joined the Judicial Department Indian Civil Service on 3 May 1886 and was appointed deputy collector in December 1887. From 2 May 1890 to December 1896, he served as assistant collector and magistrate in Madras Province.

Natesan did not participate in the first general elections in Madras Presidency held in 1920. However, in the 1923 assembly elections, Natesan was elected to the Madras Legislative Council.

Seshagiri Iyer represented the University of Madras in the Madras Legislative Council from 1921 until his death in 1926. He presided over a number of conferences during this time.

Vallam Sundar (born 30 March 1953) is an Indian professor of Coastal Engineering at the Department of Ocean Engineering of Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), Chennai, India.

Narayanaswami Chetty was born into the Gopathi balija family. He was the son of Gopathy Mahadeva Chetty. He was educated in Madras. He was elected President of Madras Corporation.

Andrews was in the East India Company, in the Madras Civil Service, from 1778, and became Collector of Trinchinopoli. He was Senior Judge of Appeal, in the Madras Presidency.

Egmore, in 1796, was the site of the Military Male Orphan Asylum near Madras. This asylum was headed by Andrew Bell, who invented the Madras System for schooling there.

They played first-class matches from 1892 to 1948. There was also a European team composed of European cricketers from Madras Presidency who played in the Madras Presidency Matches.

Norton moved with his father to India in 1842 and commenced a legal practice in Madras. He was appointed Government Pleader in 1845 and served from 1845 to 1862. In 1863 he was appointed Advocate-General of Madras, serving from 1863 until his retirement in 1871. Norton was appointed Sheriff of Madras in 1843 and served from 1843 to 1845, he also served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council from 1862 to 1868.

He was appreciated by the then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on 3 March 1963 when The latter saw him giving a musical discourse on the life story of Swami Vivekananda during Swami Vivekananda's Centenary Celebrations. In all school functions, he used to do mimicry. He did his pre- university course from Vaishnava College, Madras. He did BSc in Geology from the Presidency College, Madras and then Law from Madras Law College, Madras.

After successfully practicing law for nearly twenty years, Sivaswami Iyer entered politics. being appointed to the Governor's of Madras' Legislative Council as an additional member in charge of making rules and regulations in 1904.India Office List, 1903 After this he was appointed Advocate-General of Madras Presidency. Sivaswami Iyer was elected to the senate of the Madras University in 1898 and served as Vice Chancellor of the Madras University from 1916 to 1918.

After five months of language training, Rhenius was asked to come back to Madras, as CMS had decided to engage him in their own mission called Mission in Madras, instead of helping the Danish Mission at Tharangambadi. The Madras Governor gave permission to work in the Black Town of Madras. They rented a house belonging to a Hindu. This facilitated to study the Hindu scriptures and he visited the Kanchipuram temple as well.

Ma.Po.Si. submitted historical, literature facts to Vansu explaining the reason why he claims Thiruthani, Thirupathi, Madras to be grouped within Tamil Nadu. In between Nehru got an opportunity to read the famous speech Ma.Po.Si. rendered in Madras Corporation. Two thousand telegrams were sent to Nehru from Tamil Nadu, emphasizing the need for Madras within Tamil Nadu. Finally Madras was attached to Tamil Nadu by the great efforts of Ma.Po.Si.But Tirupati only left.

Alexander began his career in India when he arrived at Fort St George, Madras, in 1752, at the age of twenty-three, and became a factor there. He was also employed under the Accountant for Madras, and in 1754 became Sub-Accountant and Book-Keeper of Deposits from the Mayor's Courts. He was Sheriff of Madras in 1754 and again in 1757. In the latter year he became Junior Merchant at Madras.

Of the wounded, four were of the 39th Regiment, three of the Madras Regiment, four of the Madras Artillery, two of the Bengal European Regiment, one of the Bengal Artillery and one of the Bombay Regiment. Of the losses by the sepoys, four Madras and nine Bengal sepoys were killed while nineteen Madras and eleven Bengal sepoys were wounded. Clive estimates that the Nawab's force lost 500 men, including several key officers.

Captain John Wintersgill Piercy left Portsmouth on 8 June 1798 bound for Madras and Bengal. The change in captain necessitated the issuance of a new letter of marque, which was issued on 5 April 1798. She reached Madras on 1 October and Trincomalee on 27 October, before returning to Madras, which she reached on 23 December. On 6 February she sailed from Madras carrying 104 officers and men of the 28th Light Dragoons.

Usman was elected to the Madras Legislative Council as a Justice Party candidate in 1920 and served as a legislator from 1920 to 1923. Usman served as the President of the Corporation of Madras in 1924-25 and as the Shera of Madras in 1924. In October 1921, the Raja of Panagal, the Chief Minister of Madras, established a committee on Indigenous Systems of Medicine. He appointed Usman, the Secretary of the committee.

Krishna Iyer was born on 9 August 1897 in a Tamil Brahmin family of Kallidaikurichi, Madras Presidency.Weidman, Pg 119 He had his schooling at Ambasamudram High School and graduated from Madras Christian College. On graduating, he studied law at Madras Law College and practised as a lawyer at the Madras High Court till 1943. Krishna Iyer joined the Indian independence movement and was an active member of the Indian National Congress in the 1930s.

Bala Manian was born in Chennai (formerly Madras) India in 1944. He lost an eye in a childhood accident at age three and has seven siblings. His elder brother N. Vaghul has been chairman of ICICI Bank. Manian earned a BSc in physics from Loyola College, Madras and a postgraduate level diploma in instrumentation from the Madras Institute of Technology at Madras before earning a Masters in optics at the University of Rochester.

Balakrishnan Eradi was born on 19 June 1922 at Kozhikode in the Indian State of Kerala. He had his early education at the Zamorin’s High School and Zamorin's College, both in Kozhikode. He received his B.A. degree from the Madras Christian College, Madras in 1941 with first rank in Sanskrit. He studied Law at the Madras Law College and received his B.L. degree in 1943 with a first rank in Madras Presidency.

He served as a councilor in the Madras Corporation and in 1927 became a member of the Madras Legislative Council. He played a significant role in setting up the Madras Music Academy and served as its president in 1935. He was also nominated to the upper house of the Central Legislature of British India - the Council of States. During 1937–45, he served as the chairman of the upper house of the Madras legislature.

Walajah Road Railway Station is one of the oldest and first railway station in South India. It is situated in Ammoor and about 5 Kilometers from Walajapet. The first contract between the Madras Railway company and the government was held on 22 December 1852 an agent for the Madras railway came to Madras in 1853. The first section of the line from Royapuram(Madras) to Walajah road was opened on 1 July 1856.

Madras ( ) is a city in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States. Originally called "The Basin" after the circular valley the city is in, it is unclear whether Madras was named in 1903 for the cotton fabric called "Madras" that originated in the city of Madras (now Chennai) in Tamil Nadu, India, or from the name of the city itself. The population was 6,046 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Jefferson County.

Bhaktavatsalam was born to C. N. Kanakasabhapathi Mudaliar and his wife Mallika in a Saiva Vellalar family of Nazarethpet or Nazareth village, Madras Presidency. His father died when he was five and Bhaktavatsalam was brought up by his uncles C. N. Muthuranga Mudaliar and C. N. Evalappa Mudaliar. He completed his schooling in Madras and enrolled at Madras Law College. On graduation in 1923, Bhaktavatsalam commenced practice as a lawyer of the Madras High Court.

The library's beginnings go back to 1860, when Captain Jesse Mitchell set up a small library as part of the Madras Museum in Madras, capital of the Madras Presidency in the British Indian Empire. Hundreds of books had been found to be surplus in the libraries of Haileybury College (where civil servants of the Indian Civil Service were trained in Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire) and these were sent to the Madras Government, which in turn handed them over to the Madras Museum. Conceived on the lines of the British Museum Library, it was part of the Madras Museum until 1890, when the need for a free public library prompted the then Governor of Madras, Lord Connemara, to lay the foundation on 22 March 1890. It opened in 1896 and was named after Lord Connemara (by then the former Governor), an Anglo-Irish nobleman.

Rajan participated in the 1937 Madras provincial elections and was elected to the Madras Legislative Council. He took the portfolios of public health and religious endowments in the Rajaji cabinet.

When India attained independence, there were six radio stations within Indian territory, at Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Tiruchirapalli and Lucknow.FM broadcasting began on 23 July 1977 in Chennai, then Madras .

In his youth, Devanesen studied at Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore, Madras Christian College of the University of Madras, and the Christian Medical College in Vellore, all in India.

He was one of the founders of the Southern India Chamber of Commerce, Madras. In 1930 he became a member of the Central Legislative Assembly, nominated by Madras Indian Commerce.

Ceciliani was born in Tracy, California, though he moved to Madras, Oregon when he was young. Prior to playing professionally, he attended Madras High School and then Columbia Basin College.

The deities displayed include Rama, Krishna, Shiva, Ganesha, Hanuman, Lakshmi etc. Many of the Swami Silver pieces were monogrammed “ORR & Sons, Madras.”, “P. Orr & Sons of Madras,” or just “ORR”.

He served as a member of the selection panels of Madras and Delhi universities. He was a member of the expert committee of the Madras Music Academy Perhaps his greatest achievement was bringing out the Tamil edition of Sangita Sampradaya Pradarshini written by Subbarama Dikshitar. This was done for the Madras Music Academy.

Sujanmalji settled in Amalner, Maharashtra, while Manaklalji and Hiralalji settled in Madras (now Chennai). Sri Manaklalji had 3 sons namely, 1) Sri Nemichandji, 2) Sri Champalalji and 3) Sri Kasturchandji. Though Manaklalji had come to Madras, these 3 children stayed in Khichan family. After some time these 3 children also shifted to Madras.

Baker sailed from Plymouth on 26 February 1804, bound for Madras and Bengal. Fame was at Madeira on 29 March, reached Madras on 27 July and Masuliptam on 21 August, and arrived at Calcutta on 4 September. Homeward bound, she was at Kedgeree on 12 December and Madras again on 12 February 1805.

K. Rajah Iyer (15 July 1890 – 18 February 1974) was an Indian lawyer of the Madras High Court who served as Advocate-General of Madras Presidency from July 1945 to 1950. He was educated at the Presidency College, Madras. Rajah Iyer was on the bench when the Lakshmikanthan Murder Case trial took place.

Captain Foulkes left The Downs on 26 April 1791, bound for Madras and Bengal. Asia reached Madeira on 9 May and arrived at Madras on 10 September. On 8 November she arrived at Diamond Harbour. Asia returned to Madras on 3 March 1792, and sailed to Benkulen, which she reached on 18 April.

Captain Foulkes left Portsmouth on 12 April 1796, bound for Madras, Bengal, Bombay, and China. By 21 July Asia was at Simon's Bay, and she reached Madras on 16 November. On 20 December she was at Trincomalee before returning to Madras on 4 January 1797. She arrived at Kedgeree on 1 February.

He was born in Madras(present Chennai) on 8 July 1901, and graduated from Nizam College, Hyderabad. He did his M.A from Presidency College, Madras. While studying at Madras, he was acquainted with K. T. Paul, a prominent Social activist, Christian and YMCA leader. He taught briefly at Jaffna College, Ceylon, Sri Lanka.

Captain Barrow sailed from Plymouth on 22 February 1797, bound for St Helena, Madras, and Bengal. Britannia was at Saint Helena on 8 May St Helena and reached Madras on 1 August. She then cruised the coast, before returning to Madras on 30 September. She arrived at Diamond Harbour on 5 November.

When India became independent in 1947, Madras presidency became Madras State, comprising present-day Tamil Nadu, coastal Andhra Pradesh up to Ganjam district in Odisha, South Canara district Karnataka, and parts of Kerala. The state was subsequently split up along linguistic lines. In 1969, Madras State was renamed Tamil Nadu, meaning "Tamil country".

Rajaram was born to B S Ramaswamy Iyer, a Superintending Engineer with the Public Works Department (PWD) in Madurai in the Madras Presidency in 1917. He joined the Madras Flying Club and received his flying license in 1935. He attended the Presidency College, Chennai. He then joined the Madras Law College in 1938.

The Madras Non-Brahmin Association was formed in 1909 by two lawyers from Madras city, P. Subramanyam and M. Purushotham Naidu. Sir Theagaroya Chetty did not involve himself in the movement until 1912, when the Madras United League (Later renamed as Madras Dravidian Association) was formed. At a meeting held in Madras in November 1916 by a group of about thirty people, including Theagaraya Chetti and Dr. T. M. Nair, it was resolved to start a company for publishing newspapers advocating the cause of the non-Brahmin community. The newspaper was named Justice and started publishing from 26 February 1917 onwards.

Map of the Madras and South Mahratta Railway lines The Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway was a railway company that operated in southern India. It was founded on 1 January 1908 by merging the Madras Railway and the Southern Mahratta Railway. Beypore Railway Station at Chaliyam, Malabar District, which, for a short period, was the western terminus of Madras Railway Initially, its headquarters was at Royapuram in Madras but was later shifted to a newly constructed building at Egmore, which was inaugurated on 11 December 1922. On 1 April 1944, its management was taken over directly by the Government of India.

The original plat for Madras was filed on July 18, 1902, by Scandinavian immigrant John A. Palmehm, for whom the town was originally named "Palmain". The name was rejected by the U.S. Postal Service over its similarity to a post office named Parmen, and the name "Madras" was adopted, inspired by the cloth fabric of the same name, itself named for the city of Madras (now Chennai) in India. Madras was incorporated as a city in 1911. An Army Air Corps base was built nearby during World War II. This airfield now serves as [the Madras Municipal Airport].

Rao Bahadur Sir Kurma Venkatareddy Naidu KCSI (1875–1942) was an Indian lawyer, professor, politician and Justice Party leader who served as the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency from 1 April 1937 to 14 July 1937. He was the last Chief Minister of Madras Presidency from the Justice Party. Kurma Venkata Reddy Naidu hailed from a prominent Telaga Kapu family of Draksharama in Madras Presidency. He graduated from Rajahmundry Arts College, the Madras Christian College and Madras Law College. Reddy Naidu joined the Justice Party in 1919-1920 and was a part of T. M. Nair's delegation to the United Kingdom.

He virtually adopted a large cluster of poor households in Vepery and Choolai districts for whom he provided free legal service. He represented this Municipal constituency in the Madras Corporation for nearly twenty years from the early 1930s. During his Membership of the Madras Corporation he was for many terms the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Finance and other important Committees, and was elected the Deputy Mayor for a term. He was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1952, (see 1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election) from the Ponnani constituency in the South Malabar district of Madras Presidency .

Throughout his tenure, Harris was critical of the attitude of the Anglo-Indian press in Madras and tried to regulate the freedom of the press. He criticized them as: When the Indian Rebellion of 1857 broke out, the province of Madras remained loyal to the British Crown. As a result, Harris lent the whole Madras Army to the Government of India for quelling the rebellion. The Madras Army participated in the relief of Cawnpore in which Lieutenant-Colonel James George Smith Neill of the Madras Fusiliers indulged in indiscriminate massacre of Indians and was eventually killed.

Civic Activity Mayor of Madras; Member of Legislative Council (M.L.C.); Member, Madras District Congress Committee; Treasurer, Madras District Congress Committee; President, Mandal Congress Committee, Royapettah; Member Tamil Nadu Congress Committee; Member, City Council, 1952; Chairman, Standing Committee (Works) for two terms; Member, Pachaiyappa's Trust Board; Vice Chairman, Bharat Sevak Samaj; Trust-Board, Yoga Samaj, Adyar; President, Narikoravar Sangham, Tamil Nadu Director, Mylapore Hindu Permanent Fund, Limited; Managing Trustee, Sundareswarar Devasthanam Royapettah; Trustee, Sri Vadapalani Andavar Temple, Kodambakkam, Madras; Director, Hindu Union Committtee High school, Choolai, Madras; As Vice President of the farmers forum, he led a delegation to various farms in European countries.

The two alternative political solutions suggested by Andhra leaders were to make Madras as joint capital of Andhra and Madras States or to divide the City, allowing the areas north of the river Cooum going to Andhra and areas south of the river going to Madras states did not find favour with Tamils or central leaders. C. Rajagopalachari, the then chief minister of Madras province, did not support Madras moving to Andhra State. On the Tamil peoples' side M. P. Sivagnanam (ம.பொ.சி) leader of a Tamil organization called Tamil Arasu Kazhagam agitated against Telugus' claim organising rallies, meetings and dharnas etc.

The construction of this line began connecting South Indian Railway and Madras Railway. Erode Junction on Jolarpettai-Shoranur line was under Madras Railway whereas Tiruchirappalli Junction was under South Indian Railway.

The courses offered by the college are affiliated to the University of Madras. The college received permission from the Government of Tamil Nadu and is affiliated to the University of Madras.

In 1811, the 78th Regiment was ordered to Madras to augment the force which Sir Samuel Auchmuty, the Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Presidency, was about to lead to Java.

The 26th King George's Own Light Cavalry was originally raised as the 5th Regiment Madras Native Cavalry on 23 October 1787 as part of the Madras Presidency Army. In 1788, it was re-designated as the 1st Madras Native Cavalry and in 1816 its name was changed to 1 Madras Light Cavalry. The Regiment was yet again renamed as the 1st Regiment of Madras Lancers in 1886, and was known by that title till the turn of the century, when it was changed to 1st Madras Lancers. In 1903 it was renamed as the 26th Light Cavalry and three years later it became the Prince of Wales Own Light Cavalry and then in 1910, it became the 26th King George’s Own Light Cavalry.

Plan of Fort St George and the city of Madras in 1726,Shows the "Jews Burying Place" (marked as "b."), the "Jewish Cemetery Chennai", Four Brothers Garden and Bartolomeo Rodrigues Tomb Rabbi Salomon Halevi (last Rabbi of Madras Synagogue) and his wife Rebecca Cohen, Paradesi Jews of Madras Mr.Cohen his German wife and kids, Paradesi Jews of Madras Jews also settled in Madras (now Chennai) soon after its founding in 1640. Most of them were coral merchants from Leghorn, the Caribbean, London, and Amsterdam who were of Portuguese origin and belonged to the Henriques De Castro, Franco, Paiva or Porto families. Jacques (Jaime) de Paiva (Pavia), originally from Amsterdam belonging to Amsterdam Sephardic community, was an early Jewish arrival and the leader of Madras Jewish community.

English is the medium of instruction in the majority of institutions for higher education. The University of Madras, founded in 1857, is one of India's first three modern universities. Colleges for science, arts, and commerce degrees are typically affiliated with the University of Madras, which has six campuses in the city. The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) and the College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University are two well-known centres for engineering education in the city.

Moir joined the Indian civil service and served in Madras as Assistant Collector and Magistrate from 1898 to 1901 and Assistant Settlement Officer from 1901 to 1904. He served as Deputy Secretary in the Madras Government from 1910 to 1913 and was Acting Collector in 1914. From 1915 to 1918, he served as Private Secretary to the Governor of Madras. Moir was nominated to the Madras Legislative Council in which he served from 1922 to 1925.

Olcott of the Theosophical Society, Adyar in Madras, wanted to convene a meeting on Dharmapala's arrival in Madras. The meeting that took place on 8 August 1898 was held at Royapettah house of Singaravelar. Later on 28 September the Madras branch of the Maha Bodhi Society was inaugurated in the presence of a large gathering. At this meeting a resolution was moved by Singaravelar to form, in Madras, the first branch of the Maha Bodhi Society.

Lieutenant-General Sir George Cornish Whitlock (1798–1868) was a British Madras Army officer, who commanded the Madras Column (also called the Saugor and Nerbudda field force) during the Indian Mutiny. He was colonel of the 108th Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry) from 1862 to his death. He was baptised on 3 August 1803 at Ottery St Mary, Devon, son of George & Charlotte. He married Harriet daughter of Sir Samuel Toller on 19 February 1825 in Bangalore, Madras, India.

14 The Pamban railway bridge connecting Mandapam on the Indian mainland with Pamban island was opened for traffic in 1914. The Nilgiri Mountain Railway was inaugurated between Mettupalayam and Ootacamund in 1899. The Madras Tramways Corporation was promoted in Madras city in 1892 by Hutchinsons and Co. and began operating in 1895, before even London had its own tramway system. It plied six routes in Madras linking distant parts of Madras city and covered a total of .

Madras School Of Social Work, established in 1952, located in Chennai, India, is an Autonomous Institution, NAAC accredited and affiliated to University of Madras. Madras School of Social Work was founded by Mary Clubwala Jadhav under the auspices of Madras State Branch of the Indian Conference of Social Work (renamed the Indian Council of Social Welfare) and the Guild of Service (central). The school is run under the aegis of the Society for Social Education and Research (SSER).

Swamikannu Pillai was born in a poor Indian Christian family of Madras Presidency on 11 February 1865. Pillai had his schooling in Madras and graduated in law before doing his LlB. When the then President of the Madras Legislative Council, P.Rajagopalachari resigned his post in 1924 to join the India Council, elections were held for the post of President. In February 1925, Swamikannu Pillai took charge as the first elected President of the Madras Legislative Council.

He was born at Panditeripo, Ceylon, on 5 February 1822. He was the eldest son of John Scudder, Sr., the first American medical missionary to India and second missionary to American Madras Mission at Madras—Sr.Scudder arrived at Madras Mission in September 1836, while Miron Winslow commenced it in August 1836 after East India Company opened India in 1833 to missionaries of all lands, including non-British missionaries. Henry joined his father as a missionary at Madras in 1844.

Photograph taken in Madras c. 1860 Alexander Hunter (19 May 1816 – 7 May 1890) was a surgeon in the East India Company's Madras Army who was also a skilled and trained artist. In 1850 he founded the Madras School of Art, the first school of art and design in India, which was taken over by the government in 1855. He was a pioneer of photography in India, introduced courses at the art school, and founded the Madras Photographic Society.

Sarma was born in 1867 to Bayya Mahadeva Sastry, a Velandu Vaidik Brahmin inamdar in Visakhapatnam, Madras Presidency, now in Andhra Pradesh and had his early education in the Hindu High School, Visakhapatnam. He graduated with first class in his B.A from the Rajahmundry Government College, then under Madras University. He won the Metcalfe scholarship for his academic ability. Narasimheswara Sarma studied law at Madras University and joined the Congress during its Madras session in 1887.

Captain Charles Gregorie (or Gregory) sailed from The Downs on 30 December 1785, bound for Madras and Bengal. Manship was at Madeira on 29 January 1786 and reached Madras on 30 June. She arrived at Calcutta on 10 July. Homeward bound, she was at Cox's Island on 2 November, and Madras again on 16 December.

Captain John Altham Cumberlege acquired a letter of marque on 9 February 1796 and sailed from Portsmouth on 12 April 1796, bound for Madras and Bengal. Manship was at the Cape on 21 July, . arrived at Madras on 17 November. She visited Trincomallee on 10 December before returning to Madras on 4 January 1797.

Captain Grant sailed from Portsmouth on 17 March 1800, bound for Madras and China. Captain James Ludovic Grant sailed from Portsmouth on 17 March 1800, bound for Madras and China. Brunswick reached Madras on 13 July. She was at Penang on 23 August and Malacca on 19 September, and arrived at Whampoa on 30 October.

Captain Lynch sailed from Portsmouth on 11 May 1810, bound for Madras and Calcutta. Harriet was at Madeira on 27 May, reached Madras on 12 October, and arrived at Calcutta on 9 November. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 21 December. She stopped at Vizagapatam on 31 January 1811 and Madras on 26 February.

The Madras Day celebrations culminate each year with the Madras Quiz, held separately in Tamil and English. This is facilitated by the Mylapore Times. Many quiz enthusiasts come for this quiz, which is quite competitive in terms of content. The 2009 edition of the Madras Quiz in English was conducted by the Indian Quizzing League.

Govindaraghava Aiyar was born in the town of Chittoor. He graduated in arts and studied law from Madras Law College. Govindaraghava Aiyar became a non-officiating member of the Madras Legislative Council on January 9, 1903. In 1911, Govindaraghava Aiyar was made judge of the Madras High Court and served from 1911 to 1931.

Captain John Lewis sailed from The Downs on 13 December 1788, bound for Madras and China. Valentine reached Madeira on 29 December and São Tiago on 26 January 1789. She arrived at Madras on 1 May. She sailed from Madras on 10 July, reached Penang on 1 August, and arrived at Whampoa on 18 September.

It is said that Nirmala Medhi, an expert weaver herself, took hand weaving tools to Madras Rajbhawan. One Tamil gentleman saw the Late Nirmala Medhi weaving the traditional Assamese Gamocha and appreciating the tremendous business potential, started producing Gamocha in Madras in large scale and thus Gamocha from Madras (Tamil Nadu) started selling in Assam.

102 From 1789-1797, he was the sixth Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. He became the first Chief Justice of the erstwhile Supreme Court of Madras (which has since become the High Court of Madras) and in that capacity was also the first Chief Justice of the Madras Presidency, British India from 1801 to 1817.

Naidu joined the civil service after obtaining a degree in law and served as District Collector, magistrate and Inspector-General of Registration for the Madras Presidency before being appointed Commissioner of Chief Executive Officer of Madras. Venkatanarayana Naidu also served as Secretary to the Law Department of the Government of Madras from 1928 to 1930.

Captain Dale sailed from Torbay 12 May 1811, bound for Madras and Bengal. Streatham reached Madras on 10 September and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 15 October. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 12 December and Masulipatam on 18 January 1812. She reached Madras on 25 January and St Helena on 11 May.

Madras Musical Association was founded in 1893 in St Andrew's Church by Europeans residents in Madras and an Italian Signor Aloysio was its first chair and the Governor of Madras Presidency was its patron .Handel Manuel was the first Indian conductor.A whole range of music from classical, gospel, jazz, country, western and pop is played.

The Foote Collection of Indian Prehistoric and Protohistoric Antiquities, Notes on their Age and Distribution. Madras: Madras Government Museum. this made him into a prehistorian. He also conducted other expeditions in Gujarat.

He joined the Madras Law College and got his B.L. degree in 1907. Thereafter Singaravelar practised law at the Madras High Court. In 1889, Singaravelar married Angammal. Their only daughter was Kamala.

Muthiah 2004, p. 54 A wireless telegraphy service was established between Madras and Port Blair in 1920 and in 1936, the Indo-Burma radio telephone service was established between Madras and Rangoon.

Rangarajan was born in Madras to K. Srinivasan, Editor and Managing Director of The Hindu on 10 April 1936. He studied in Madras and became a Director in The Hindu in 1958.

Communicated by Lieutenant General Sir G. Berkeley, K.C.B., Commander-In-Chief of the Madras Army. Extracted from the Madras Artillery Records. with a Map. and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance in 1852.

Eleanor McDougall (1873–1956) was one of the pioneers in Women's education in India. She was the First Principal of Women's Christian College in Madras, Madras Presidency in British India in 1915.

C. H. Sibghatullah (4 November 1913 – 14 May 1985) was an Indian politician who served as mayor of Madras from 1951 to 1952. He was an alumnus of the Madras Christian College.

He was also on the board of the Madras Port Trust for a short time. Muthiah also served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council and Imperial Legislative Council of India.

Encyclopedia of Political Parties, Pg 146 He was the first non-official President of the Madras Corporation. He was one of the founder-members of the South Indian Chamber of Commerce and served as its President.Some Madras Leaders from 1910 to 1921. When the Industrial Conference came to Madras, Theagaraya Chetty was the Chairman of the Reception Committee.

The Lakshmikanthan murder case was a high-profile criminal trial that was conducted in the then Madras Presidency between November 1944 and April 1947. The cause of the trial was the murder of C. N. Lakshmikanthan, a Tamil film journalist. Lakshmikanthan was stabbed in Vepery, Madras on 7 November 1944. He died the next morning in General Hospital, Madras.

At Madras she grounded on the Pulicat shoal and her crew had to throw some of her cargo overboard to lighten her.Lloyds Marine List, 21 June 1816. She reached Madras on 25 December, Bombay on 1 February 1816, Madras again on 5 April, and St Helena on 20 July. She arrived at The Downs on 12 September.

Bengal issued one-pie, -, one- and two-paise coins. Bombay issued 1-pie, -, -, 1-, 1-, 2- and 4-paise coins. In Madras there were copper coins for two and four pies and one, two and four paisa, with the first two denominated as and one dub (or and ) rupee. Madras also issued the Madras fanam until 1815.

In 1870 he came to Madras (now named Chennai) in search of a job and managed to find employment in the Customs Department. Young Alasinga Perumal was sent to Hindu High School first. After completing his school studies from there, he was admitted in Presidency College, Madras, for pre-university courses. He then studied at Madras Christian College.

Krishnaswami Reddy practised as a lawyer in the Madras High Court and the subordinate courts at Chingleput till December 1960, when he was appointed public prosecutor at the Madras High Court. In 1964, he was appointed Advocate-General of Madras State and served till 8 July 1966, when he was controversially appointed to the bench of the High Court.

Naval Chronicle Vol. 4, p.54. EIC voyage #3 (1801-1802): Captain Gooch from Portsmouth on 31 March 1801, bound for Madras and Bengal. Sir Stephen Lushington reached Madras on 26 July and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 21 August. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 28 December, Vizagapatam on 13 January 1802, and Madras on 26 January.

The Madras Courier was the first newspaper to be published in Madras, Madras Presidency, British India and one of the first in India. It was the leading newspaper of its time and was the officially recognized newspaper for printing Government notifications. It first appeared in the English language on 12 October 1785. It was started by Richard Johnston.

Old notice at the Madras Museum with the original "free admission" policy erased Balfour was keen on collections and education. He founded the Government Central Museum at Madras in 1850. He became the first officer in charge of the museum at Madras. By 1879 the museum was attracting 180,000 people each year and in 1886 as much as 230,000.

Captain Hooper sailed from Portsmouth on 13 April 1810, bound for Madras and Bengal. Sir William Bensley reached Madeira on 19 May and Madras on 12 October, and arrived at Calcutta on 12 November. She was at Saugor on 27 December. She reached Vizagaptam on 31 January 1811, Masulipatam on 18 February, and Madras on 26 February.

She was at Madras again on 16 March, reached St Helena on 24 June, and arrived at Long Reach on 28 August. EIC voyage #3 (1791–1793): Captain Smith sailed from The Downs on 3 May 1791, bound for Madras, Bombay, and China. Dublin reached Madras on 16 August and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 8 September.

Captain Robert Fairfull sailed from Portsmouth on 1 April 1787 bound for Madras and Bengal. Minerva reached Johanna on 6 July and Madras 30 July, and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 13 August. She was at Cox's Island on 15 December and Madras on 27 December. She returned to Bengal, at Ingelli on 26 January 1788.

Khalid studied at Municipal High School of Kannur, Government Brennen College, Thalassery and Presidency College, Madras. He passed Law from the Law College, Madras. After the enrollment he started his lawyer career at Kannur Munsiff court initially then moved to the Madras High Court and Kerala High Court in 1948. He worked on Criminal, Civil and constitutional matters.

In 1877, T. Muthuswamy Iyer became the first Indian judge of the Madras High Court despite strong opposition from the Anglo-Indian media.S.A. 1969, p. 14Tercentenary Madras Staff 1939, p. 223 He also acted as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court for a few months in 1893, thereby becoming the first Indian to hold the post.

On completion of his education, Mudaliar worked as a college professor. In 1881, he was confirmed as Professor of Mathematics at the Presidency College, Madras. Earlier, in 1872, he had been nominated fellow of the Madras University. From 1875 to 1893 he wielded great power and influence as a member of the syndicate of the Madras University.

His brother, Diwan Bahadur S. Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar, C. I. E, served as the Inspector General of Registration in the Madras Presidency.Some Madras Leaders, Pg 43 Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar who in 1893, wrote Memorandum of Progress of the Madras Presidency during the last forty years of British administration to refute the charges of economic exploitation made by nationalists.

Captain Tweedale sailed from Portsmouth on 9 July 1795, bound for Madras and Bengal. Earl Fitzwilliam was at Rio de Janeiro on 7 September and reached Madras on 16 December. She arrived at Kedgeree on 20 February 1796. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 10 May, Madras again on 2 July, and the Cape on 4 November.

On August 15, 1947, India became independent country from British rule. Ramaswamy Reddiyar was the first Chief Minister of Madras state consisting Tamil Nadu and Rayalaseema, Coastal Andhra regions. Madras State was succeeded from Madras Presidency on January 26, 1950. However, the Telugu-speaking people were unhappy with the decision, as Tamil-speaking people dominated the entire statehood.

Raghavaiah was born in a Telugu-speaking family from the northern part of the Madras Presidency. He had his education in Madras city and entered the provincial civil service when he was posted as Deputy Collector in 1893. He also served as Special Forest Settlement Officer from 1904 to 1906 and Revenue Officer, Madras Corporation from 1906.

Sundara Rao Naidu joined the Justice Party in the 1920s and served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council. In the 1930s, he was secretary to the chief minister of Madras Presidency. Sundara Rao Naidu was nominated mayor of Madras city in 1946 and served till 1947. It was during his period that India became independent.

Captain Frederick LeMesurier sailed from Torbay on 3 April 1780, bound for Madras, Bombay, and China. Ponsborne was at Trinidade on 6 June, and reached Madras on 3 September. She visited Masulipatam on 22 September and then returned to Madras on 11 October. She was at Tellicherry on 27 November and Mahé on 4 January 1781.

Captain Gelstson sailed from Torbay 12 May 1811, bound for Madras and Bengal. Europe reached Madras on 10 September and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 11 October. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on November, Vizagapatam on 7 July 1812, and Masulipatam on 18 January 1812. She reached Madras on 25 January and St Helena on 11 May.

Captain Franklin sailed from the Downs on 3 April 1815, bound for Madras and Bengal. Northumberland reached Madeira on 18 April and Madras on 6 August. She arrived at Calcutta on 5 September. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 25 November, Madras on 29 December, Bencoolen on 1 February 1816, and St Helena on 10 May.

This eventually became Madras Act V of 1923. Educational reforms The Madras University Act was passed in the year 1923. The bill was introduced by Education Minister Sir A. P. Patro.Encyclopedia of Political Parties, Pg 74 As per the provisions of this bill, the governing body of the Madras University was completely reorganised on democratic lines.

With India's independence, Madras presidency became Madras State, which was divided along linguistic lines on 1 November 1956, whereupon Kasaragod region was merged with the Malabar immediately to the north and the state of Travancore-Cochin to the south to form the state of Kerala. Before that, Kasaragod was a part of South Canara district of Madras Presidency.

Namberumal Chetty was born in Madras (now Chennai) in 1856.He belonged to a Komati Chetty family. Namberumal Chetty started his business as a builder in 1880. During his career, Chetty constructed the buildings of the Government Museum, Chennai, Victoria Technical Institute, YMCA, Madras Law College, Connemara Library, Bank of Madras and the Victoria Memorial Hall.

Ephrem de Nevers came to Madras (Chennai) in 1642 to get a boat take him to Pegu. The English who founded the city of Madras in 1639, requested him earnestly to stay there for the spiritual benefits of the Portuguese Catholics.Love H.D, Vestiges of Old Madras, vol., ii, Published for the Government of India, London, 1913, p. 44-45.

Thangadurai Samuel is a classical guitarist from India. Samuel founded the Madras Guitar Society in 1988 which became the Madras Guitar String Ensemble in 1991. The Calcutta Classical Guitar Society honored him with a lifetime achievement award in 2010. He is the first classical guitarist to complete the practical part of the Trinity College of Music examination from Madras.

The regiment as first raised by the Honourable East India Company as the 2nd Madras Europeans, when it was formed from the 1st Madras Europeans in 1766. It served in India until it was disbanded in 1799. It was re-raised as the 2nd Battalion, The Madras European Regiment in 1822 but disbanded again in 1830.

The show began in the late 1970s at rancher Ron Ochs's alfalfa field near Madras. In 2000, the airshow moved to the Madras Municipal Airport. Planes from the Erickson Aircraft Collection became part of the show in 2014 when a new museum housing the collection opened at the Madras Airport. There was no airshow in 2020.

Nassar was born on 5 March 1958 to Mehaboob Basha and Mumtaz in Tamil Nadu, India. He studied in St. Joseph's Higher Secondary School (Chengalpattu). He moved to Madras (now Chennai) after school, where he finished his pre- university at Madras Christian College. At Madras Christian College, he was an active member of the Dramatic Society.

Sastri started his career as a lawyer of the Madras High Court in 1894. After serving as a lawyer, Sastri eventually became Judge of the Madras Small Causes Court. He was awarded the "Diwan Bahadur" title while serving as the District Judge of Berhampur in 1911. In 1914, Sastri was appointed judge of the Madras High Court.

Carnegie left Torbay on 12 May 1811, bound for Madras and Bengal. Baring reached Madras on 10 September and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 15 October. Homeward bound, she passed Saugor on 6 December, reached 8 Jan Vizagapatam on 8 January 1812, Madras on 25 January, and St Helena on 11 May. She arrived at Gravesend on 25 July.

Ballantyne left the Downs on 6 March 1789, bound for Madras and Bengal. Pigot reached Madras on 28 June and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 8 July. Homeward bound, she passed Saugor on 23 December, reached Madras on 2 February 1790, and St Helena on 29 August. She arrived back at the Downs on 29 June.

Captain Maxwell sailed from Portsmouth on 31 March 1801, bound for Madras and Bengal. Calcutta reached Madras on 26 July and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 20 August. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 13 January 1802 and Madras on 7 February. She reached St Helena on 14 May and arrived at Long Reach on 19 July.

Shri Iyyunni Chalakka was born on 15 October 1890. His father was Shri Rappayi. He was educated at C.M.S. High School, Trichur, Maharaja's College, Ernakulam, Madras Christian College, Madras and Law College, Trivandrum.

He worked with Arbuthnot & Co and was Chairman of the Bank of Madras and the Chamber of Commerce of Madras and Director of Commercial Union Insurance Co and of the Midland Bank Ltd.

The film was well-received by P. V. Cherian (then the chairman of the Madras Legislative Council) and Jothi Venkatachalam (then the Madras Minister for Health). The latter praised the film's moral values.

Venkatasubba Rao was born in Akividu Village in West Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh on 18 July 1878. He graduated from the Madras Christian College and studied law at the Madras Law College.

This list of University of Madras people includes notable graduates, professors, and administrators affiliated with the University of Madras. Five heads of state and two Nobel laureates have been associated with the university.

Central and western India (Bombay, Madras, Hyderabad, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar).

Cyril Thamarai Selvam is a judge in Madras High Court.

The Coimbatore Central Prison was built during the Madras Presidency.

The college is recognized by the University of Madras (UGC).

He was accompanied by Captain Fitzgerald with his Madras contingent.

The CōĻas. Madras: University of Madras.Keay, John. India: A History.

The present State of Tamil Nadu is a residuary part of the erstwhile Madras Presidency and was formerly known as Madras State. The first legislature of any sort for the Presidency was the Madras Legislative Council which was set up as a non-representative advisory body in 1861. In 1919, direct elections were introduced with the introduction of Diarchy under the Government of India Act 1919. Between 1920–1937, the Legislative Council was a unicameral legislature for the Madras Presidency.

Muthiah settled down in the city of Madras and took up a job with T. T. K. Maps, a newly formed cartographic division of T. T. K. Healthcare Ltd where he was tasked with preparation of tourist guides and books on South India. In 1981, Muthiah wrote his first book Madras Discovered based on the research he had done to prepare tourist guides on Madras city. He followed it with two more books on Madras and one each on Parry's and Simpson's Ltd.

Success in Madras commerce led Ismail into Indian politics. Along with K. M. Seethi Saheb, B. Pocker and K. Uppi Saheb, he was one of the principal leaders of All-India Muslim League in Madras Presidency from the mid-1930s. In 1945, he became the President of the Madras Presidency unit of the All-India Muslim League. In the elections to the Madras legislature, the League won all but ten of the reserved seats in 1936 and all in 1946.

She studied at Sacred Heart Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Presentation convent, Church Park, Chennai. Did her Pre - University at Stella Maris College, Chennai in 1961, MBBS at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka from 1962 - 1967, Junior & Senior Housemanship at Madras General Hospital from 1968 - 1970, MD at Madras Medical College, Madras University from 1976 - 1978, DGO at Madra Medical College, Madras University from 1971 - 1972. Joined Teaching Cadre and served Govt. Hospital for Women & Children, Egmore, Chennai and Ph.D in Reproductive Physiology.

The Madras Mail was started two journalists Charles Lawson and Henry Cornish on 14 December 1868. Lawson and Cornish had earlier served as editors in The Madras Times before resigning from editorship after a tiff-off with Gantz & Sons which owned the newspaper. Soon, the Madras Mail emerged as a formidable rival to both The Madras Times as well as The Hindu. In 1921, the newspaper was purchased by European businessman John Oakshott Robinson who added it to his business conglomerate.

The Madras Literary Society is a learned society in Chennai (earlier called Madras), India which was founded in 1817 and in 1830 it became associated with the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. It was founded by Sir John Henry Newbolt, Chief Justice of Madras with Benjamin Guy Babington as the founder secretary. The Society produced a journal called the Transactions of the Literary Society of Madras and from 1833 under the name of [Madras] Journal of Literature and Science. Most of the early members were Europeans and the first Indian to be admitted was Kavali Lakshmayya who worked with Colin Mackenzie.

Another member of the Madras team was James Cochrane, a British civil servant (not to be confused with the strong Scottish player John Cochrane, who was also in India at the time). With assistance from Cochrane, Ghulam Kassim published in 1829 a short book entitled Analysis of the Muzio Gambit, and match of two games at Chess, Played between Madras and Hyderabad, with Remarks by Ghulam Kassim, of Madras, who had the Chief Directorate of the Madras Games, and James Cochrane, Esq. of the Madras Civil Service. The first part of the book contained detailed analysis of the King's Gambit variation 1.e4 e5 2.

The Madras Railway (full name Madras Railway Company) played a pioneering role in developing railways in southern India and was merged in 1908 with Southern Mahratta Railway to form Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway. The Madras Railway was formed in 1845 and its first track from Royapuram in Chennai (then known as Madras) to Arcot was opened in 1856.It had as its objective, connection of Chennai on the east coast with the west coast, as also linking up with Bengaluru and the Nilgiris, and to link up with the line from Mumbai. 1857 from Walaja Road to Cuddalore route was proposed via Katpadi.

For most of the 19th century, the main railway route from Madras to Calcutta and Delhi was through Bombay. The Madras-Bombay mail train carried through carriages between Madras and Manmad which were detached at Daund. Passengers would then transfer to the Great Indian Peninsular Railway's Calcutta mail at Manmad to proceed to the northern and the eastern parts of the country. The East Coast line between Madras and Calcutta opened in 1900, providing a shorter route for the passengers bound to Calcutta, but the passengers bound to Delhi, Lahore and other major cities in the north, continued to rely on the Madras-Manmad mail service.

N. Krishnaswami Reddy (c. 1913 - 7 December 2002) was an Indian lawyer who served as Advocate-General of Madras State from 1964 to 1966 and later, as a judge of the Madras High Court.

In 1925, Singaravelar was elected as a member of the Madras Corporation. On Singaravelar's initiative first ever mid-day meal scheme was introduced in Madras for providing cooked meals to children in corporation schools.

However, still, its aims and objectives were considered seditious. In December 1895, on his visit to Madras, the Viceroy of India, Lord Elgin refused to receive the welcome address from the Madras Mahajana Sabha.

Captain R. Swanston sailed from Madras, bound for London. Lady Nugent left Madras on 20 April 1819. She reached St Helena on 17 September, and arrived at Spithead on 26 November.British Library: Lady Nugent.

Hutchins served as a judge of the Madras High Court from 1883 to 1886 and Madras Legislative Council from 1886 to 1888. In 1898, he was appointed to the Imperial Legislative Council of India.

He also served as Assistant Government Whip from 1930 to 1934. In 1934, Erskine was appointed Governor of Madras Presidency, British India. Erskine served as the Governor of Madras Presidency from 1934 to 1940.

Second Edition, WITH NOTES, CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS BY REV. G. U. POPE, Head Master of the Ootacamund Grammar School, and Fellow of the Madras University. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH MANUSCRIPT. Madras : J. HIGGINBOTHAM, MOUNT ROAD.

Shaw was born in Madras, British India, on 4 February 1839, the son of James Shaw, an Inspector General of Hospitals in Madras, and Ann Hay. He married Emily Grace Sheffield on 21 June 1870.

Rungacharlu had his schooling at Pachaiyappa's School and the Madras High School passing his proficient's test in 1849 in first class. Immediately upon matriculating, Mr. Ellis appointed Rungacharlu as a clerk in the Madras Collectorate.

75-77 He was educated at the Scottish Mission School, Madras Christian College, graduating in 1901 after majoring in philosophy. He then studied at Madras Law College, and practiced for some time as a lawyer.

He was the son of Pandit Krishna Sastri, senior Sanskrit pandit of Pachaiyappa's College, Madras. He graduated in B.A. from Madras University in around 1910 before taking an LL.B in 1912 and becoming an advocate.

Administration of Nilgiris District and Chittoor. In the 1930s, Brackenbury was appointed Commissioner of Labour in the Madras Presidency and in 1935, he succeeded G. T. H. Bracken as Chief Secretary to the Madras government.

In 1797 a Lying-in-Hospital (maternity hospital) for the poor of Madras was built with the help of subscriptions by John Underwood. In 1854 the government sanctioned a training school for midwives in Madras.

The term originated as a demonym for South Indians in the colonial period when the Madras Presidency (named for the city of Madras; modern-day Chennai) of British India administered nearly all of southern India.

Sir William Langhorne, 1st Baronet (c. 1631 – 26 February 1715) was the Agent of Madras from January 1670 to 27 January 1678.List of Governors of Madras, from worldstatesmen.orgThomas Seccombe, 'Langhorne, Sir William, baronet (c.

Langhorne arrived in Madras in 1670 to adjudicate in a dispute between Sir Edward Winter and George Foxcroft. A few months later, he was appointed as the Agent of Madras based at Fort St. George.

K. Parthasarathi was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Madras state. He served as the Deputy Speaker of the Madras Legislative Assembly from 1962 to 1967.

He was born in Coombaconum in Madras Presidency to Gundopanth Kumbhakoni in a Thanjavur Marathi family. He was educated in the Madras Presidency and on completion of his education, joined the service of the British.

The Madras Pioneers, went on to make Bangalore their permanent home.

Found in southern India. The type locality given is "Madras" [India].

R. Raghava Iyengar, Vanjimanagar, Madras University Publications, 1932, Tamil Nadu, India.

He later took the visual communication course at Madras Christian College.

She was surveyed at Madras, condemned, and sold for breaking up.

She studied History and Mass Communications from Women's Christian College, Madras.

He represented the Madras cricket team in four first-class matches.

George Bingham Arbuthnot (2 December 1803 – 30 May 1867) was a Major-General in the Honourable East India Company. Bingham was commissioned as a cornet in the 3rd Madras Light Cavalry in 1821, having previously served in the Royal Navy. he commanded the Governor General's Bodyguard, Madras, from 1841 to 1853 and as a lieutenant-colonel (1857) the 8th Madras Light Cavalry from 1856 to 1861. The Governor General's Bodyguard, Madras, was raised in 1778 and was originally composed of a small body of European cavalry.

Lord Camden arrived at Madras on 11 September. Homeward bound, she reached St Helena on 7 June 1795, and arrived at the Downs on 23 July. EIC voyage #5 (1796-1799): Captain Dance, Jr. sailed from Portsmouth on 12 March 1796, bound for Madras and Bengal. Lord Camden reached Simon's Bay on 21 July, Madras on 17 November, and Trincomalee on 20 December. She returned to Madras on 5 January 1797 and arrived at Kedgeree on 1 February and Diamond Harbour on 3 April.

Maulana Yakub Hasan Sait () or simply Yakub Hasan Sait (1875–1940) was an Indian businessman, freedom-fighter and politician who served as the Minister for Public Works in the Madras presidency from 1937 to 1939. Yakub Hasan Sait was born in Nagpur and educated in Aligarh University. At a very young age, he moved to Bangalore for business purposes and settled in Madras in the year 1901. He served as a member of the Madras Corporation and as a member of the Madras Legislative Council.

Issue of sharing of waters of river Tungabhadra has its genesis in 1861 when Kurnool-Cuddapah Canal (KC Canal) was proposed by the then Government of Madras. Despite agreement on construction of KC Canal project, there was no general agreement on sharing of Tungabhadra waters between Government of Madras and Government of Mysore. In 1930, Government of Madras proposed a joint project on the Tungabhadra. Subsequently, a number of conferences between the Governments of Madras, Mysore, Hyderabad and Bombay took place, but all were inconclusive.

Dorothy Cisley de la Hey (6 February 1884 - ?)DE LA HEY, Miss Dorothy Cisley in The India Office and Burma Office List 1945 was one of the pioneers in women's education in India. She was the founder of Queen Mary's College in Madras, Madras Presidency in British India in 1914. It is the third oldest women's college in India. She was 30 years old when she came to Madras to visit her brother, Clement de la Hey, Vice Principal of Newington College in Madras.

Hameed Khan entered politics by participating in the Khilafat Movement in Madras Presidency. In 1921, Hameed Khan, then a member of the Indian National Congress, quit the Congress to join the Swaraj Party and was elected to the Madras Legislative Council in 1927. He served in the council from 1927 to 1936 and was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1937 serving till 1951. Hameed Khan served as Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee, All India Congress Committee and the Madras Province Muslim League.

William Gyfford was an English factor and Agent of Madras from 3 July 1681 to 8 August 1684 and the President of Madras from 26 January 1685 to 25 July 1687.List of Governors of Madras, from worldstatesmen.org William Gyfford was associated with the Honourable East India Company's factory at Madras right from the time of its inception. He was made a factor of the East India Company in December 1657 and in 1662 became also a member of Council of Fort St George.

The regiment as first raised by the East India Company as the 3rd Madras European Regiment, when it was formed from the 1st Madras Europeans in 1766. It served in India until 1774, when it was absorbed by the 1st and 2nd Madras Europeans in 1774. Re-raised as a separate regiment in 1777, the 108th was disbanded in 1796. The regiment was re-raised as the 3rd Madras (European) Regiment in 1854, and then saw action in India in 1857 during the Indian Rebellion.

Governor's Body Guard, Madras This was the senior most regiment among the three Governor's Body Guard regiments. Raised in 1778 at Madras with one Sergeant, one Corporal & 12 European troopers & was placed under command of Lt. P. Sullivan. Unlike other Madras Army regiments, GBG, Madras retained its title throughout its history till 1947 when it was disbanded. The strength & composition of the unit, however, kept on changing. In 1778, it had one European troop & in 1781, the strength was raised to 1 European & 1 Native troops.

Sandur remained a separate territorial entity till 1 April 1949 when it was merged with the neighbouring Bellary district of Madras State (the previous directly- ruled colonial Madras Province). Sandur state was later incorporated into Bellary district, then part of the Madras Presidency. In 1953, Bellary District was transferred to Mysore State, which was later renamed Karnataka. The instrument of accession to the Dominion of India was signed by Yeshwantrao Ghorpade on 10 August 1947, thereby merging Sandur State with the Madras Presidency in 1949.

He soon joined an English military band that was being sent to India. Lebedev arrived at Madras (now Chennai), a port in southern India in August 1785. He was felicitated by the mayor of Madras and earned some money from musical programmes. However, the conservative society stifled him and so after living in Madras for a couple of years he left for Bengal.

When Madras entered the Madras League for the first time in 1939 Johnstone was the captain and a key player on the team and captained the Madras side throughout the period.Ramnarayan V (2012) An MCC of our own, ESPN, 2012-05-27. Retrieved 2018-02-24.Srinivasan TM (2009) Pitch for the city, The Hindu, 2009-12-08. Retrieved 2018-02-24.

Captain Sandilands sailed from the Downs on 2 March 1803, bound for Madras. Walpole reached Johanna on 21 May and arrived at Madras on 15 June. Homeward bound, she left Madras on 12 September, reached St Helena on 27 November, and arrived back at the Downs on 24 March 1804. Captain Sandilands acquired a letter of marque on 10 February 1804.

After finishing his studies in 1885, Alasinga went to Kumbakonam, and then to Chidambaram, leaving his family behind in Madras. In both these towns, he worked as a school teacher. He came back to Madras in 1889 when his father Chakravarti Narasimhacharya died and decided to settle there. In Madras he taught as well, working for Pachaiyappa's School in George Town.

Subbiah Muthiah, (13 April 1930 – 20 April 2019), was an Indian writer, journalist, cartographer, amateur historian and heritage activist known for his writings on the political and cultural history of Chennai city. He was the founder of the fortnightly newspaper Madras Musings and the principal organizer of the annual Madras Day celebrations. Muthiah was also the founder- President of the Madras Book Club.

Mother Teresa of St. Rose of Lima was born on 29 January 1858 in George Town, Madras, India, to Peter D’Lima and Mary D’Lima. She received the name Mary Grace on baptism. She studied with the Presentation nuns at George Town, Madras. After completing the schoolmistresses test, she joined the staff of St. Xavier's Free School, George Town, Madras in 1875.

Houghton sailed from Portsmouth on 30 April 1789, bound for Madras and Bengal. She reached Madeira on 22 May and Madras on 3 September, arrived at Diamond Harbour on 22 September. Leaving Calcutta, she was at Saugor on 25 January 1790, Madras on 11 March, and Masulipatam on 6 May. On 8 April she was near Budge Budge, below Calcutta.

Captain Carr sailed from Falmouth on 7 January 1776, bound for Madras and Bengal. Greenwich reached the Cape on 1 April and Madras on 2 June. She arrived at Culpee on 2 July. Homeward bound, she was at Ingeli on 25 August, Madras on 20 September, Mauritius on 3 December, 8 Dec Réunion on 8 December, and the Cape on 17 January 1777.

Captain Hays sailed from Portsmouth on 7 September, bound for Madras. Sir Stephen Lushington reached Madeira on 29 September and arrived at Madras on 12 February. Homeward bound, she reached St Helena on 3 May and arrived at The Downs on 13 July. EIC voyage #7 (1810-1811): Captain Hays sailed from Portsmouth on 14 March 1810, bound for Bombay and Madras.

After Indian Independence, the Madras Presidency became the Madras Province on 15 August 1947. On 26 January 1950, it was formed as Madras State by the Government of India. As a result of the 1956 States Reorganisation Act, the state's boundaries were re-organized following linguistic lines. The state was finally renamed as Tamil Nadu on 14 January 1969 by C.N.Annadurai, Chief Minister.

EIC voyage #3 (1791–1792): Captain Dance, Jr. sailed from the Downs on 4 April 1791, bound for Madras and Bengal. Lord Camden was at São Tiago on 1 May and Simon's Bay on 29 June. She arrived at Madras on 15 August and at Diamond Harbour 25 August. She returned to Madras on 8 October and Diamond Harbour on 17 November.

Soon after his arrival in Madras, Sait entered public life and was elected member of the Madras Corporation. Sait was one of founders of the All India Muslim League. He was an active party worker and visited England as a delegate of the League. He was also the only Muslim politician from the Madras Presidency involved in the drafting of the Lucknow Pact.

Historical records show that the city's name was once "Kammamettu.".A Descriptive and Historical Account in the Godavery District in the Presidency of Madras, H. Morris, 1878, London, p. 216A manual of the Kistna district in the presidency of Madras, Gordon Mackenzie, 1883, Madras, p. 25, 80Buddhist remains in Āndhra and the history of Āndhra between 224 & 610 A.D., K. R. Subramanian, p.

Singaravelar was born into a fisherman family, the third son of Venkatachalam and Valliammai in Madras (now called Chennai).Vasantha Kumaran, P. Singaravelar Godfather of Indian Labour. Chennai: Poornimaa Publication, He matriculated in 1881 and then, from Madras Christian College, he passed F.A. (First examination in Arts) in 1884. Singaravelar took his bachelor's degree from the Presidency College under the Madras University.

From 1783 to 1786, he was deputy to the deputy paymaster in Madras, and in 1785, was made a senior merchant. In 1790, he was appointed to the company's Board of Trade and was made clerk to the committee of works. Porcher served as mayor of Madras from 1791 to 1792 and was appointed military storekeeper at Madras in the latter year.

Andy and Eden take the Madras Express to Madras. Andy and Eden make love on the train. At Madras, their hotel room is run down and Eden is initially displeased. When Andy listens to the radio in Agra he hears an announcer describing the bear market in Europe: If you make the market your mistress you have to put up with its moods.

For Admiral Aplins first voyage Captain John Rogers left The Downs on 20 May 1802, bound for Madras. She arrived at Madras on 25 September. On 3 January 1803 she was at St Helena, and on 31 March she arrived at Deptford. For her second voyage Captain Rodgers left Portsmouth on 28 August 1803, bound for Ceylon, Madras, and Bengal.

She earned a BSc, MSc, and MPhil in Computer Science and Statistics, Madras Christian College, University of Madras, India. She earned a PhD in Demography/Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. At Madras Christian College, Kattumri's professor and mentor was Gift Siromoney, an internationally renowned computer scientist, and founder and chairman of the college's Department of Statistics.

Hunter 1908, p. 303 By 1946–47, the Madras Presidency had of metalled roads and of unmetalled roads, and of navigable canals. The first railway line in South India was laid between Madras and Arcot, which was opened for traffic on 1 July 1856.Muthiah 2004, p. 321 The line was constructed by the Madras Railway Company formed in 1845.

It paid £1,479 3s 4d for having delayed her departure by 71 days. Queen left Portsmouth on 2 May, bound for Madras and Bengal, and reached Madras on 11 September. She sailed up India's east coast to Diamond Harbour, which she reached on 15 October. Her return voyage took her past Saugor on 30 Jan 1795 and to Madras again on 29 March.

Muttayil Govindamenon Sankara Narayanan was born at Ponnani, Malabar district on 20 August 1932. He had his early education at Parappanangadi, Ponnani, Calicut and Thrissur. He later moved to Madras (present day Chennai) to pursue his master's degree in history from Madras Christian College. He topped the University of Madras in his post-graduation in 1953 (1st Rank and 1st Class).

Captain Dundas sailed from Portsmouth on 14 March 1790, bound for Bengal and Madras. Earl Fitzwilliam was at Madeira on 5 April, and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 13 August. Homeward bound, she was at Cox's Island on 13 December, and Madras on 19 January 1791. She was at 'Broken Ground', Bengal, on 6 February, and Madras again on 9 April.

Kurian Kathanar took charge of his education. Inspired by Kurian Kathanar, he became a Deacon and Kathanar of the undivided Malankara Syrian Church. Later, he received an offer from the C.M.S Anglican missionaries to pursue university education at the newly opened Madras University at Madras. He accepted the offer and after graduating from Madras University, he became an Anglican priest.

Eradi enrolled as an advocate in Madras High Court. He began his profession as junior to K. Kuttikrishna Menon, before starting an independent practice in the Madras High Court. He was later appointed by the Madras Government as Junior Counsel to conduct several Government cases. Eradi shifted his practice to Ernakulam in 1956 when the new High Court of Kerala was established.

Captain Robert Anderson left Portsmouth on 7 May 1786, bound for Madras and Bengal. Swallow reached Johanna on 29 July, and Madras on 21 August, arriving at Calcutta on 12 September. Outward bound, she passed Kedgeree on 19 November and again reached Madras on 1 December. She then stopped at St Helena on 31 January 1787 before reaching the Downs on 30 March.

Captain Thomas sailed from The Downs on 6 April 1792, bound for Madras and Bengal. Ponsborne reached Madras on 1 August and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 17 August. She then visited Ganjam on 3 October and Vizagapatam on 13 October, before returning to Diamond Harbour on 27 November. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor 25 December and Madras on 14 January 1793.

On 7 January 1821 Lady Lushington, Scott, master, sailed for Madras and Calcutta. On 15 February she left Madeira, and on 26 June she arrived at Madras. As Lady Lushington sailed from Madras to Calcutta, she was driven ashore and wrecked on 10 August 1821, north of the mouth of the Koringa River, near Vizakapatam. By one account 14 passengers and crew drowned.

The English complied willingly. Aurangazeb guaranteed the independence of Madras, but in return demanded that the English supply troops in the event of a war against the Marathas. It was around this time that Yale's three-year-old son David Yale died and was interred in the Madras cemetery. The records of this period mention a flourishing slave trade in Madras.

1st EIC voyage (1781–1786): Captain Bruce Boswell sailed from Plymouth on 26 June 1781, bound for Madras, Bengal, Bombay, and China. Earl of Chesterfield reached St Helena on 18 November, and arrived at Madras on 31 March 1782. She arrived at Kedgeree on 17 September. She was at Madras again on 28 November before returning to Kedgeree on 2 February 1783.

He resigned from the army as a lieutenant-colonel a few years later in order to practice as a lawyer. He was appointed first, Crown Prosecutor and then, Public-Prosecutor, Madras, 4 July 1885. In March 1887, he was appointed Acting Advocate-General of Madras Presidency. Spring Branson served as a legislator in the Madras Legislative Council between 1886 and his death.

Next, Guildford made a voyage to Madras and Bengal for the EIC. Magnus Johnson was still her captain and he left Torbay on 26 May 1825. Guildford reached Madras on 5 September and then went on to Calcutta. On her return voyage she reached Madras on 11 January 1826 and St Helena on 23 March, and arrived at the Downs on 30 May.

After completing his bachelor's, Guruswami Mudaliar joined Madras Medical College for a degree in medicine. He passed out with flying colours and he later practised at Government Hospital, Thanjavur. After a few years, he was pressed into service as a professor at Madras Medical College. He was the first Indian to be appointed Professor of Therapeutics at the Madras Medical College.

Captain James Jameson acquired a letter of marque on 5 August 1808. He sailed from Portsmouth on 17 September 1808, bound for Madras and Bengal. General Stuart was at Madeira on 28 September, reached Madras on 11 February 1809, and arrived at Calcutta on 24 March. Homeward bound, she was at Diamond Harbour on 4 July and Madras again on 12 September.

Ramakrishnan was born on 9 August 1923 in Madras. His father was the famous lawyer Sir Alladi Krishnaswami Iyer, who, as a member of the Constituent Assembly, was instrumental in drafting the Constitution of India with other prominent members. He had his early education in P. S. High School, Madras. He graduated from Presidency College, Madras, with B.Sc. (Hons) degree in physics.

Rangaiah Naidu was born in 1828 in a Telugu-speaking family in Madras Presidency. He graduated in law and set up a prosperous vocation as a lawyer. He was soon nominated to the Madras High Court.

Rama Varma died on 21 March 1932 in Madras. He was aged 74. As he died at Madras, he is known as 'Madrasil Theepetta Thamburan'. His death came two months after the death of his predecessor.

This includes the church bell, bearing the inscription 'Madras Mint 1868' Illustration of the Fort Church, Bangalore by Rev. Frank Penny, in his book 'The Church in Madras, Volume II' provides a description of the church.

Watts was born on 11 June 1878 to Frank Watts, Chief Secretary of the Government of Travancore. He had his early education in Madras and after graduating in law, entered the Madras provincial service in 1901.

Sir Hale Horatio Shephard (1842 - 19 April 1921) was a British lawyer who served as the Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency in 1885 and acted as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court in 1898.

Muray Hammick graduated from the Fell King's College and joined the Indian Civil Service after clearing the exams in 1875. He arrived in India on December 18, 1877 and served as Sub Collector in the Madras President and as Assistant Commissioner of Coorg. He served as the Inspector- General of police of Madras from 1894 to 1906 when he was appointed Chief Secretary to the Madras government. In 1908, Hammick was appointed to the Executive Council of the Governor of Madras and served from 1908 to March 1912, when he was chosen to act as the Governor of Madras until the arrival of the governor-designate John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland in October 1912.

He considered that, in the then likely scenario of Japanese invasion, India would need the support of the British and hence required the Congress and the League to agree on the constitution of India with urgency. In April 1942, parts of the Madras Presidency were bombed by Japanese warplanes operating from the aircraft carrier Ryūjō. Arthur Hope, the Governor of Madras advised the people to leave Madras and also moved the secretariat inland. Rajaji considered this an act of the British administration forsaking the people of Madras and brought resolutions in Madras Legislature Party of the All India Congress Committee that the Congress should concede the demand of Pakistan if the League insisted on it.

The battalion was established in the Madras Presidency of the HEIC on 10 February 1810 as the Madras Volunteer Battalion. Captain W. Munro, formerly of the 15th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry, was appointed to command of the battalion.History of the Madras Army by Lieutenant Colonel William John Wilson, 1883 The authorised strength of the battalion at establishment was: : Europeans: 1 Captain Commandant, 3 Captains, 10 Lieutenants, 5 Ensigns, 1 Adjutant, 1 Surgeon, 1 Assistant Surgeon, 1 Sergeant Major, 1 Quartermaster Sergeant : Natives: 10 Subedars, 10 Jemadars, 50 Havildars, 50 Naiks, 900 Sepoys, 20 Drummers and Fifers, 12 Puckallies. The battalion was renamed the Madras Rifle Corps in March 1814 and equipped with the Baker rifle.

However, Louis Mallet, the then Under-Secretary of State for India, was all praise for him. On receipt of his last minute as governor, Mallett said W. S. Blunt, the British publicist, who visited Madras in November 1884, said of Grant Duff: The Madras Mahajana Sabha was established in 1884 with P. Rangaiah Naidu as its president and R. Balaji Rao as its vice-president. This is considered to be one of the oldest Indian political organisations in the Madras Presidency, notwithstanding the Madras Native Association, which was a failure. Members of the Madras Mahajana Sabha played a pivotal role in corresponding with Indian associations in other provinces and forming the Indian National Congress in 1885.

In 1683, Governor William Gyfford (1681–1687) and his Council in Madras established a bank. In 1805, Governor Sir William Bentinck convened a Finance Committee that recommended the formation of a First government bank in India; the Madras Bank, which was sometimes called the Government Bank amalgamated Lord Krishna Bank, began functioning from 1 February 1806. It initially functioned from the Exchange Building—the building housing the present Fort Museum—within Fort St. George. The Bank of Madras was formed in 1843 as a joint stock company with a capital of Rupees 3 million by the amalgamation of Madras Bank, Carnatic Bank (1788), the British Bank of Madras (1795), and the Asiatic Bank (1804).

Muthuswami Iyer served as a judge of the Madras High Court from 1877 to 1895. He acted for three months in 1893 as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, the first Indian to do so.

Captain Maitland sailed from Portsmouth on 2 May 1794, bound for Madras and China. Busbridge reached Madras on 11 September and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 15 October. Homeward bound, She was at Saugor on 31 December.

Thomas Sydney Smith was an Indian lawyer who served as the Advocate General of Madras Presidency (now known as Tamil Nadu, India) from 1861 to 1863. He was ex-officio a member of the Madras Legislative Council.

B. Baktavatsalu Naidu was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress, and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Madras state. He served as the Deputy Speaker of the Madras Legislative Assembly from 1952 to 1967.

Sir John Henry Newbolt (1769 - 22 January 1823) was an English judge who served as Chief Justice of Madras and was founder of the Madras Literary Society. He was Member of Parliament for Bramber for 1800–02.

Vaiyapuri Periyakaruppiah was a judge of the Madras High Court in India.

The first ship from Madras arrived in Mauritius on 21 April 1843.

He played one match as back. He was born in Madras, India.

Isaac received a BSc in zoology from The New College, Madras University.

In 2012 he was named a Distinguished Alumnus by the IIT Madras.

By 1839, they had completed their education in Madras and returned home.

A tablet to his memory was placed in the garrison church, Madras.

Accordingly, in October 1915, Lancaster joined the service of the Madras government.

Madras suffered a magazine explosion. She was sold at Valletta in 1807.

In 1928, he joined as Sir W. Meyer Lecturer in Madras University.

St. George's Church became prominent as the cathedral of Madras in 1835.

The Fort William had two successful trips: 1785/6 Madras and China.

A third son, Robert Montagu, was major-general in the Madras army.

Along with Andrew Cogan, he is regarded as the founder of Madras.

Lieutenant General Ross Lang was Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army.

The film won an award from the Government of the Madras Presidency.

In October 2016 Rao revived the Madras Courier as an online publication.

Sukumar Prasad received a degree from the AC College of Technology, Madras.

Madras Cafe was a box-office hit grossing more than 100 crore.

The film's outdoor scenes were taken at Guindy Reserve Forest in Madras.

Rev. John Thomas was born in Mackay's Gardens, Madras, India, in 1871.

Satthianadhan returned to Madras in 1883 and joined the Indian government service.

Then on 3 April 1821 Captain P. Wallace sailed Orient to Madras.

The customary law of inheritance was codified by the Madras Marumakkathayam Act 1932, Madras Act No. 22 of 1933, published in the Fort St. George Gazette on 1 August 1933. Malabar was part of the Madras Presidency in British India. In the Madras Marumakkathayam Act 1932, 'Marumakkathayam' is defined as the system of inheritance in which descent is traced by females, and 'Marumakkathayee' means a person governed by the Marumakkathayam law of inheritance. The system of inheritance is now abolished by The Joint Family System (Abolition) Act, 1975, by the Kerala State Legislature.

The Madras Synagogue is the only Synagogue in Tamil Nadu, it was built by Jacques (Jaime) de Paiva (Pavia) a Paradesi Jew of Madras. Madras Synagogue was also known as the Esnoga, or Snoge, Esnoga is synagogue in Ladino, the traditional Judaeo-Spanish language of Sephardic Jews. The Amsterdam Sephardic community was among the richest Jewish communities in Europe during the Dutch Golden Age. They came to Madras for trading in Golconda diamonds, precious stones and corals, they developed very good relations with the rulers of Golkonda and maintained trade connections to Europe.

In the Year 1946, the Welfare Committee of the Madras University granted permission to this college to start the UG Courses. Then the subjects like Economics, History, and Mathematics were taught at the UG Level. The College started functioning as the first UG Degree College, affiliated to Madras University, in the year June 1946. Pudukkottai Samasthanam (The Kingdom of Pudukkottai) was annexed with the Trichy District in Madras Presidency in the year 1948. Since then the college, under the control of the Director of People’s Education, Madras Presidency was declared as the Government College. B.Com.

Karunakara Menon was born in a Nair family (Cozhisseri Tharavadu) of Parappanangadi, Malabar district, Madras Presidency. He graduated in law from the University of Madras and joined The Hindu as a sub-editor.Some Madras Leaders, Pg 88 On graduation, he plunged into public life in 1890 when he opposed the Malabar Marriage Bill of T. Muthuswamy Iyer.Some Madras Leaders, Pg 87A short essay by Karunakara Menon on the Malabar Marriage Bill Menon's opposition to the bill impressed Muthuswamy Iyer to such an extent that a close friendship developed between the two.

The move itself is classified under A00, but the numerous transpositional possibilities can result in various ECO codes. While this opening has never been common, the Madras player Ghulam Kassim, annotating the 1828 correspondence match between Madras and Hyderabad, noted that "many of the Indian players commence their game in this way."Gulam Kassim, Analysis of the Muzio Gambit and Match of Two Games at Chess between Madras and Hyderabad, Madras, 1829 The hypermodern player Richard Reti played 1.g3 several times at Baden-Baden in 1925, with mixed results. 1.

His tenure was plagued by deteriorating socio-economic and health conditions. In 1876, the Great Famine of 1876–78 broke out in Madras Presidency. By August 1877, the famine had spread all over the Presidency and over 18 million people were affected. To make matters worse, the rains failed in parts of Madras and Mysore. Large quantities of grain were shipped from Bengal to Madras port, and through his efforts, famine relief was distributed to 839,000 people in the Madras districts, besides 160,000 in the Bombay Districts and 151,000 in the Mysore districts.

Districts of Tamil Nadu at the time of the formation of the state in 1956 and districts divided (as of 2009) marked in gray As a result of the 1956 States Reorganisation Act, the state's boundaries were re-organized following linguistic lines. The Tamil speaking region Kanyakumari was merged to Madras state which was earlier a part of Travancore-Cochin. Madras state was formed on 1 November 1956, with 13 southern districts of Madras Presidency. They are as follow : Chingleput, Coimbatore, Kanyakumari, Madras, Madurai, Nilgiris, North Arcot, Ramanathapuram, Salem, South Arcot, Thanjavur, Tiruchirappalli and Tirunelveli.

He toured England with the university the following year, playing a further first-class match against Northamptonshire at Northampton. He moved to British India shortly after, playing first-class cricket in January 1926 in the 1925/26 Madras Presidency for the Europeans against the Indians at Madras. He made two further first-class appearances for the Europeans against the same opponents in the 1928/29 Madras Presidency and 1929/30 Madras Presidency. Playing a total of five first-class matches, he scored 67 runs at an average of 8.37, with a highest score of 50.

Madras Bashai () is a pidgin language or a dialect of Tamil language influenced by Indian English, Telugu, Malayalam, Burmese and Hindustani spoken in the city of Chennai (previously known as Madras) in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu; it is not mutually intelligible with any of those except for Tamil, to a certain extent. The word bashai derives from the Sanskrit word bhasha, meaning "language", which means Mozhi (மொழி) in Tamil. Madras Bashai evolved largely during the past three centuries. It grew in parallel with the growth of cosmopolitan Madras.

Khan Bagadur Sir Mohammad Usman KCSI KCIE Khan Bahadur Sir Mohammad Usman (1884 - 1 January 1960) was an Indian politician, hakim and socialite who served as the Minister of Home for the Madras Presidency in the Justice Party government of the Raja of Bobbili and as the first Indian acting Governor of Madras from 16May 1934 to 16August 1934. His name is often written Muhammad Usman. Usman was born into an aristocratic family of Tanjore in the Madras Presidency in 1884. He graduated from Madras Christian College and joined the Justice Party.

Sir Subbier Subramania Iyer (; 1 October 1842 – 5 December 1924) was an Indian lawyer, jurist and freedom fighter who, along with Annie Besant, founded the Home Rule Movement. He was popularly known as the "Grand Old Man of South India". Subramania Iyer was born in the Madurai district of Madras Presidency. On completion of his schooling in Madura, Subramania Iyer qualified as a lawyer from the University of Madras, and went on to practice as a lawyer in Madurai and Madras, before being appointed a Judge of the Madras High Court, in 1891.

Tekur Subrahmanyam was born on 9 August 1900 at Uravakona in Ananthapur District of then Madras Presidency (now in Andhra Pradesh). Tekur, as he was popularly known, was a leader in Madras Presidency before independence when Ballari was part of the Presidency. He was Secretary of Madras Congress Legislature Party and also Political Secretary to Rajaji (1937–1939) who was then Prime Minister of Madras Presidency. After independence he became a prominent political leader in Karnataka when Ballari got merged with erstwhile Mysore state (now Karnataka) in 1953.

While the Madras Army remained in existence as a separate entity until 1895, twelve of the Madras Native Infantry regiments were disbanded between 1862 and 1864. A further eight went in 1882, three between 1902 and 1904, two in 1907 and four in 1922. The remainder were disbanded between 1923 and 1933, leaving the highly regarded Madras Sappers and Miners as the only Madrasi unit in the Indian Army until a new Madras Regiment was raised in 1942, during World War II. Both of these regiments continue to exist in the modern Indian Army.Keegan, p.

1890 The Queen's Own Madras Sappers and Miners, 1896 The Madras Army officers were in the early years very conscious of the soldiers' local customs, caste rituals, dress, and social hierarchy. Some leading landowners joined the Madras Army, one of whom is recorded as Mootoo (Muthu) Nayak from the nobility in Madura. As the army expanded and new officers came in, mostly from Company sources, the leadership style and care of the men changed for the worse. The most famous incident in the Madras Army was the Vellore mutiny.

In July 1746 French commander La Bourdonnais and British Admiral Edward Peyton fought an indecisive action off Negapatam, after which the British fleet withdrew to Bengal. On 21 September 1746, the French captured the British outpost at Madras. La Bourdonnais had promised to return Madras to the English, but Dupleix withdrew that promise, and one to give Madras to Anwar-ud-din after the capture. The Nawab then sent a 10,000-man army to take Madras from the French but was decisively repulsed by a small French force in the Battle of Adyar.

After having laboured for fourteen years at Oodooville, he was transferred to Madras, South India. Having arrived at Madras on August 18, 1836, he had chosen that as the mission site for the American Madras Mission and started his missionary activities; consequently, Winslow is credited in commencing [founding] the American Madras Mission in 1836. In September 1836, he was joined by John Scudder, Sr., the first American medical missionary in India. In 1839 they were joined by the young missionary printer Phineas R. Hunt who sailed from America to take charge of the mission press.

An example of this is the renaming of predominantly Hindi-speaking Uttaranchal () to a new local Hindi name ( Uttarakhand). Other changes were only changes in some of the indigenous languages. For example, the renaming of the Madras Presidency to Madras State in 1947 and then Tamil Nadu in 1969 required non-Tamil speakers to change from an approximation of the British name ( Madras Presidency, then Madras State ) to a native Tamil name ( Tamil Nadu, "Tamil country"). In general, changes to the local names of cities in the indigenous languages are less common.

Alexander is an alumnus of Guru Nanak College, Chennai and Madras Christian College, prestigious institutions in Chennai, India. He joined as a professor in Department of Zoology, Madras Christian College in 1986, where he served until his retirement in 2020. He took charge as the Principal of Madras Christian College in 2009, serving the college in that capacity for 11 years. Considering his contributions to entomology, University of Madras Awarded Alexander DSc in 2010 in recognition of his “contributions to the knowledge of Indian whiteflies (aleyrodidae: Hemiptera: Insecta) with an emphasis on whitefly-ant interaction”.

In March 1857, Tripe became official photographer to the Madras government, taking photographs of objects shown at the Madras exhibition and portraits of Madras residents. In 1858, he took photographs of subjects of architectural or antiquarian interest, and pictures useful from a practical, engineering perspective. He exhibited 50 photographs from this tour in the annual exhibition of the Photographic Society of Madras in 1859. In March 1862 a series of his photographs were exhibited by Professor Archer at a meeting of the Photographic Society showing Poodoocotah, Madura, Ruakotta, Seringham, the Elliot Marbles, &c.

Her father, Subbarama Swaminathan was a barrister at the Madras High Court and principal of the Madras Law College. Her mother was Ammu Swaminathan. Her elder sister Lakshmi Sehgal was the commander-in-chief of Subhas Chandra Bose's 'Rani of Jhansi Regiment' of the Indian National Army ( Azad Hind Fauj). Her elder brother, Govind Swaminathan, was a barrister who practised in Madras as a specialist in constitutional and criminal law apart from civil law and company law; he was the attorney general for Madras State (now Tamil Nadu).

The public of Madras subscribed to a statue in honor of this surgeon, which was unveiled by Lord Erskine, Governor of Madras, in 1939. That statue still stands near the exit gate of the Government General Hospital, Chennai.

Rajagopalan was born in 1902 in Kumbakonam, Madras Presidency. He had his education in Kumbakonam and joined the services of the Madras government. However, he was soon affected by cataract and was forced to quit his government job.

Krishnarajapuram railway station (station code: KJM) is located at the junction of the Old Madras Road (NH 4) and Outer Ring Road, Bangalore. The cable stayed bridge of Old Madras road crosses the tracks just near the station.

Malleson, p. 67Orme, pp. 177–178 The British losses were estimated at 22 killed and 50 wounded. Of the killed, three were of the Madras Artillery, one of the Madras Regiment and one of the Bengal European Regiment.

The transfusion mocktail is identical to the cocktail but does not contain any vodka. A transfusion with orange juice substituted for the Sprite or ginger ale is a Madras. You can also make a Madras with cranberry juice.

Catherine Nicks (d. 1709) was an English businessperson.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography She has been referred to as the first woman entrepreneur in Madras. She was listed in 1678 as one of five English single women in Madras.

Guyana had many Tamils in its plantations since 1838. Most of them were from Madras and in 1860, 2500 from Madras alone settled there. Tamils were spread in about 60 towns. There is also a popular Mariamma temple.

Diwan Bahadur Sir Vembakkam Bhashyam Aiyangar (January 1844 – 18 November 1908) was an eminent lawyer and jurist who served as the first Indian Advocate-General of Madras Province and also as a Judge of the Madras High Court.

This ESSA 3 satellite image was taken on November 3, 1966 at 0819 UTC of a tropical cyclone striking Madras, India A cyclone struck Madras, India on November 3, killing over 50 people and leaving 800,000 people homeless.

Madras School of Social Work (MSSW) is an autonomous college located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1952. It is affiliated to the University of Madras and offers various under-graduate and graduate courses in social sciences.

He then sailed her to India. On 15 November 1800 Captain Andrew Barclay received a letter of marque. On 23 November she sailed for Madras, leaving Spithead on 7 December. She arrived at Madras on 16 April 1801.

Sir Charles Arnold White (1858 – 6 September 1931) was a British lawyer who served as the Advocate-General of Madras Presidency from 1898 to 1899 and as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1899 to 1914.

Agamemnon returned to England via Madras and Bombay. On 21 November 1820 she left for Madras carrying the various detachments of troops that had come out as guards on convict transports. The troops were to rejoin their regiments.

Rukmini was born in Madras in an agriculturist family. Her grandfather was the landlord Raja T. Ramrao. She obtained her B.A from the Women's Christian College, Madras and married Dr. Achanta Laxmipathi. In 1923, she joined the Congress.

Madras Mahajana Sabha was an Indian nationalist organisation based in the Madras Presidency. Along with the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha, Bombay Presidency Association and the Indian Association, it is considered to be a predecessor of the Indian National Congress.

Baring reached Madras on 5 July, and Saugor on 29 July. Homeward bound she reached Madras on 22 October, the Cape on 30 December, and St Helena on 25 January 1808. She arrived at Purfleet on 11 April.

Gustav Solomon Oppert, (30 July 1836 – 1 March 1908) was a German Indologist and Sanskritist. He was a professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, Presidency College, Madras, a Telugu translator to government, and a curator in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library. He was a professor in Madras from 1872 to 1893. He was also editor of the Madras Journal of Literature and Science from 1878 to 1882.

Captain Gregorie sailed from The Downs on 4 April 1788, bound for Madras and Bengal. Manship reached Madras on 14 July and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 23 July. Homeward bound, she was at Cox's Island on 20 November, and Saugor on 24 December. She was at Madras again on 1 January 1789, reached St Helena on 23 April, and arrived at The Downs on 21 June.

Captain John Altham Cumberlege sailed from Portsmouth on 2 April 1799, bound for Madras and Bengal. Manship reached Madras on 2 August and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 15 September. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 10 December and Madras on 15 January 1800. She reached St Helena on 23 April and Cork on 29 June, and arrived at The Downs on 5 July.

Dissatisfied, the tahsildar appealed once again against the verdict. Though the Madras High Court refused to entertain a second appeal, the Governor of Madras intervened and issued an order on 31 May 1883 acquitting the tahsildar due to lack of evidence The District Collector of Chingleput who had allegedly shielded the corrupt tahsildar later acted as the Revenue Secretary of the Government of Madras.

Captain Dempster sailed from Torbay on 24 April 1792, bound for Madras and Bengal. Rose reached the Cape of Good Hope on 8 July and Madras on 25 August, and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 21 September. Homeward bound, She was at Saugor on 18 January 1793 and Madras on 17 February. She reached St Helena on 19 May, and arrived at The Downs on 21 August.

In 1758 Lawrence raised the Madras Regiment, forming the several Companies of Madras Levies into two battalions. 2 Madras was raised in 1776 as the 15th Carnatic Infantry at Thanjavur (and underwent many name changes thereafter). The regiment has been through many campaigns with both the British Indian Army and the Indian Army. Many well-known British officers have commanded this regiment, among them Robert Clive.

He had secured first rank in the Raffles Institution, first rank in Pre- University (for which he studied in Madras Christian College, Chennai), first rank in the Joint Entrance Examination for admission to the IIT's, and first rank in BTech Degree programme of IIT Madras. He secured his BTech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Madras in 1974 and PhD from the same institute in 1978.

EIC voyage #3 (1787–1788): Captain Robertson sailed from The Downs on 19 February 1787, bound for Madras and Bengal. Busbridge reached Madras on 6 June and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 27 June. Homeward bound, she was at Cox's Island on 16 November, returned to Madras on 6 January 1788, reached St Helena on 2 March, and arrived at Long Reach on 29 April.

The remainder of his first-class career was spent in India. He played for the Europeans in the Madras Presidency Matches of 1933 and 1934. He played three matches against the touring MCC team of 1933/34, two first-class matches for a Viceroy's XI and for Madras and a non- first-class match for Mysore. The match for Madras was his final first-class appearance.

EIC voyage #1 (1780–1781): Madras and China. Captain Thomas Wakefield sailed from Portsmouth on 12 February 1780, bound for Madras and China. Lascelles reached Madras on 29 June and Malacca on 19 August; she arrived at Whampoa anchorage on 15 September. Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 7 January 1781, reached St Helena on 25 June, and arrived at The Downs on 19 October.

Rungacharlu was born in the Chingleput district, Madras Presidency in a Vadagalai Iyengar family. His father C. Raghavachariar was a clerk in the Chingleput Collectorate. Rungacharlu's parents were poor and only after V. Raghavachariar, the first Indian magistrate in Madras promised to support him financially, that Rungacharlu was able to pursue his schooling to Madras. As a child, Rungacharlu developed a passion for chess.

Millar p. 62. The four battalions of Madras infantry to the right of the 78th, accompanied by the Madras Pioneers,Sandes The Indian Sappers and Miners, p. 41. reached Pohlmann's line shortly afterwards and attacked in the same fashion. The gunners stood by their cannon but were no match for the bayonets of the British and Madras troops who swiftly pressed on towards the Maratha infantry.

Anibal Castro Jose Pacheco Lucila Pacheco Jose Mathias Pacheco, was a bandleader at Madras Gymkanna Club. He migrated to Ceylon in the 1940s and worked as piano tuner in Colombo. returned to Madras and started a music business hiring pianos & other instruments ( tuning & repairing ) while playing double bass for the Madras Philharmonic Orchestra and various other bands. Retired to Goa in the 1970s (d.

Chetty established Madras Native Association in 1852 as a platform for educated Indians to protest against any injustice on the part of the British. It was the first Indian political organization in the Madras Presidency. Chetty served as its first president. Initially, his plans had been to establish a branch of the British Indian Association in Madras; however, a separate organisation was formed instead of a branch.

Captain Smith sailed from the Downs on 24 May 1795, bound for Madras and Bengal. Minerva reached Madras on 2 September and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 5 October. Homeward bound, she was at Cox's Island on 4 December, Madras on 6 January 1796, and the Cape on 26 April. She reached St Helena on 30 May and arrived at the Downs on 3 August.

The first edition titled Madras Discovered was published in 1981 by East-West Books. It was 160 pages long and priced at Rs. 10. A second edition of Madras Discovered, 286 pages long was published in 1987 followed by a third edition in 1993. The fourth edition which came in 1999 was titled Madras Rediscovered and was augmented by a supplement titled "Once Upon a City".

A Telegraph department was set up in 1854, with a Deputy Superintendent stationed in Madras city. The Colombo-Talaimannar telegraph line established in 1858, was extended to Madras in 1882, thereby connecting the city with Ceylon.Wright 1999, p. 207 Telephones were introduced in the presidency in 1881 and on 19 November 1881, the first telephone exchange with 17 connections was established at Errabalu Street in Madras.

Runganadha Mudaliar was born in 1847 in Madras to Pundi Subbaraya Mudaliar who worked as a manager in the Madras Irrigation Company. Subbaraya Mudaliar was transferred to Avanashi when Runganadha was young but later moved to Madras following an incident of burglary. Runganadha had his initial schooling at home where he learnt Tamil and English. At the age of thirteen, Runganadha enrolled in Pachaiyappa's High School.

In 1897, a European exhibitor first screened a selection of silent short films at the Victoria Public Hall in Madras. The films all featured non-fictional subjects; they were mostly photographed records of day- to-day events. In Madras (present-day Chennai), the Electric Theatre was established for the screening of silent films. It was a favourite haunt of the British community in Madras.

As a result of his sacrifice, the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru bifurcated Madras state to the new Andhra state consisting eleven districts of Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema on October 1, 1953 with Kurnool as its temporary capital of Andhra state and the Madras city as permanent capital of Madras state. The High court of the Andhra state was established in Guntur on basis of Sribagh Pact.

In August 1836 Major-General Sir George Elder left England, having been selected to serve on the staff at Madras. On 3 December, just one week after he arrived in Madras, he died in a horse riding accident: He was followed to the grave, with every mark of honour and respect, by the military and civil authorities, and a large portion of the population of Madras.

The Mayoralty of Madras came into existence when the Corporation of Madras was established in 1688. The first mayor was Nathaniel Higginson, who resigned after a period of six months to take over as Governor of Madras. The post of mayor was abolished in 1801. The post of mayor was revived by the Raja of Bobbili government on 17 January 1933, by the City Municipal Act.

T. L. Venkatarama Iyer graduated from Madras Christian law College in 1916. After doing apprenticeship under Sir Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer, he started practicing in the Madras High Court from 1917. He became a Judge of the Madras High Court in 1951 and continued to serve till November 1953. Thereafter he served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India from 1954 up to 1958.

Captain Cumine sailed from Portsmouth on 4 March 1806, bound for Madras and Bengal. Bengal reached Madras on 27 June and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 9 July. She then was at Saugor on 6 September, Penang on 17 October, and back at Kedgeree on 13 December. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 23 January 1807, Madras on 23 February, and Colombo on 19 March.

Students from Simnasho and elsewhere on the reservation may attend school at Warm Springs K–8 Academy in Warm Springs or Madras High School in Madras. Both schools are part of Jefferson County School District 509–J. Warm Springs is about south of Simnasho, and Madras is another , which makes for long commutes by schoolbus. A separate school at Simnasho has come and gone several times.

The first native Indian to both govern the Madras Presidency and later serve as Mayor of erstwhile Madras was the Honourable K. Sriramulu Naidu, who served during the 1930s and 1940s. In 1978, the boundaries of the area administrated by the corporation was increased to 174 sq km. The Madras Municipal Corporation Act, 1919 (as amended) provides the basic statutory authority for the administration now.

In 1854, he went to Madras in South India with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, an Anglican missionary society. He became an Anglican priest ordained by Bishop of Madras in 1855. In 1856 after becoming the Registrar of Madras University and Professor of Sanskrit and Vernacular Literature in Presidency College, he severed his relationship with the missionary society.

Captain Leigh sailed from Portsmouth on 4 October 1809, bound for Madras and Bengal. Georgiana reached Madras on 16 February 1810, and Calcutta on 16 May. She was at Saugor on 11 September and Madras on 9 October, before returning to Calcutta on 6 November. Homeward bound, she was at Kedgeree on 19 February 1811, the Cape on 2 June, and St Helena on 4 July.

Ananathakrishnan, a native of Taracad in Palakkad district, Kerala, was the eldest son of T. K. Narayanan and T. A. Annapurani. After completing schooling at Mangalore and Palghat, he completed undergraduate study in zoology at the Madras Christian College, Madras (now Chennai) with honours in 1946. He completed M.Sc by research, obtained a Ph.D followed by a D.Sc, all from the University of Madras.

Carnegie left Portsmouth on 24 February 1809, bound for Madras and Bengal. Baring reached Madeira on 8 March and Madras on 5 July, and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 19 July. Homeward bound, she passed Saugor on 17 October, reached Vizagapatam on 31 December, Madras on 13 January 1810, Colombo on 3 February, and St Helena on 3 May. She arrived at Long Reach on 8 July.

Balakrishnan had been educated in Madras and took his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in botany from Presidency College, Madras. He later joined the university Botany Laboratory, Chepauk, Madras to work for his M.Sc. degree under the guidance of the late Professor M.O.P.Iyengar. He was a fine sportsman; in his earlier days he played cricket well. At the same time he was keenly interested in Carnatic music.

Captain Murray sailed from Torbay on 12 May 1811, bound for Madras and Bengal. Devonshire reached Madras on 10 September and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 12 October. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 23 November, Vizagapatam on 8 January 1812, Coninga on 12 January, and Madras on 25 January. She reached St Helena on 11 May and arrived at Northfleet on 23 July.

Rao completed his higher secondary education in 1954 from Board High School, Krishnagiri. He did his Intermediate at St.Joseph's College in Bangalore. He obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree with physics as major from Madras Christian College attached to the University of Madras in 1958. In 1962, he received a distinction in his Master of Science degree in physics through Madras Christian College from the same University.

She visited Calingapatam on 14 March before returning to Madras on 19 April. She left Madras on 11 August, reached St Helena on 26 October and Cork on 17 January 1800, before arriving in the Downs on 31 January.

He imprisoned the crew of the Tiaga Raja, an Indian merchant vessel from Madras, and stole £2,000 from it during its stay in Mergui. He then seized the ship of the Armenian merchant John Demarcora, a resident of Madras.

The Office- bearers of The Madras Medical Mission are: H.G Dr. Yuhanon Mar Diascoros, Bishop of Madras - Hon. President; Mr. Reji Abraham - Hon. Vice-President; Mr. M.M. Philip - Hon. Secretary and Chairman (PIMS); Mr. E. John Thomas - Hon. Treasurer.

Sumner p.15 Following these reforms the 64th Pioneers became the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Madras Pioneers in 1922, and then in 1929 they joined the Corps of Madras Pioneers. The regiment was finally disbanded for economic reasons in 1933.

Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898 p428: London, Horace Cox, 1898 After a curacy in Tunbridge Wells he went as a Chaplain to Madras. He served at Vizagapatam, Trichinopoly, Coimbatore and Ootacamund. He was Archdeacon of Madras from 1893 to 1900.

Hence on 2 October 1963, Bhaktavatsalam took office as the chief minister of Madras as Kamaraj desired to spend more time serving the party. Bhaktavatsalam is, till date, the last Chief Minister of Madras from the Indian National Congress.

Madras College, often referred to as Madras, is a Scottish comprehensive secondary school located in St Andrews, Fife. It educates over 1,400 pupils aged between 11 and 18 and was founded in 1833 by the Rev. Dr Andrew Bell.

IIT Madras was established in 1959. The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Madras offered management education in the form of M. Tech. (Industrial Engineering) from 1959 . A MBA program was started by the department in 2001.

According to a legend, many babul trees (known locally as velan trees) surrounded this region, which led to the name "Vellore". Vellore is also known as the Second Madras because of its importance and location relative to Chennai (Madras).

William Harington (1768–1821) and of Anne Collet (1772–1820) on 2 February 1820 in Madras. John Sullivan is best known as the founder of the British settlement at Ootacamund. But he never became the Governor of Madras Presidency.

Coja Petrus Uscan (1680/81 – 1751) was an Armenian merchant and leader of the Armenian community of Madras who was known for his immense wealth and unflinching devotion and loyalty to the British during the French occupation of Madras.

The first school in Vedurupaka was established by the Canadian Baptist Mission,Statistical appendix of Madras State, Superintendent, Government Press, Madras, 1935, pp.207, 405. one of the early Christian mission initiatives. It was later gifted to the Government.

Sir John Edward Power Wallis (3 November 1861 – 8 June 1946) was a British lawyer who served as the Advocate-General of Madras from 1900 to 1906, and Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1914 to 1921.

Nilakanta Sastri, K.A. (1935). The CōĻas, University of Madras, Madras (Reprinted 1984). Kempegowda On 14 December 2013, Bengaluru's main international airport was renamed as Kempegowda International Airport. Bengaluru's prominent Kempegowda Bus Station has been named so to honour Kempegowda.

On 10 March she sailed for Madras and Bencoolen. On 29 March she sailed from Madras to Penang. In 1827 her master was P. Campbell, and Alexander & Co. were her managing owners.East–India Register and Directory 1827, p.155.

Chennai historian S. Muthiah delivering a lecture on The Story of Photography in Madras at the Press Institute of India as a part of Madras Day 2015 celebrations Madras Day is a festival organized to commemorate the founding of the city of Madras (now Chennai) in Tamil Nadu, India. It is celebrated on 22 August every year, 22 August 1639 being the widely agreed date for the purchase of the village of Madraspatnam or Chennapatnam by East India Company factors Andrew Cogan and Francis Day from Damarla Venkatadri Nayaka, the viceroy of the Vijayanagar Empire. The idea of a Madras Day was first suggested by Chennai-based journalist Vincent D'Souza to historian S. Muthiah during a meeting of the trustees of the Chennai Heritage foundation in 2004. Since then, Madras Day celebrations have been held every year without fail, its highlights being exhibitions, lectures, film screenings and quizzes.

1964, The Music Academy of Madras in Muthuswami Dikshitar school of Carnatic music.

He was the Founding Secretary of "Telugu Basha Samithi" of Madras and Hyderabad.

Patro was also responsible for creating the existing administrative system of Madras University.

Sadasiva died at Madras on 1 December 1927 at the age of 66.

Santhome is a locality in Mylapore in Chennai city (formerly Madras) in India.

The film was shot ast Bharani studios and processed at Madras Cine Lab.

This led to Madras time also being known as "Railway time of India".

A pipe organ was obtained from Madras and was installed at the church.

He started practising as an advocate of the Madras High Court in 1918.

Vaiko was born to a farming family in Kalingapatty near Sankarankovil, Madras Presidency.

T K Radhakrishnan (1919-2003) was a Carnatic classical flautist from Madras, India.

Between 20 March 1831 and 1832 Lady Nugent sailed to Madras and Bengal.

He joined C.M.S. College, Kottayam and then left for higher studies in Madras.

Children of age for secondary school normally attend Madras College in St Andrews.

He was initiated into Sannyasa (monkhood) in 1917 by Swami Brahmananda in Madras.

He sailed from Mauritius back to India, arriving at Madras in September 1846.

P. Earl was listed as master & owner, and her trade was London–Madras.

He also served as Advocate- General for Madras State from 1966 to 1967.

At about midnight, Richardson took the town and drove away the Polygar. The required amount of provisions were obtained and transported back to Madras. On 3 June 1681 Streynsham Master was replaced with William Gyfford as the Agent of Madras.

In around 1670 he married Mary, the illegitimate daughter of Henry Greenhill, merchant, of Madras (now Chennai), India, by his Goanese mistress who was the widow of John Gurney a Madras merchant. The couple had two sons and one other child.

The Act abolished the Supreme Courts at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay; the Sadar Diwani Adalat and the Sadar Faujdari Adalat at Calcutta; Sadar Diwani Adalat and Sadar Faujdari Adalat at Madras; Sadar Diwani Adalat and Faujdari Adalat at Bombay (§8).

Zaehner discusses each, and appraises their religious innovations.Zaehner delivered the same three lectures in Delhi, Calcutta [Kolkota], and Madras [Chinnai], and at Christian colleges, and a fourth lecture at Madras University. These four lectures comprise his Evolution in Religion (1971).

Wilson was designated as a Senior Advocate by the Madras High Court in November 2009 at the age of 43. He has appeared in important Constitutional matters and other matters in the civil and commercial sides before the Madras High Court.

Captain Sturrock sailed from Portsmouth on 5 March 1808, bound for Madras and Bengal. Preston reached the Cape on 31 May and Madras on 3 August. She arrived at Diamond Harbour on 12 August. Preston was at Saugor on 28 August.

The price of rice in the > town, had been at one time four Madras measures per rupee (or 2d. per lb.) > Rice was also raised in price to 12 seers (8 Madras measures), the rupee, > (1d., per lb) in Ganjam.

Sait won the 1937 elections to the Madras assembly. He was made a minister in the Madras cabinet and was given in charge of the Public Works Department. Sait resigned along with other ministers when Britain declared war on Germany.

7 Hermeneutics, Tradition and Contemporary Change: Lectures In Chennai/Madras, India: Indian Philosophical Studies, VII; George F. McLean. (paper). 2004 IIIB.8 Plenitude and Participation: The Life of God in Man: Lectures in Chennai/Madras, India; George F. McLean. (paper) IIID.

Retrieved 21 July 2015. Anandan once again replaced Raghavan as captain for the 1954–55 season's first-round fixture, a loss to Madras on first innings.Travancore-Cochin v Madras, Ranji Trophy 1954/55 (South Zone) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

The Diocese of Madras consists of areas under Chennai (formerly Madras), Nellore, Chinglepet, North and South Arcot and the Tamil speaking areas of Chitoor district. It has around 80,000 members, with 120 presbyters. The diocese has 186 Pastorates and 1192 congregations.

On 30 May 1856, he matriculated from the Trinity College. He was the Governor of Madras from 15 May 1872 till his death on 27 April 1875, decessit vita patris. He died unexpectedly at Government House, Madras of typhoid fever.

Vijay was born in Madras, India to Maggie Dhairyam and Robert Amritraj. He has two brothers, Anand Amritraj and Ashok Amritraj, who were also international tennis players. He did his schooling from Don Bosco and graduated from Loyola College in Madras.

The EIC also had Cloverdale measured and inspected. He sailed from London on 30 July and from Portsmouth on 27 September, bound for Madras and Bengal. Coverdale reached the Cape on 14 January 1799 and arrived at Madras on 9 May.

He went on to become Governor of Madras and, at the same time, Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army, in which role he restored the discipline of the army, which had been allowed to fall into a relaxed state.

Janakiraman graduated in Statistics from Madras University and completed his MCA also from Madras University. While working as a programmer in New Jersey, USA, Murugavel Janakiraman started a community portal in April 1997. In 2000 he founded the website BharatMatrimony.com.

Students are required to undertake a major project as a component of their studies. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT Madras, India) offers two year Master of Technology (M.Tech) course in Clinical Engineering jointly with CMC Vellore and SCTIMST Trivandrum.

The train initially ran between Madras and Mangalore. During that time the name of the train was Madras - Mangalore Malabar Express. In 1963 the train route was extended to Cochin Harbour Terminus and later this was again extended to Thiruvananthapuram Central.

Captain John Mackintosh sailed from The Downs on 30 March 1803, bound for Madras. He was issued a letter of marque on 16 July, i.e., after he had left. Union arrived at Madras on 16 August, and left on 22 October.

He studied economics at Madras Christian College and graduated in law from Madras Law College. On completion of his graduation, Shanmukham Chetty did not join the bar. Instead, he took care of the family business and after some time, entered politics.

The Superfast service of Train Number 139/140 started its service to Varanasi from Madras Beach station, from the opposite Platform where an MG Ganga Kaveri Express used to run to Rameswaram since Chennai Beach - Chennai Egmore - Rameswaram line was still in Metre Gauge. Later the superfast status was erased, made to terminate at Madras Central (now Chennai Central instead of Madras Beach (now Chennai Beach) as an Express and connection with Madras - Rameswaram Exp removed and name changed from Ganga Kaveri Exp to Madras - Varanasi Express. Thus increased halts at some stations, converted from one-night to two-nights train, slowed down by more than 3 hours, Green and Yellow colored Rakes withdrawn and AC sleeper service introduced., [IRFCA.com],11 April 2015.

M Battery, Royal Horse Artillery was formed on 23 January 1809 as 2nd Troop, Madras Horse Artillery, a horse artillery battery of the Honourable East India Company's Madras Army. On 5 August 1825, it was redesignated as B Troop, 1st Brigade, Madras Horse Artillery as the Madras Horse Artillery expanded to 8 troops and was organized as two brigades. A reduction to 6 troops on 4 January 1831 resulted in the brigades being discontinued and the remaining troops lettered in a single sequence, hence becoming B Troop, Madras Horse Artillery. As a result of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British Crown took direct control of India from the East India Company on 1 November 1858 under the provisions of the Government of India Act 1858.

The first electrically operated rail service in Madras began on 2 April 1931 between Madras Beach and Tambaram, which became the earliest metre gauge to be electrified in the country. It was launched by Sir George Fredrick Stanley, the then governor of Madras, who was reported to have said at the opening ceremony that the new train services would transform "desolate south Madras into burgeoning garden cities". However, the service was opened to the public only a month later on 11 May 1931. The Madras Electricity Supply Corporation, which powered the railway lines, was aided by sub-stations in Egmore and Meenambakkam. Soon, the number of trains shuttling passengers was increased to 45 a day, running every 10 minutes at peak hours, and every 30 minutes, otherwise.

Some portions of the old Mylapore Diocese were joined and the old Archdiocese of Madras forming the new Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore, with The Most Rev. Dr. Louis Mathias as its first Archbishop. Thus St. Bede's, which had so far been under the diocese of Mylapore, now came under the new Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore. In 1953, Fr. G. Lawson was appointed General Prefect and Assistant Headmaster.

In 1912, the Madras United League was formed. Natesa Mudaliar was one of the founders of the league and served as its Secretary. The league was largely composed of government employees and concentrated on improving the literacy of non-Brahmins by conducting adult education classes. In 1914, the Madras United League was renamed as the Madras Dravidian Association and Panaganti Ramarayaningar, later the Raja of Panagal was elected President.

In 1890, Lawley was appointed Governor of Madras by the Conservative Party which came to power in the United Kingdom. Beilby Lawley served as the Governor of Madras from 23 January 1891 to 18 March 1896. Lawley laid the foundation stone for the Nilgiri Mountain Railway which was begun in August 1891 when he was Governor. During 1891–92, the northern districts of Madras Presidency were gripped by a terrible famine.

MGR Memorial at Marina beach, Chennai Chennai is a major centre for music, art and culture in India. The city is known for its classical dance shows. In 1930, for the first time in India, Madras University introduced a course of music, as part of the Bachelor of Arts curriculum. The Madras Music Season, initiated by Madras Music Academy in 1927, is celebrated every year during the month of December.

After leaving the district attorney position, he became president of Jefferson County Title and Abstract Company and bought a farm near Madras. He returned to public service in 1949, serving as the Madras city attorney. During this period, Overhulse was active in the Madras Odd Fellows lodge, the local Lions Club, the Prineville Elks chapter, and the Chamber of Commerce. He was also president of the Oregon Bar Association.

He sailed from Portsmouth on 4 March, bound for Madras and Bengal. Lord Castlereagh reached Madras on 27 June and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 10 July. She then was at Saugor on 5 September, visited Penang on 17 October, and was back at Kedgeree on 13 December. Homeward bound, she was at Madras on 15 February 1807, Colombo on 20 March, and St Helena on 16 June.

John was educated at Kottayam M.T. Seminary High School, Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) Maharaja's college, Madras Wesley College, and Madras Christian College. The stay at Madras, made changes in his attitude, outlook, and lifestyle. He was attracted to Indian Nationalism, and started to wear Khadi, following the principles of Mahatma Gandhi. He was able to meet a number of foreign missionaries that made him decide to select gospel work as his ambition.

Muthuswami Iyer died in January 1895 after an illness of ten days. On his death, Sir S. Subramania Iyer took the seat in the bench of the Madras High Court left vacant by his death. A statue of Muthuswami Iyer was erected in the precincts of the Madras High Court campus. The section of Kamrajar Salai connecting Chepauk with the Madras High Court is known as T. Muthuswamy Salai.

The Advocate-General of Madras was charged with advising the Government of the British administered Madras Presidency on legal matters. The Presidency existed from 1652 to 1950. Prior to 1858, when it was administered by the East India Company, the Advocate-General was the senior law officer of that company and also the Attorney-General of the Sovereign of Great Britain and an ex- officio member of the Madras Legislative Council.

Jayakeralam was a Malayalam–language weekly literary magazine published from Madras (now Chennai). It was established by C. R. Krishna Pillai in 1947 in order to encourage Malayalam writers both in Madras and Kerala, and to vocalize the "special needs" of the Malayali people. Jayakeralam was printed from Janatha Printing Press, also set up by Pillai in Madras. C. K. Appukutty Guptan was the editor of the magazine.

On 19 May 1941, Iyengar died in his house in Madras. Srinivasa Iyengar remains the youngest lawyer from the Madras bar to be made Advocate-General. Srinivasa Iyengar was also the mentor of freedom-fighters U. Muthuramalingam Thevar and Sathyamurthy. K. Kamaraj, who later became the President of Tamil Nadu Congress Committee and served as the Chief Minister of Madras from 1954 to 1962 is believed to be his greatest find.

Captain Thomas Jones acquired a letter of marque on 21 March 1806. He sailed from Portsmouth on 10 June, bound for Madras and Bengal. Tottenham reached Madeira on 27 June, the Cape on 3 October, and Madras on 21 December, and arrived at Saugor on 4 February 1807. She left Bengal on 25 March, returned to Madras on 13 April, and returned to Diamond Harbour on 5 June.

28 Aug Madras – 18 Sep Penang – 22 Oct Malacca – 1 January 1806 Whampoa – Second Bar 28 Feb – 16 Mar Malacca – 28 Mar Penang – 2 Jul St Helena – 3 Sep Downs. Captain Henry Wilson sailed from Portsmouth on 24 April 1805, bound for Madras and China. Warley reached Madras on 28 August, Penang on 18 September, and Malacca only on 22 October. She arrived at Whampoa on 1 January 1806.

Madras Rediscovered: A Historical Guide to Looking Around is a book on the history of Chennai (previously known as Madras) authored by Chennai historian S. Muthiah. Originally titled Madras Discovered, the first edition was published in 1981. Since then, the book has emerged a bestseller and has run into seven editions. A Tamil translation of the book Chennai Marukandupidippu by C. V. Karthik Narayan was published in 2009.

In 1843, all the banks were merged to form the Bank of Madras. The Bank of Madras had branches in all the presidency's major cities and princely states including Coimbatore, Mangalore, Calicut, Alleppy, Cocanada, Guntur, Masulipatnam, Ootacamund, Negapataam, Tuticorin, Bangalore, Cochin and Colombo in Ceylon. In 1921, the Bank of Madras merged with the Bank of Bombay and the Bank of Bengal to form the Imperial Bank of India.

A Public Works Department was initiated by Lord Dalhousie in 1852 and subsequently in 1855 an East coast canal was constructed for the purpose of easy navigation. Roadways were handled by the Public Works Secretariat which was under the control of the member of the Governor's Executive Council. The principal highways of the Presidency were the Madras-Calcutta road, the Madras-Travancore road and the Madras-Calicut road.

Sir Sonti Venkata Ramamurthy KCIE (1 August 1888 - 19 January 1964) was an Indian civil servant who served as Chief Secretary to the Government of Madras Presidency from 1939 to 1943 and as advisor to the Madras government from 1941 to 1945. He was the first Indian to be appointed Chief Secretary of Madras. Ramamurthy also acted as the Governor of Bombay Presidency from 19 May 1947 to 30 May 1947.

The Fort Church, Bangalore was amongst the 15 churches built by the Government of Madras, before 1833, when there were no special rules with regards to building churches. The Military board of the Madras Army approved the construction. The Church raised in 1807 was for the use of the British troops posted in the Bangalore Fort. The Fort Church, Bangalore was visited by Bishop Turner, travelling from Madras to Bangalore.

The Anna University Satellite, or ANUSAT was an Indian student research microsatellite designed, developed & integrated at Aerospace Engineering, Madras Institute of Technology (MIT), Chromepet, Anna University. Students and faculties of Madras Institute of Technology and College of Engineering, Guindy were involved in the design of ANUSAT.The director of the ANUSAT was Dr. P. Dhanraj, CASR, Madras Institute of Technology, Chromepet. It carries an amateur radio and technology demonstration experiments.

Krishnan Nair was born in 1870 in the Mannath family of landlords from the Malabar district of Madras Presidency. Krishnan Nair had his schooling in Malabar district and higher education at the Government College, Calcutta and Madras Christian College. Krishnan Nair studied law at the Madras Law College before enrolling as a lawyer. At a young age, he joined the Indian National Congress and participated in its meetings.

He served as deputy adjutant-general of the Madras army during the Siege of Seringapatam. Following this he was appointed adjutant-general and gazetted a lieutenant- colonel on 29 November 1797. Close founded the Madras military fund and promoted the formation of a permanent police committee to improve the law and order of Madras. He was then posted to deal with the Mysore rulers drafting treaties with them.

The Government General Hospital was established on 16 November 1664 to treat soldiers of the British East India Company. Mary Scharlieb graduated from Madras Medical College in 1878. In 1996, when the metropolis of Madras was renamed as Chennai, the college was renamed the Chennai Medical College. It was later re-renamed back to the Madras Medical College since the college was known worldwide by the older name.

He sincerely believed that the main aim of the Indian National Congress was to unite the peoples of India into a strong nation. He was the first Muslim Sheriff of Madras and was appointed as such in 1896. He was nominated to the Madras Legislative Council, in 1900. He was nominated to the Imperial Legislative Council on 19 December 1903 as a non-official member representing the Madras Provinces.

Alaganan was born in 1925 and hailed from a planting family in Bodinayakkanur. He completed his schooling at S. Thomas' College, Ceylon, and graduated from the Madras Christian College. An all-rounder who batted in the middle-order, Alaganan represented Madras in six first-class matches between 1946 and 1955. He was the captain of the Madras team that won its maiden Ranji Trophy tile in 1954–55.

Captain Henry Bullock was intended to sail United Kingdom but then Captain George Richardson replaced him and sailed from the Downs on 15 March 1802, bound for Madras and Bengal. United Kingdom reached Madras on 10 July and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 27 July. She left Diamond Harbour on 15 January 1803 and left Saugor on 9 February. She reached Madras on 25 February and left on 9 May.

Captain Cumine sailed from The Downs on 14 March 1802, bound for Madras and Bengal. Bengal reached Madras on 24 June and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 4 July. Homeward bound she was at Saugor on 17 September, Madras on 7 October, and Colombo on 10 November. She reached St Helena on 27 January 1803, and left on 19 February together with some other Indiamen and under escort by .

Krishna Rau joined the Indian National Congress and was elected to the Madras Corporation in 1930. He served as member of the corporation from 1930 to 1948 serving as chairman of the Health, Taxation and Finance Committee. In 1947, he was nominated mayor of Madras and served from 1947 to 1948. Krishna Rau served as Member of the Legislative Assembly of Madras state (representing the Harbour constituency during 1952-61).

He joined Indian Civil Services in November 1921 and was posted as Sub-Collector at Madras. He later on served as Joint Magistrate and District and Session Judge till February 1943 when he was appointed Additional Judge of the Madras High Court. In September 1945 he was confirmed as a Judge of Madras High Court. Justice Shahabuddin was appointed as a Judge of Dhaka High Court after Partition.

Robert Orr Campbell (1815–1892) was a Scottish businessman in Madras. He was the son of Alexander Campbell of Barnhill and his wife Fanny, daughter of Robert Orr. He served as a non-official member of the Madras Legislative Council from 1861 to 1865. He was a partner in the British firm of Binny and Co. and served as the President of the Madras Chamber of Commerce from 1854 to 1856.

Ephrem de Nevers (between 1607 and 1610 - 13 October 1695) was a native of Nevers, France. He was a Capuchin Franciscan priest and the first Christian missionary in Madras (Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India. De Nevers founded the first Christian mission in Madras on June 8, 1642, and was appointed the first Prefect Apostolic of Madras Capuchin Mission. Initially, it was known under the name the Apostolic Prefecture of Fort St. George.

The Madras Race Club was officially constituted in 1837. The club functioned till 1875, when the Prince of Wales Edward VII visited Madras. Racing again went through a tough phase owing to financial reasons. Finally, in 1887, the club was revived. A balance of 11 rupees, 13 annas and 12 paise was carried forward to a new club called Madras Race Club with 50 members in January 1896.

Marjoribanks served in Madras as Assistant Collector and Magistrate from 29 October 1893 to July 1901. In March 1900, he was appointed Officiating Under-Secretary of the Revenue Department. He served as a member on the Board of Revue and the Commissioner of Salt and Excise, Madras. He also served as the Home member in the executive council of the Governor of Madras, under George Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen.

Later in 1912, disaffected non-Brahmin members of the bureaucracy like Saravana Pillai, G. Veerasamy Naidu, Doraiswami Naidu and S. Narayanaswamy Naidu established the "Madras United League" with C. Natesa Mudaliar as Secretary. The league restricted itself to social activities and distanced itself from contemporary politics. On 1 October 1912, the league was reorganised and renamed as the "Madras Dravidian Association". The association opened many branches in Madras city.

Captain Dixon Meadows left Portsmouth on 1 March 1802, bound for Madras and Bengal. Baring reached Madeira on 14 March and Madras on 5 July, and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 17 July. For her return voyage, she passed Saugor on 12 January 1803, reached Madras on 13 March, St Helena on 8 August, and Cork, Ireland, on 1 December. She arrived at Long Reach on 15 December.

The church was officially consecrated on St. Matthias day in 1842 by the officiating Bishop Spencer of Madras. On 1 March 1855, the Madras Parental Academic Institution and Doveton College were established at Vepery within the local limits of the then city of Madras. The surrounding area of Doveton acquired its name after Capt. John Doveton, who served as a captain commandant of the Seventh Regiment of Infantry.

After 1947 he focused on the development of Madurai district and Theni town. He was a member of the 1957 Madras State Legislative Assembly. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an Indian National Congress candidate from Theni (State Assembly Constituency) in 1957 election.1957 Madras State Election Results, Election Commission of India He was elected to the Madras legislative council in 1964 from the local government constituency.

Madras is an unincorporated community in Coweta County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.

In India, this is sourced from: Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madras, Madhya Pradesh and Chhota Nagpur.

Basudev was elected mayor of Madras on May 1940 and served till May 1941.

The next year, the Government Lord Napier nominated him to the Madras Legislative Council.

This is a list of notable alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

The second division comprised the 49th Regiment, Madras Sappers and Miners, and Bengal Volunteers.

Abbottabad: The Baloch Regimental Centre.Phythian-Adams, Lt Col EG. (1943). Madras Infantry 1748-1943.

In 1879, he set sail to India to practice in the Madras High Court.

After Madras returned to Malta she was paid off and laid up at Valletta.

West Bengal News. NewKerala. 22 April 2014. Retrieved 2014-06-02. (formerly Madras), India.

Arabic, Arwi and Persian in Sarandib and Tamil Nadu. Madras: Imāmul 'Arūs Trust, 1993.

Renault India formed a partnership with Renault Duster and John Abraham's movie ‘Madras Café’.

Thornton also composed dispatches that concerned public works for the Bombay, Madras, Bengal presidencies.

During the recent war in Kosovo, 16 madras- ants were martyr on the battlefield.

In 1935, Usman became the first Indian President of the Rotary Club of Madras.

Varadachariar was awarded the Sangeetha Kalanidhi by Madras Music Academy in the year 1932.

But he accepted the command of his Lord and proceeded to Madras by train.

200px The swimming competition at the 1995 South Asian Federation Games in Madras, India.

A bust of Rajagopalachari is present in the hall of the Madras Legislative Council.

He paid the amount in two instalments and got back his sons from Madras.

Madras (India : State). Record Office. (1957). Tanjore District Handbook, p. 51. Superintendent Government Press.

Krishnaswamy Iyer died in Madras, on 28 December 1911 at the age of 48.

The original specimens were found in the city of Madras, India, and surrounding areas.

James Dewar Bourdillon (1811–1883), was a British civil servant in Madras (now Chennai).

She was married to Kozhipurath Madhava Menon, minister representing Malabar region in Madras presidency.

He was acclaimed for his rhetoric and was one of the leading politicians of the Indian National Congress from the Madras Presidency, alongside S. Srinivasa Iyengar, C. Rajagopalachari and T. Prakasam. Satyamurti is regarded as the mentor of K. Kamaraj, Chief Minister of Madras state from 1954 to 1962. Born in 1887 in Thirumayam in the princely state of Pudukkottai, Satyamurti studied at the Maharajah's College, Madras Christian College and the Madras Law College. After practising as a lawyer for some time, Satyamurti entered politics at the suggestion of S. Srinivasa Iyengar, a leading lawyer and politician, who would later become his mentor.

In 1761, British East India Company forces invaded Pondicherry, which was then a French colony, and acquired a printing press. When the spoils of war were brought to Madras the printing press was passed on to Fabricius to aid his missionary work as well to be used for East India company's publication. Thus the first printing press in Madras was born under Fabricius in 1761. Initially Fabricius had problems with importing paper for his press from Europe, but the problem was sorted with Indians in Madras starting to manufacture their own paper leading to first paper industry in Madras.

Madras Museum In 1854, Edward Green Balfour, the then director of the Government Central Museum at Madras, persuaded the Nawab of the Carnatic to donate his entire animal collection to the museum. This attracted large crowds and became the nucleus of the Madras Zoo, which was founded in 1855. Balfour started the zoo on the museum premises, and a year later it had over 300 animals, including mammals, birds and reptiles. It was later transferred to the Madras Corporation and shifted to People's Park near Chennai Central railway station at Park Town in 1861, as it was growing.

Because Madras served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty authorised in 1850 to all surviving claimants. Charles Marsh Schomberg received promotion to post captain on 6 August 1803 and took command of Madras, then serving as a guard ship at Malta. In February 1807 Madras served as a storeship in Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth's Dardanelles Operation. Madras was in the Rear or Third Division, commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Sidney Smith.

In 1936, there was an agreement between Governments of Madras and Mysore, followed up by an agreement between Governments of Madras and Hyderabad in 1938. However, due to some differences in interpretation of the agreement between Governments of Madras and Hyderabad no substantial progress was made in implementation of the project. It was in a conference between the Governments of Madras and Hyderabad held on 26 June 1944, that a final decision was arrived at on the allocation of waters as well as on taking up the project jointly and sharing the cost equally between the two States.

The Battle of Madras or Fall of Madras took place in September 1746 during the War of the Austrian Succession when a French force attacked and captured the city of Madras from its British garrison. French forces occupied Madras until the end of hostilities when it was exchanged for the British conquest of Louisbourg in North America as part of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. One of the British defenders, Robert Clive made his name by escaping from the French captors and carrying news of the city's fall to his superiors at Fort St David.

The Madras Presidency, or the Presidency of Fort St. George, and also known as Madras Province, 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 state of Andhra Pradesh, and parts of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, Odisha and the union territory of Lakshadweep. The city of Madras was the winter capital of the Presidency and Ootacamund or Ooty, the summer capital. The Island of Ceylon was a part of Madras Presidency from 1793 to 1798 when it was created a Crown colony.

The South Indians in Fiji are mainly descendants of the 15,132 contract labourers who were brought to Fiji between 1903 and 1916. This represents about 25% out of a total of 60,965 contract labourers who were brought to Fiji between 1879 and 1916. They were forced in to ships from Madras and were mainly recruited in the districts of North Arcot, Madras, Krishna, Godavari, Visakhapatnam, Tanjore, Malabar and Coimbatore. More than half of the labourers from South India were recruited from North Arcot and Madras, but most of those recruited in Madras were originally from North Arcot and Chingleput.

The Army of the Madras Presidency remained almost unaffected by the Indian Rebellion of 1857. By contrast with the larger Bengal Army where all but twelve (out of eighty-four) infantry and cavalry regiments either mutinied or were disbanded, all fifty-two regiments of Madras Native Infantry remained unaffected and passed into the new Indian Army when direct British Crown rule replaced that of the Honourable East India Company.Mason, p. 349 Four regiments of Madras Light Cavalry and the Madras Artillery batteries did however disappear in the post-1858 reorganisation of all three of the Presidency Armies.

The Pophams Broadway at Madras was once a fine road bisecting George Town into Peddanaickenpet and Muthialpet. Before, it was a road, it was a ditch in the suburb called Atta Pallam, and was owned by Stephen Popham, former MP of the British Parliament and later Advocate General at Calcutta, who moved to Madras in 1778. Popham is credited with setting up the Madras Police in 1782. At that time, the lands of the present Madras United Club, General Hospital and Park Town Post Office was a hill called Hoggs Hill (called as Narimedu or 'mound of foxes' by the natives).

From 1817 to 1862, the Supreme Court of Madras was situated in a building opposite the Chennai Beach railway station. From 1862 to 1892, the High Court was also housed in that building. The present buildings were officially inaugurated on 12 July 1892, when the then Madras Governor, Beilby, Baron Wenlock, handed over the key to the then Chief Justice Sir Arthur Collins. The statue of Manuneedhi Cholan in the Madras High Court premises British India's three presidency towns of Madras (Chennai), Bombay (Mumbai), and Calcutta (Kolkata) were each granted a High Court by letters patent dated 26 June 1862.

In 1878, he was promoted as the Secretary in the public works department at Madras, and was promoted substantive colonel on 30 December. He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath on 25 July 1879, and also commanded the Royal Engineers on the advance from Kandahar to Kabul during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. For about five years he was in Madras where became a member of the legislative council in Madras and was elected as a Fellow of the Madras University. He also helped in the creation and improvements of the Marina, the gardens and the Government House grounds.

The Sheriff of Madras was an apolitical titular position of authority bestowed for one year on a prominent citizen of Madras. The post was abolished in 1998. The position of Sheriff of Madras was created in the Madras Charter of 1726 which came into force on 17 August 1727. As the executive arm of the Jurisdiction the Sheriff was sworn in for a period of one year to carry out such duties as the summoning of people to the High Court, the provision of jurors, the attaching and sealing of properties and, if required, the arranging of their auction.

The Tamil-speaking area of Kerala (present day Kanyakumari district) and Shenkottah taluk were added to Madras State. According to the new Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order 1956, made by the Delimitation Commission of India under the provisions of the State Reorganisation Act, 1956, the strength of the Madras Legislative Assembly was increased to 205. The 1957 elections were conducted for these 205 seats. In 1959, as result of The Andhra Pradesh and Madras (Alteration of Boundaries) Act 1959, one member from the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly was allotted to Madras increasing its Legislative Assembly strength to 206.

According to the 'List of Mysore Residency records, from the year 1880-1947', the Bangalore East Railway Station was constructed in 1906, on the Bangalore- Madras Railway Line. At that time, the trains from Madras terminated at the Bangalore Cantonment Railway Station, in Bangalore Civil and Military Station which was controlled by the British Madras Presidency. The Bangalore City station in the Bangalore Pete (under the control of the Maharaja of Mysore), was used to connect to Mysore State. The railway line has existed since starting operations in 1864, with the launch of the Bangalore Cantonment - Jolarpettai train services by the Madras Railway.

Mudaliar was known for his philanthropic activities in Madras Presidency. He established choultries at Park Town near Central railway station and one at Thirukazugukundram in memory of his first wife Ranee Thyal Nayagi Ammal hospitals in Madras Royapuram,Thirukazhgukundram, Cuddalore and Kanchipuram apart from a library in Madras He built a child-care hospital in Cuddalore which is presently being maintained by the Cuddalore municipality. In 1884, Mudaliar started a choultry near Chennai Central railway station. This Choultry survived till the 1969s latter taken over by AG &OT; of Madras High Court and the charities are continuing till today.

Kibble was born in Madras, in the Madras Presidency of British India, on 23 December 1932. He was the son of the statistician Walter F. Kibble, and the grandson of William Bannerman, an officer in the Indian Medical Service, and the author Helen Bannerman. His father was a math professor at Madras Christian College, and Dr. Kibble grew up playing on the grounds of the college and solving math puzzles his father gave him. He was educated at Doveton Corrie School in Madras and then in Edinburgh, Scotland, at Melville College and at the University of Edinburgh.

The regiment was re-raised as the 2nd Madras (European) Regiment in 1839 and re-designated the 2nd Madras (European) Light Infantry in 1842. It was deployed to Burma in 1853 during the Second Anglo-Burmese War and then saw action in India in 1857 during the Indian Rebellion. After the Crown took control of the Presidency armies in the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion, the regiment became the 2nd Madras Light Infantry in November 1859. It was then renumbered as the 105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry) on transfer to the British Army in September 1862.

Chakravarthi Vijayaraghava Narasimhan MBE, ICS (21 May 1915, Madras, India - 2 November 2003, Chennai, IndiaC.V. Narasimhan passes away) was an Indian Civil Service officer and a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving twenty-two years in the UN. Born in Madras, he was educated at St. Joseph's College, Tiruchi, the University of Madras and Oxford University. He entered the Indian Civil Service in September 1937. As a Deputy Secretary in the Development Department of the Madras Government, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1946 New Year Honours.

In Dharavi, Prakash's sister Shilpa comes across Madras a poor funeral dancer who is a lookalike of Romeo and convinces him to impersonate Romeo to clear her brother's name as well as to find the real perpetrator of the crime. After getting thrown off the cliff, Romeo is taken in by tribals living in the hills and manages to survive. Upon finding Madras impersonating him, Romeo realises that Madras is his twin brother long presumed dead, using this to his advantage he starts taking revenge on Sathyamoorthy. Meanwhile, Madras and Shilpa fall in love with each other.

The highest score for Ceylon/Sri Lanka is 212 by Ievers Gunasekera in 1958-59,Ceylon Cricket Association v Madras 1958-59 and the highest for Madras/Tamil Nadu is 179 by Michael Dalvi in 1974-75.Tamil Nadu v Sri Lanka 1974-75 The best innings figures for Ceylon/Sri Lanka are 8 for 43 by Lalith Kaluperuma in 1975-76,Sri Lanka Board President's XI v Tamil Nadu 1975-76 and the best for Madras/Tamil Nadu are 8 for 60 by V.V. Kumar in 1957-58.Madras v Ceylon 1957-58 The best match figures for Ceylon/Sri Lanka are 11 for 43 (6 for 17 and 5 for 26) by John Arenhold in 1956-57,Ceylon Cricket Association v Madras 1956-57 and the best for Madras/Tamil Nadu are 12 for 108 (4 for 48 and 8 for 60) by V.V. Kumar in 1957-58. Dalvi, A. C. M. Lafir and Duleep Mendis have scored two centuries.

Manship reached Madras on 11 September, and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 15 October. Homeward bound, she was at Cox'x Island on 13 December and Saugor on 19 February 1796. She reached Madras on 3 March and St Helena on 24 May.

Captain Jacob Cowles left the Downs on 3 April 1815, bound for Madras and Bengal. She reached Madeira on 18 April and Madras on 6 August. She arrived at Calcutta on 8 September. Homeward bound, Lord Eldon passed Saugor on 26 November.

The British went on to capture Saint Vincent and Grenada.In 1818 Timins purchased Hilfield Castle. EIC voyage #6 (1797-1798): Captain Colnett sailed from Portsmouth on 6 April 1797, bound for Madras and Bengal. King George arrived at Madras on 27 July.

"Plant ready to be harvested at MCC farm" Among his varied interests is the taxonomy of tropical plants, especially flora of Chennai, then Madras. He is perhaps best known for his book The flowering plants of Madras City and its immediate neighbourhood.

He had a brief political career during 1969–1975. He joined the Indian National Congress in 1969. He became the General Secretary of Law College Student Congress in the Madras Law College. Later he became the Vice-President of Youth Congress in Madras.

The 45th Filmfare Awards South ceremony honouring the winners and nominees of the best of South Indian cinema films released 1997, is an event that was held at the Mammoth Kamraj Hall, Madras 13 June 1998.The awards were distributed at Madras.

She then visited Masulipatam (21 August), and Coringa (31 August), before returning to Madras on 16 September. Homeward bound, Phoenix was part of a convoy that departed Madras on 25 October. provided the escort for the nine East Indiamen of the convoy.

EIC voyage #4 (1792–1790): Captain Hays sailed from the Downs on 17 January 1792 bound for Madras and China. Lord Macartney reached Madras on 10 June, Penang on 30 July, and Malacca on 30 August. She arrived at Whampoa on 27 September.

Soundararajan grew up in Madras and was a student at Padma Seshadri High School in Nungambakkam in Madras. In 1989, he attended the prestigious Research Science Institute. He represented India at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1991 and won a Silver Medal.

Petrie was a Member of Council in Madras in the 1790s, and acted for three months as Governor of Madras in 1807.Buckland, C. E., Dictionary of Indian biography, 1906 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in November 1795.

After graduating from high school, he was admitted to Madras Christian College in Madras (present day Chennai) where he completed his Intermediate studies. Influenced by the Indian freedom struggle and Mahatma Gandhi, he decided not to pursue his B.A and joined politics instead.

Raman was born on 3 October 1932 in Madras and had his schooling at Church Park. On completion of his schooling, Raman graduated in Physics from Loyola College and studied law at Madras Law College completing his studies with a gold medal.

Thereafter, he entered the traditional gurukula system, being tutored in Madras by M. Balamuralikrishna for nearly five years. The Madras Music Academy and Sangeet Natak Akademi provided him with merit scholarships. While developing his musical talent, Raghavan also graduated in science and engineering.

Google, 21 November 2012. Web. 14 August 2013. . Suryaprakash holds a master's degree in Carnatic music from Madras University. He was also awarded the doctorate degree in March 2020 by Madras University for his thesis titled "Structured and Systematic Approach to Manodharma Sangeetham".

He sailed from Portsmouth on 27 June 1796, bound for Madras. Melville Castle reached the Cape of Good Hope on 19 September, and Madras on 9 January 1797. Homeward bound, she was at Trincomalle on 12 April and Simon's Bay on 12 July.

31 The French Governor of Pondicherry Dupleix authorised an attack on Madras. To gain local Indian approval for this he promised the Nawab of the Carnatic that he would hand over Madras to him once he had captured it from the British.

Basava Raju sends Gopi to the house of his friend Mangapati (Prabhakar Reddy) in Madras (now Chennai). Gopi and Chandram go to Madras. Gopi sends Chandram as Gopi to Mangapati's house. Mangapati is a rich affluent person and has a daughter Radha (Sulakshana).

Pattabhirama Rao was born in a Telugu Brahmin family at Sidhavatam in Cuddapah district in the northern part of the Madras Presidency. His father N. Ramanuja Rao was a tahsildar in the district. Pattabhirama Rao had his early education in Cuddapah and Madras.

Captain John Freeman acquired a letter of marque on 15 February 1812. He sailed from Portsmouth on 8 April, bound for Madras and Bengal. Lord Keith reached Madeira on 24 April and Madras on 17 September. She arrived at Calcutta on 4 November.

Ramaseshaiah was born to Shri Nutakki Uddande Ramaiah at Chiluvuru, Guntur district on 29 September 1897. He was educated at Presidency College and Madras Law College, Madras. Ramaseshaiah married Shrimati N. Punnamma on 14 May 1924. They had two sons and two daughters.

Jagannathan Shivashanmugam (24 February 1901 – 17 February 1975) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress. In 1938, he became the first Scheduled Caste mayor of Madras. He also served as the first speaker of the Madras Legislative Assembly after India's independence.

The Madras Club was founded on 15 May 1832 as a European men-only club. Its first President was one H. Chamier. The Adyar Club was founded in 1890. In contrast to the Madras Club, the Adyar Club gave membership to women.

Captain Hopefar Bendall was her captain for the first five, successful voyages. :Voyage #1 - Madras and Bengal; 1671/2 season. :Voyage #2 - St Helena and Bantam; 9 May 1674 – 30 June 1675. :Voyage #3 - Madras and Bengal; 8 January 1676 – 13 August 1677.

Gopalaswami Ayyangar was born on 31 March 1882 in Tanjore District Madras Presidency. He studied at the Wesley School, and at the Presidency and Law Colleges in Madras, whereafter, for a short period in 1904, he was an Assistant Professor in Pachaiyappa's College.

There were protests against retrenchment policies in the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway throughout 1931 and early 1932. On 24 October 1932, a major strike erupted in the Mechanical Workshops of the Perambur branch of the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway company.

A settlement was eventually reached when the Sheriff of Madras brokered a peace between the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway and the striking workers. The strike was called off on 8 January 1933 at the instance of Jamnadas Mehta and V. V. Giri.

Born in Madras in 1905, Krishnaswami graduated with distinction from the Presidency College, Madras in 1927 and subsequently obtained an M. A. in geology. He worked as a lecturer at the Mining and Metallurgy Institute of the Banaras Hindu University till 1929.

The Airshow of the Cascades is an annual event held in August at the Madras Municipal Airport in Central Oregon. It started in a field outside of Madras in the 1970s and draws around 10,000 people with around 150 aircraft on display.

He participated in British expeditions to Mandalay in Burma, Royapuram and Mangalore in India, Afghanistan, and finally Madras (now Chennai), where he spent the rest of his service. He was professor at Madras Medical College from 1898 until his retirement in 1919.

Two years later, on 16 August 1793, he became a lieutenant in the Madras Engineers.

Madras Mail Battling Mani is an Indian cinema artiste who worked mainly in Tamil films.

Hammick acted as the Governor of Madras from 30 March 1912 to 30 October 1912.

Peter Clark had been due to take over as captain for the Kuwait-Madras leg.

Madras on Rainy Days is a novel written by Samina Ali and published in 2004.

Saminatha Iyer unsuccessfully stood for election to the Madras Legislative Council for the Municipalities seat.

Grangea maderaspatana, commonly known as Madras carpet, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.

He served the churches in Pune, Madras, Kohima, Delhi and Jullander. He authored many books.

Jakkamma was released on 14 September 1972, and distributed by Sri Navaneetha Films in Madras.

Madras also feeds into the nearby Northgate High School. NHS' school mascot is the Cougars.

Indarbela campbelli is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in India (Madras).

He also sponsored endowments to the University of Madras to produce scientific literature in Telugu.

Alucita anemolia is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in India (Madras).

Sir Samuel Toller (1764–1821) was an English advocate-general of Madras and legal writer.

G.Rajendran founded G R Thangamaaligai[ in the shopping hub of Chennai (formerly Madras) in 1964.

Sinhakulathipati Papanarya Yatiraj Surendranath Voegeli-Arya was an Indian independence activist from the Madras Presidency.

"Indian Cricket 1995" (Compiled by P.V. Vaidyanathan), Kasturi & Sons Limited, Madras. Published in December 1995.

Madras is a town in Ehlanzeni District Municipality in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa.

Ayngaranesan was born in 1958 and educated at Jaffna Hindu College and Madras Christian College.

Vijay Nambisan graduated from IIT Madras, Chennai. He married the novelist and doctor Kavery Nambisan.

Captain William Maxwell sailed from Portsmouth on 5 March 1808, bound for Madras and Bengal.

The 64th Pioneers could trace their origins to 1758, when they were the 5th Battalion Coast Sepoys. Over the years the regiment was known by a number of different titles the 5th Carnatic Battalion 1769-1770, the 4th Carnatic Battalion 1770-1784, the 4th Madras Battalion 1784-1796, 1st Battalion, 4th Madras Native Infantry 1796-1824, the 4th Madras Native Infantry 1824-1883, the 4th Madras Native Infantry (Pioneers) 1883-1901, the 4th Madras Infantry (Pioneers) 1901-1903 and finally after the Kitchener reforms of the Indian Army when the names of the presidencies were dropped the 64th Pioneers. During World War I the regiment was part of the Mandalay Brigade in the Burma Division. After World War I the Indian Government reformed the army again moving from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments.

Lord Melville reached Madras on 10 September, and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 12 October. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 26 November. On 18 January 1812 she was at Masulipatam and Madras on 25 January. She reached St Helena on 11 May and arrived at the Downs on 21 July. EIC voyage #5 (1813-1814): Captain Crabb sailed from Torbay on 25 Mar 1813, bound for Madras and Bengal. Lord Melville was at Teneriffe on 11 April, and Johanna on 14 July. She reached Madras on 9 August and Masulipatam on 27 August. She arrived at Diamond Harbour on 9 September, and Calcutta on 11 November. Homeward bound she was at Saugor on 7 December, Madras on 25 January 1814, Colombo on 14 February, and the Cape on 25 April.

The plan for setting up a corporation in Madras was first detailed by Josiah Child, the President of the Board of Directors of the British East India Company, in a letter addressed to the factors at Madras on 28 September 1687. Three months later, Josiah Child and his deputy had an audience with James II, and as per the ensuing discussions, a Charter was issued by the king on 30 December 1687 which established the Corporation of Madras. The charter came into effect on 29 September 1688, and Nathaniel Higginson - who was then the second member of the Council of Fort St George - took office as the Mayor of Madras. Nathaniel Higginson resigned as Mayor of Madras after a short term of six months, and was succeeded by Littleton.

Thompson arrived in India in 1871 and served as Assistant Collector in the Madras Presidency from 1872 to 1882, as Head Assistant Collector from 1882 to 1885 as Sub-Collector from 1885 to 1889 and Collector from 1889 to 1895. In 1895, Thompson was appointed Resident for the Travancore and Cochin states and served from 1895 to 1897 when he was appointed to the Board of Revenue for the Madras Presidency. Thompson was nominated to the Madras Legislative Council in 1898 and served as a member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Madras from 1901 to 1906. Thomson acted as the Governor of Madras from 30 April 1904 to 13 December 1904 in the absence of Oliver Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill who was selected to officiate temporarily as the Viceroy of India.

G.Clouzier (ed.), Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier,...: qu'il a fait en... Paris, 1676, p. 138-140 Ephrem de Nevers returned to his mission of Madras and served with a great missionary spirit and brought many souls to the Christian faith. In an Anglican colony, Father Ephrem lade a strong foundation for a Catholic faith in spite of the oppositions from the Anglican clergy. He founded a new church dedicated to Our Lady of Angels for the local converts at Armenian street in 1658, (this Capuchin church of St. Mary's served as the cathedral of Madras archdiocese from 1886-1952,today, St.Mary's Co-Cathedral of Madras-Mylapore archdioceseArulappa R, An Outline of The History of the Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore, San Thome, Madras, 1986, p. 184.

Minakshi was born in Madras on 12 September 1905 to Cadambi Balakrishnan, a bench clerk in the Madras High Court and his wife, Mangalammal. Balakrishnan died when Minakshi was young and Mangalammal took care of the family. Minakshi was interested in history from an early age and visited historic sites as Mannargudi, Pudukkottai, Villuppuram and Kanchipuram. On completion of her schooling Minakshi joined the Women's Christian College in Madras, graduating in 1929.

Palanki Venkata Ramachandra Murthi is an author of stories and books in Telugu for children (1909–2005). Palanki Venkata Ramachandra Murthi was born in 1909 in Ravikampaadu village in East Godavari district, a part of the then Madras State in South India. He had his early education in Kakinada and later in Madras city (now known as Chennai). After securing a degree from the Presidency College, he joined the Madras Central Cooperative Land Mortgage Bank.

He joined Madras Telephones later, in 1963, where he continued to work until his retirement in May, 2002. Working at Madras Telephones, allowed him to pursue his interest in fine arts and literature. One of his favorite pastimes included browsing the Moor Market, near the Madras Central Railway Station, which used to be a popular hangout of literary and art aficionados where used books from around the world could be bought at a bargain.

1995 - Received the title Kalaimamani from the Government of Tamil Nadu. Kum. J Jayalalitha gave away the award. 1993 - Received the Flute Mali award of the Music Academy, Madras, from Dr Raja Ramanna 1990 - Received the Nyapati Ranganayakammal Award for Junior Flautists of the Music Academy, Madras, from Smt ML Vasanthakumari. 1990 - Received the Flautist award and Main Artist award of the Youth Association for Classical Music, Madras from Sri DK Jayaraman.

Waller and Albatross had on 23 November 1800 captured Adèle. Shortly after Albatross arrived at Madras Roads, the New Madras Insurance Company presented Waller with an honour sword, and the Old Madras Insurance Company presented him with a piece of plate, each worth £200, as a reward for the service he had rendered by this capture and that of Gloire."Chronicle for April 1801", Asiatic Annual Review, Vol. 3, pp.62-63.

This sum was equally divided between the Parental Academy at Calcutta, the name of which was then changed to Doveton college and another founded in Madras, the Doveton Protestant College. Peter Carstairs was the Trustee and sole surviving executor of the Last Will and Testament of John Doveton. Peter Carstairs was based in Madras and was a merchant and an agent. He was Chairman of the first Appointed Trustees of the Madras Protestant College Trust.

With the Madras Railway Company reconstituting itself in 1849, the plans for a railway line in the south was revived further to the efforts by the mercantile community of Madras Presidency, which lobbied for rail connectivity. Work on the southern line began in 1853 and the railway line was extended from Royapuram (Madras) to Arcot, then titular capital of the Nawab of the Carnatic (the present day Walajapet, near Ranipet in Tamil Nadu).

Ramachandra Rao was born in Tanjore in 1825 in a Deshastha Brahmin family which traced its origins to Bijapur. After brief initial education, Ramachandra Rao moved to Madras in 1840 and caught the attention of Major Crisp, translator to the Madras government, who trained him in calculation and computation and employed Rao as his private writer from August 1840 to March 1841. Later, through Crisp's recommendation, Ramachandra Rao was appointed Superintendent of the Madras observatory.

Before moving to Madras he used to act in plays which was conducted in temple festival in nearby temple town Sivanmalai where he saw K. B. Sundarambal and her brother. They insisted him to join cinema and told him to come to Madras. So he moved to Madras with the aim of joining cinema; he expressed his desire to her and Sundarambal sent him to Ellis R. Dungan with a recommendation letter.

From 1838, he devoted much of his time in revisions for mission press and translation activities. He published Pilgrim's Progress, wrote hymns and tracts that also included Social Hymns and Sacred Songs. In 1852, he compiled and published a Tamil dictionary and an English-Tamil dictionary. He also spent considerable time at Madras, a mission station of American Madras Mission, at the behest of Bible Society in Madras for the revision of Scriptures.

Captain William Ward Farrer sailed from the Downs on 3 October 1796, bound for Madras and Amboina. Bellona reached Madras on 12 February 1797, Trincomalee on 11 March, and Pondicherry on 21 March. She returned to Madras on 26 March, reached Malacca on 6 June, and arrived at Amboina on 19 August. She left Amboina on 1 January 1798, reached the Cape on 17 March, St Helena on 15 April, and Cork on 25 June.

Molony arrived in India in 1900 and was appointed Assistant Collector and Magistrate in the Madras Presidency and later rose to become District Collector. From 1908 to 1910, Molony served as Assistant Political Agent to the state of Banganapalle. Molony was the Census Commissioner for the Madras Presidency during the 1911 India census. Molony served as Presidency and Mayor of the Madras Corporation from 1914 to 1919 and City Commissioner in 1920.

Rao Bahadur Sir Annepu Parasuramdas Patro KCIE (1875 or 1876–1946) was an Indian politician, zamindar and education minister in the erstwhile Madras Presidency. Patro was born in a rich and powerful family of Berhampur, Madras Presidency. He did his schooling in Berhampur and graduated in law from Madras Christian College. Patro actively participated in the Odia Movement and was a member of the Indian National Congress and later, the Justice Party.

She then stopped at Madras on 7 October and Trincomalee on 18 October. She reached the Cape of Good Hope on 30 December and St Helena on 23 January 1807. She arrived at The Downs on 12 April. EIC voyage #2 (1808-1809): Captain Ramsden sailed from Portsmouth on 9 February 1808, bound for St Helena and Madras. Phoenix reached St Helena on 19 April, the Cape on 31 May, and Madras on 3 August.

In 1914, Pentland invited the Scottish botanist and architect Patrick Geddes to conduct an exhibition on town-planning in Madras city. He reached Madras on 20 December 1914 after journeying overland from Calcutta through Vizagapatam, Guntur and Bellary.Geddes, Pg 256 Pentland had been interacting with Geddes and was fascinated with his models since 1890.Lady Pentland, Pg 213 Geddes had prepared for a detailed exhibition at Madras with a series of illustrations and maps.

Captain Peter Foubister received a letter of marque on 20 December 1796. Lloyd's Register for 1797 gives the captain's name as "Forbuster" and her trade as London-Jamaica, changing to London-India. Foubister sailed Princess Royal from Falmouth on 16 February 1797, bound for Madras and Bengal. She reached the Cape on 16 May and arrived at Madras on 11 July. She was at Pondicherry on 11 August, and then returned to Madras 16 August.

Some Madras Leaders, Pg 12 He was described as frank and generousSome Madras Leaders, Pg 13 and having brought a fresh and young look to his political ideas. He was known for making brave and outspoken comments on the Governor or Government officials.Some Madras Leaders, Pg 14 A contemporary remarks that Iyengar's opinions were as clear cut as his legal arguments. His proficiency in the legal profession was supposedly noticeable right from his early days.

The first idea of rail link from Tirunelveli to Kollam which was the trading capital of the Travancore Kingdom was conceived in 1873. The line was sanctioned by the Madras Presidency in 1899 and the survey was completed in 1900.The railway line was built jointly by South Indian railway, Travancore state and Madras Presidency.It was the ruler's desire to create a rail link between Kollam, the then commercial capital of his State and Madras.

He thus said, 'Let them entrust India to God or, in modem parlance, to anarchy'. While underground he was invited for the South Indian Congress leaders meeting at Madras. Latchanna and Killi Appala Naidu started proceeding to Madras. A message about this was sent by Andhra Congress dictator Sampath Kumar through Jayanthi Dharma Teja, which led to the arrest of Latchanna at Rajahmundry in 1943 while he was on his way to Madras.

As was the custom for bright students from landed families those days, Menon had to travel to Madras city and join the Madras Christian College for his higher studies. There, he completed his MA in Mathematics and was awarded a scholarship to pursue research under the guidance of Prof R Vaidyanathaswamy. In 1941, the University of Madras awarded him a MSc Degree with a thesis entitled "Contributions to the theory of multiplicative arithmetic functions".

The British Indiamen then sailed on, directly, or indirectly, to India. Valentine reached Madras on 18 August, and arrived at Kedgeree on 28 September. She returned to Madras on 23 November, was at Negapatam on 23 December, Madras again on 22 January 1782, and Kedgeree on 22 February. Homeward bound, she was at 10 Apr Barrabulla (a sandbank that forms near Kedgeree) on 12 April, and reached St Helena on 12 September.

Captain Thomas Wall sailed from The Downs on 17 January 1786, bound for Madras and China. Valentine reached São Tiago on 16 February, and Madras on 26 May. She left Madras on 24 July, reached Malacca on 28 August, and arrived at Whampoa anchorage on 21 September. Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 4 February 1787, reached St Helena on 23 May, and arrived at the Downs on 20 July.

The family moved to Chicacole and opened a school for its native people - they also performed the first converted[native] Christian marriage at Chicacole. In March 1837, he was asked by Malcom to work among the English people in Madras(present Chennai) and with a branch of "Maulmein Church" located over there. While at Madras, he shuttled between Bellary and baptized non-Telugu speaking locals over there in Bellary and also in Madras.

During his tenure, he inaugurated the famous 'Grant Medical College' in Bombay (1846 AD) one of the first three Medical Colleges in India teaching the western medical sciences. The other two being, the Medical College, Bengal (1835 AD) and Madras Medical College (Formerly Madras Medical School in 1835 and later, Madras Medical College in 1850 AD). The hospital for the Grant Medical College, the Jamshedji Jijiboy Hospital was constructed by the Parsee Trust beforehand.

Maitreyan was born to Indian independence activist K. R. Vasudevan and his wife Manga Vasudevan on 21 November 1955 in a Vadagalai Iyengar family. He had his schooling in Madras and graduated in medicine from the Government Medical College, Nagpur. On completion of his graduation, Maitreyan pursued his M. D. in Medical Oncology from the Madras Medical College and did his D. M. in Medical Oncology from the Cancer Institute, Madras University.

Lang was commissioned into the Madras European Regiment. He commanded a battalion at the Siege of Madura in 1763 and then, having been promoted to lieutenant-colonel, he served in the First Anglo-Mysore War. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army in 1777, following the suspension of James Stuart, and commanded the Army at Vellore. With the rank of lieutenant general he commanded the Madras Army again between 1783 and 1785.

While serving as Lieutenant- Governor of Transvaal, Lawley was appointed Governor of Madras on 28 December 1905 at a monthly pay of Rs. 10,000. He took office on 28 March 1906 succeeding The Lord Ampthill. Lawley's eldest brother Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock had also served as the Governor of Madras from 1891 to 1896. The Madras Legislative Council was completely reformed according to the Indian Councils Act 1909 and enlarged during his time.

Sir Cecil Fabian Brackenbury KCIE CSI (13 March 1881 – 29 September 1958) was a civil servant and bureaucrat who served as Chief Secretary of the Madras Presidency from 1935 to 1939. Brackenbury was Chief Secretary when the first elections were held in the Madras Presidency as per the Government of India Act, 1935 and had a warm and friendly relationship with C. Rajagopalachari, the Premier of Madras Presidency from 1937 to 1939.

After India's independence in 1947, the former Madras Presidency of British India became India's Madras State. In 1953, the northern districts of Madras state, including the Godavari district, became the new state of Andhra. Yanam was relinquished by the French in 1954, but one condition of the cession treaty was the retention of the district's separate and distinct identity, which also applied to the other South Indian enclaves constituting today's Puducherry state.

Arulappa was ordained as a priest on 6 May 1950 by Bishop Ignatius Glennie, s.j. the then Bishop of Trincomalee.Catholic Hierarchy, Archbishop Arulappa He joined the faculty of the Madras Archdiocesan Minor & Major Seminaries in Madras and taught Latin and Philosophy besides being the Rector of the Seminary. Arulappa also served as a parish priest in two parishes and was also principal of St. Joseph's Anglo- Indian Boys' High School in Madras.

Madras motor neuron disease is a rare motor neuron disease originating in South India. Two other forms of the disease have been found, Familial Madras Motor Neuron Disease (FMMND) and the variant Madras Motor Neuron Disease (MMNDV). The symptoms of MMND include weakness in the arms and legs, loss of vision, and deafness. Most affected individuals are diagnosed by the age of 15 and occurs at the same frequency in males and females.

Indian administrative divisions, as of 1951 The first legislative assembly Election to the Madras state on the basis of universal adult suffrage was held in March 1952. This was the first election held in Madras state after the Indian Independence. This election was officially known as 1951 Madras State Election, even though through delays, actual voting didn't take place until early 1952. No single party obtained a simple majority to form an independent Government.

With the opening of the Egmore Railway Station, plans were first made of linking Madras Central and Egmore, which was later dropped. The company operated a suburban electric train service for Madras city from May 1931 onwards in the Madras Beach-Tambaram section. In 1959, additional changes were made to the station. Electrification of the lines at the station began in 1979, when the section up to Gummidipoondi was electrified on 13 April 1979.

The Kingdom of Travancore itself was a princely state under the Madras Presidency, then. Ramakrishna Pillai's family joined him later once he moved to a rented house in Madras. Editorships of newspapers like Kochi and Malabar came to be offered to him during the time, but he chose to stay in Madras. Many nationalists and Indian newspapers reacted to the arrest and banishment of Ramakrishna Pillai and the banning of the paper.

A.) and B. A. in Madras Presidency College from 1916-1920 and obtained a B. L. degree (1920-1922) from Madras Law College. Some of the students studying in various other faculties who were his hostel- mates during his time in Madras stayed in touch with him and would also become famous: M. Bhaktavatsalam, Avinashilingam Chettiar, Adavi Baapiraju, Koka Subba Rao, Yellapragada Subbarow, Velidandla Hanumantha Rao, and Kanuri Lakshmana Rao, to mention a few.

Thus it is improbable that the area was ever called Chennai. Instead, being the gateway of trade and the centre of the economy of the region, the English settlement and their fort of 1639–40, which was the basis for the presently named city of Chennai, was likely called Madras as well by the rest of India. The DMK renamed Madras to Chennai as DMK founder Anna renamed Madras State as Tamil Nadu.

V. K. Ramaswami Mudaliar was an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly from Uthiramerur constituency as an Indian National Congress candidate in 1952 election, and as an Independent candidate in 1957 election.1951/52 Madras State Election Results, Election Commission of India1957 Madras State Election Results, Election Commission of India He set up Madras labour union along with B.P.Wadia.

Captain Murray sailed from Portsmouth on 28 April, bound for Madras and Bengal. she was at Madeira on 8 May, reached Madras on 15 September, and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 22 October. Homeward bound she was at Saugor on 20 December and Madras on again on 4 February 1810. She was at Point de Galle on 17 February, reached St Helena on 3 May, and arrived at Long Reach on 7 July.

The train No.20 Madras Mail to Madras starts from Trivandrum Central. R. K. Nair, a Kollam-based businessman takes the first class coach to Madras with his wife Geetha and daughter Devi from Kollam Junction. Tony Kurishingal, along with his friends Hitchcock Kanjikkuzhi and Kumbalam Hari boards the same coach from Kottayam. Tony is the son of a wealthy businessman, Kurishinkal Kariyachan, Kanjikuzhi is a detective novelist and Hari is a young politician.

Ignacious ("Ignace") Tirkey is an Indian field Hockey player. He plays as a Fullback and has captained the Indian team. He also serves the Madras Engineering Group (Madras Sappers corps of engineers) Indian army as a commissioned officer. He holds the rank of Captain.

Tamil Nadu Day is celebrated in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu to commemorate the formation of the state. Tamil Nadu was created on 1 November 1956 with the name Madras State. On 14 January 1969, Madras State was officially renamed to Tamil Nadu.

The three Presidencies established by the British East India Company (Bengal, Bombay and Madras) each issued their own coinages until 1835. All three issued rupees and fractions thereof down to - and -rupee in silver. Madras also issued two-rupee coins. Copper denominations were more varied.

Ocean's fourth voyage was again to Madras and China. Patton left Portsmouth on 17 May 1796, and arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on 2 August. From there she sailed to Madras, which she reached in November. She arrived at Colombo on 7 December.

The YMCA Madras was started in 1920 and it started its academic operation from the year 1931, as a first Physical Education college of South Asia with two academic programmes, 'Certificate in Physical Education' and 'Diploma in Physical Education' affiliated to the University of Madras.

Captain William Wauchope acquired a letter of marque on 28 June 1796. Berwick was admitted to the Registry of Great Britain on 29 August. Captain Wauchope sailed from Portsmouth on 21 October 1796, bound for Madras. Berwick arrived at Madras on 2 February 1797.

The word Malabar is derived from the Malayalam word "mala-baram". Mala in Malayalam means "hill". Varam means "slope" or "side of a hill".C. A. Innes and F. B. Evans, Malabar and Anjengo, volume 1, Madras District Gazetteers (Madras: Government Press, 1915), p. 2.

Dhinakaran was born on 1 July 1935 at SurandaiD. G. S. Dhinakaran Memorial Page in Tirunelveli district of Madras Presidency (today Tamil Nadu), British India. He attended St. John`s college, Palayamkottai, and received a BSc degree in Mathematics from Madras University in 1955.

Captain Lynch sailed from Portsmouth on 8 April 1812, bound for Madras and Calcutta. Harriet reached Madras on 8 August and arrived at Calcutta on 28 August. She burnt at Calcutta on 14 October while receiving cargo for homeward journey. Her crew were saved.

Captain Thomas Smales acquired a letter of marque on 4 April 1797. He sailed from Portsmouth on 6 June, bound for Madras and Calcutta. Lord Walsingham reached the Cape on 4 September and Madras on 2 December. She arrived at Kedgeree on 25 January 1798.

Kittummavan (Kuriyathi), a kind-hearted neighbour, is his only help. Kittummavan asks his son Raghavan (P. Ganga) to take Appu to Madras and find him a job. Appu leaves to Madras, where he gets the job as a servant in rich Sreedhara Menon's (Madhavan) house.

264 Nevertheless, the Madras Stock Exchange was successfully revived in September 1937 and was incorporated as the Madras Stock Exchange Association Limited. EID Parry, Binny and Co. and Arbuthnot Bank were the largest private- owned business corporations at the turn of the 20th century.

A new terminus was built at Egmore for the Madras and South Mahratta Railway Company. In 1927, the South Indian Railway Company shifted its headquarters from Madurai to Chennai Central. The company operated a suburban electric train service for Madras city from May 1931 onwards.

His primary school education was done in Avinagadda, completing his Plus 2 at Bandaru Noble college. He then attended Madras Christian College, graduating with a bachelor's degree. After graduating he worked as a secretary in Madras for two years, before returning to his hometown.

Madras curry is said to originate from the south of India, and gets its name from the city known as Madras when English merchants arrived there in 1640 (now Chennai) however, many claim it was created in curry houses in Britain during the 1960s.

Captain James Rattray commanded Phoenix on her first voyage, which was to Madras and Bengal. She left the Downs on 16 January 1786.British Library: Phoenix (3). She was reported to have been well on 6 May at , and within three weeks sail of Madras.

Ceress captain for her second voyage was Captain George Stevens. He too sailed her for the Indian coast and China, leaving Torbay on 6 March 1790. She reached Madras on 22 June, and Negapatam on 29 July. Two days later she was back at Madras.

Sundara Rao Naidu was born in January 1889 to Diwan Bahadur T. Varadarajulu Naidu (1863-1930) a Padma Velamma Naidu family. He had his education in Madras and graduated in law from the Madras Law College. He practised for a short while before entering politics.

He was also invited to contribute an article to a theosophical journal, Theosophist, published in Madras, India, for which he wrote "Language, Mind and Reality".Language Mind and reality. Written in 1941 originally printed by the Theosophical Society in 1942 "The Theosophist" Madras, India.

The Teachers' Teacher Award reached him in 2007 and Madras Medical College awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from Madras Medical College in 2010. The next year, the Government of India included Vittal in the Republic day honours list for the award of Padma Shri.

Butterworth joined the army in Madras and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the 38th Madras Regiment. While he was governor of the Straits Settlements, Butterworth was instrumental in establishing the Singapore Volunteer Corps. Butterworth was later promoted to Major General in 1855.

Madras is home to the Erickson Aircraft Collection, a privately owned collection of airworthy vintage aircraft. The collection is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Jefferson County Fair is held on county property along Fairgrounds Road in Madras.

Bower was born in 1812 in an Anglo-Indian family in Madras. He was educated at the Veperi seminary. After completing his schooling, he was employed as a catechist by the Wesleyan Missionary Society. In 1838, he was appointed Assistant Missionary in the Madras mission.

Captain George Wood acquired a letter of marque on 5 February 1805. He sailed from Portsmouth on 8 March, bound for Madras and Bengal. Charlton reached Madras on 17 July. She was at Masulipatam on 24 August and arrived at Diamond Barbour on 31 August.

After his death, the Materia Medica of Madras that he was working on was completed by David Hooper the government quinologist at Ootacamund. A portrait was placed at Royapettah Hospital and in 1894 a prize was instituted at the Madras Medical College in his memory.

The Lok Sabha constituency Chennai South is one of three constituencies in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was formerly known as Madras South. It was created in 1957 through bifurcation of Madras Lok Sabha constituency. It is the most populous Lok sabha constituency in south India.

Captain Charles Raitt left Portsmouth on 5 June 1797 for Madras and Bengal. He had a letter of marque issued on 13 March 1797. Earl Spencer reached Simons Bay on 4 September and Madras on 2 December. She arrived at Kedgeree on 26 January 1798.

Sir Venkata Svetachalapathi Ranga Rao Bahadur (8 September 1862 – 1921) was an Indian landlord and zamindar of Bobbili in Madras Presidency from 1881 to 1921. His grandson and successor Ramakrishna Ranga Rao served as the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency from 1932 to 1936.

Madras: University of Madras. p.208 The Chola army eventually reached the Pala kingdom of Bengal where they defeated Mahipala. The Chola army also defeated the last ruler of the Kamboja Pala dynasty Dharmapala of Dandabhukti.Ancient Indian History and Civilization by Sailendra Nath Sen p.

Horncastle left the Downs on 6 January 1787, bound for Madras, Bengal, and Bombay. Capt James Horncastle. Princess Royal reached the Cape on 3 April, and arrived at Madras on 6 June. From there she sailed to Calcutta, arriving at Diamond Harbour on 18 June.

Rajan stood as a Justice Party candidate in the 1920 elections and was elected as a member of the Madras Legislative Council. He was also instrumental in getting W. P. A. Soundrapandian Nadar nominated to the Madras Legislative Council as a Justice Party nominee.

During this time, he was also Leader of the Upper House, namely, the Madras Legislative Council.

Ramesh Shotham (born May 7, 1948 in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India) is a percussionist and drummer.

Shriram holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Loyola College, Chennai of the University of Madras.

In 1923, Knapp was nominated to the Madras Legislative Council and served from 1923 to 1926.

She also honored the Duke of Edinburgh on his visit to Madras (now Chennai) in 1961.

The Tenali-Repalle branch line, constructed by Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, was opened in 1916.

Havelock returned to his childhood home of India as Governor of Madras from 1896 to 1900.

He studied law from Madras Law College and set up practice as a lawyer in 1885.

Mountain View Hospital Heliport is a private heliport located in Madras, Jefferson County, Oregon, United States.

Aaron qualified by beating Purdy 3–0 in the Zonal final match also held at Madras.

Pragada Kotaiah completed his schooling at Ponnur. He completed his textile technology from Madras Textiles Institute.

Currently he is Senior Consultant, Urology and Renal Transplantation at Madras Medical Mission Hospital in Chennai.

Singaravelar along with a group of workers from Madras State also took part in the strike.

Still photography was by Venkatachari and the film was shot and processed at Film Centre, Madras.

The Tenali-Repalle branch line, constructed by Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, was opened in 1916.

Since then, Madras Musings has been financed by Chennai Heritage and functions as its official mouthpiece.

The French commander at Madras, Lally, depicted at the later Siege of Pondicherry by Paul Philipotteaux.

Despatched in September 1842, it plied between Suez and Calcutta with stopovers at Colombo and Madras.

In 2008, TTDC conducted a boat race in Muttukadu, in association with the Madras Boat Club.

The unit left Hong Kong, disembarked at Madras and arrived at Trivandrum on 31 January 1947.

Gopi Krishan and Vyjayanti Mala dance, as well as the Madras Sisters (Sasi, Kala, and Mala).

Cladospongia is a genus of choanoflagellate. The type species (C. elegans) is found in India (Madras).

In his investigations in Madras Presidency, Thurston was assisted by K. Rangachari of the Government Museum.

He was eventually removed in 1692 and replaced with Nathaniel Higginson as the President of Madras.

Shooting took place at the National Movietone Studio, Madras. The final length of the film measured .

The team trained at the Madras (YMCA) College of Physical Education where Buck was founding principal.

He served for 53 years as a missionary and died in Madras on October 13, 1695.

He worked as a lecturer in the Madras Law College for a period of thirteen years.

In his later years, Varadarajulu Naidu actively participated in the temple-entry movements in Madras Presidency.

The 1943 Chennai floods occurred during the annual northeast monsoon in Madras (now Chennai) in India.

In Madras, the Congress won 74% of all seats, eclipsing the incumbent Justice Party (21 seats).

Richmond was born on 29 October 1878, the son of J Richmond CMG JP. He was educated at Bedford Modern School.Bedford Modern School of the Black And Red, A.G. Underwood 1981 Richmond entered the Indian Forest Service in 1898. After training in England and Germany he joined the service in Madras (1901) becoming District Forest Officer (1903), Principal of the Madras Forest College (1913), and Assistant Inspector-General of Forests to the Government of India (1919–22). He became Conservator of Forests (1923), a Member of the Madras Legislative Council (1923), Chief Conservative of Forests Madras (1927) and retired from the Indian Forest Service in 1932.

In January 2000, the Madras High Court ordered that lakhs from Premananda's frozen accounts should be placed in a fixed deposit for three years and the resulting interest should be paid to the victims as compensation. The original guilty verdict was appealed to the Madras High Court and the appeal was rejected in December 2002.Madras High Court Verdict 12 December 2012 In April 2005, the Supreme Court of India rejected an appeal. On 5 February 2009, the Madras High Court rejected a habeas corpus petition, keeping in view the recommendations of the district sessions judge at the time of conviction and the previous Supreme Court order.

When Canara (part of the Madras Presidency until this time) was bifurcated into North Canara and South Canara in 1859, Mangalore was transferred into South Canara and became its headquarters. South Canara remained under Madras Presidency, while North Canara was detached from Madras Presidency and transferred to Bombay Presidency in 1862. The enactment of the Madras Town Improvement Act (1865) mandated the establishment of the Municipal council on 23 May 1866, which was responsible for urban planning and providing civic amenities. The Italian Jesuits, who arrived in Mangalore in 1878, played an important role in education, economy, health, and social welfare of the city.

He lost his father when he was young and completed his schooling in Madras with the assistance of the tahsildar Muthuswami Naicker. On completion of his schooling, Iyer served in subordinate posts in the civil service even while continuing his education. Iyer graduated in law from the Presidency College, Madras while serving as the magistrate of police and served as a judge in mofussil centres from 1871 to 1877, when he was appointed to the bench of the High Court of Madras. Iyer served as a judge of the Madras High Court from 1877 till his death in 1895, even acting as the Chief Justice for three months in 1893.

Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty CSI (1806–1868) was an Indian merchant and Indian independence and political activist who founded the Madras Native Association, one of the earliest Indian political associations, and the first Indian-owned newspaper in Madras, The Crescent. He was also the second Indian to be appointed a member of the Madras Legislative Council, succeeding V. Sadagopacharlu on his death. Gazulu Chetty was born in 1806 to a wealthy indigo merchant Sidhulu Chetty in Madras and was closely related to T. R. A. Thumboo Chetty and was a gajula balija chetty merchant. On completion of his initial education, Chetty entered the family trade and succeeded as a businessman.

Most of the early bus services were operated by private agencies. The Nilgiri Mountain Railway, an UNESCO World Heritage Site Pamban railway bridge, which connects the Pamban island with the Indian mainland was constructed in 1914 Malabar, c. 1913 The first organised initiative for the construction of new roads and maintenance of existing roads in the Presidency was initiated in 1845 with the appointment of a special officer for the maintenance of main roads.Mill 1996, p. 134 The principal roads under the aegis of the officer were the Madras-Bangalore road, Madras-Trichinopoly road, Madras-Calcutta road, Madras-Cuddapah road and the Sumpajee Ghaut road.

Pitman Shorthand was introduced in 1837 with the release of the inventor's book, Stenographic Sound Hand. It reached Madras in 1886 when a commercial school run by the Pachaiyappa Charities began teaching the language. The Stenographers' Guild was formed fifty years later under the initiative of N. Subramania Iyer, a reporter at the Corporation of Madras, and S. Sivaramakrishna Iyer and P. Ramanuja Iyer, shorthand writers of the High Court of Madras, who convened a meeting in Panagal Park attended by about 40 shorthand writers from the Courts, Police, Government and newspapers. The Guild was inaugurated by C. Rajagopalachari, at the time Chief Minister of Madras, on September 26, 1937.

Annie Besant in 1922 There was a strong sense of national awakening in Madras Presidency starting from the later half of the 19th century. Of the 72 delegates who participated in the first session of the Indian National Congress at Bombay in December 1885, 22 were from Madras Presidency.Mazumdar, Pg 58Mazumdar, Pg 59 The third session of the Indian National Congress was held in Madras in December 1887Annie Besant, Pg 35 and was a huge success attended by 362 delegates from the Province.Annie Besant, Pg 36 Subsequent sessions of the Indian National Congresswere held in Madras in 1894, 1898, 1903, 1908, 1914 and 1927.

In 1868, the Madras Chamber of Commerce urged the Governments of India and Madras to build a large General Post Office in a central place. However, owing to the construction of GOPs in Calcutta and Bombay, both Government of India and Government of Madras were able to sanction only 200,000 for this purpose. In 1873, the present site, where the Abercrombie Battery had once stood, was selected and the construction started in 1874, but there was a lack of funds to proceed with the work till 1880. The site was initially intended to be divided between the Bank of Madras and the Post Office.

St. Charles Madras is a non-profit medical center located in Madras, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1967 as Mountain View Hospital, the level IV trauma center has 25 beds. It is the only hospital in Jefferson County and joined the St. Charles Health System in 2013.

Captain James Hay acquired a letter of marque on 27 February 1805. He sailed from Portsmouth on 25 April, bound for Madras and China. Coutts reached Madras on 25 August, Penang on 18 September, and Malacca on 22 October. She arrived at Whampoa on 24 December.

Maraimalai Adigal was an English professor at Madras Christian College, Tambaram. The Madras operation was taken care by Thiru V.Subbiah Pillai. Following the death of Thiru V. Thiruvarangam Pillai (1944), Thiru. V. Subbiah Pillai took over the administration as Managing Director of the company until 1983.

EIC voyage #3 (1809-1810): Captain John Nelson Whyte acquired a letter of marque on 5 December 1808. He sailed from Portsmouth on 22 February 1809, bound for Madras and Bengal. Lord Melville was at Madras on 3 July, and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 19 July.

Homeward bound, she was at Madras on 16 October. She then joined a convoy that departed Madras on 25 October. provided the escort for the nine East Indiamen of the convoy. A gale commenced around 20 November at and by 22 November had dispersed the fleet.

From Madras Alexander sailed to Rodrigues, in the Mascarene Islands. Next, she visited Mauritius, arriving on 29 December. She then sailed to Acheh, arriving there on 27 July 1811, before returning to Madras on 14 March. By 13 July Alexander was at the Cape of Good Hope.

Andhra Kesari Prakasam who was with Sreeramulu told Ma.Po.Si. that they want to keep Madras as their temporary capital. Ma.Po.Si. denied his request. Ma.Po.Si. through his Tamilasrasu Kazhagam held massive protests for want of Madras within Tamil Nadu. He was even imprisoned at times for this.

Chandrika was born in Tamil family in Madras now called Chennai. She, along with her sister Indra Nooyi did her schooling in Holy Angels Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in T.Nagar. Later she earned commerce degrees from Madras Christian College and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Madras and Bengal. Captain Cheyne sailed from Portsmouth on 24 February 1748, bound for Madras and Bengal. Lapwing reached Fort St. David on 21 June. She delayed her departure for Bengal because of a report of there being a French squadron of eight vessels in the area.

In 1861, Chetty was created Companion of the Star of India. Two years later, in 1863, he was nominated to the Madras Legislative Council on the death of V. Sadagopacharlu, the first Indian nominated to the Madras Legislative Council as per the Indian Councils Act 1861.

It is affiliated to Madras University. MGC was founded in 1994, while Rt. Rev. Dr. Joshua Mar Ignathios, Bishop, Diocese of Mavelikarawas the first director of the college. The college is affiliated to the University of Madras and approved by the government of Tamil Nadu since 1997.

After graduating with a degree in science, Sundarrajan went to Madras (now Chennai), where his uncle Veeraraghavan was an amateur actor in the Triplicane Fine Arts theatre troupe. Sundarrajan played minor roles in this troupe's plays, and simultaneously managed a full-time career at Madras Telephones.

The Siege of Madras was a siege of Madras, which was then under English rule, between December 1758 and February 1759 by French forces under the command of Lally during the Seven Years' War. The British garrison was able to hold out until it was relieved.

Avantisundarī kathā and Avantisundarī kathāsāra, ed. by S. K. Ramanatha Sastri (Madras: Dixon Press, 1924); Avantisundarī of Ācārya Daṇḍin, ed. by Sūranād Kunjan Pillai, Trivandrum Sanskrit Series, 172 (Trivandrum: University of Travancore, 1954); Avantisundarī kathāsāra, ed. by G. Harihara Sastri (Madras: Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute, 1957).

Usman was born to Mohammad Yakub who belonged to an aristocratic family of Tanjore,More, Pg 247 Madras Presidency in 1884. Usman graduated from the Madras Christian College and joined the South Indian Liberal Federation. Usman practised Unani medicine and acquired a reputation as an efficient physician.

After a year he discontinued his medico path and decided to continue in law profession. He finished his B.L. in Madras law college. Then he started practicing in madras high court. Later he joined M.L. (Contract) and half a way he quit because of his political interest.

Later in 1945, P. V. Rajamannar was appointed as Judge of Madras High Court and in 1948 Rajamannar became the first Indian to be elevated as Chief Justice of Madras High Court. He retired in 1961 and continued his active services for government by heading various committees .

Veeraraghavachariar was born in a Vaishnavite Brahmin family of Vadakapattu village near Chingleput.Muthiah, Pg 94 He had his schooling and graduation in Madras. On graduating, he was employed as a lecturer in Pachaiyappa's College, Madras. At about this time, he befriended fellow tutor, G. Subramania Iyer.

Krishna & Co. and Madras Cements for general cargo. Madras Cements, Chettinad Cements, India Cements, Bhatia International, Coal & Oil, Devendran Coal, JSW, MALCO, TNPL, Seshasayee Paper Boards Limited (SPBL), Dalmia Cements, Adani Enterprises for coal. Thiru Aaroon Sugars for raw sugar. South India Edible Oil for copra cake.

Swallow sailed from Bengal in September 1796, reaching Rangoon on 10 October and leaving on 12 November, reaching Penang on 24 November, Madras on 19 December, Trincomalee on 22 December, Madras on 4 January 1797, and St Helena on 15 March, arriving on 2 May at Torbay.

Captain Richard Lewin jr., sailed from The Downs on 20 February 1786, bound for Madras and China. Vansittart reached Johanna on 27 May and arrived at Madras on 22 June. Continuing her voyage, she was at Malacca on 24 August, and arrived at Whampoa on 23 September.

Moffat reached Madeira on 13 May and arrived at Madras on 6 September. She arrived at Kidderpore on 25 October. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 19 December and Madras on 15 February. She reached the Cape on 26 April and St Helena on 19 May.

He sailed from Portsmouth on 26 October, bound for St Helena and Madras. Britannia reached St Helena on 5 March 1804 and arrived at Madras on 5 October. Homeward bound, she reached St Helena on 31 December and arrived at The Downs on 19 March 1805.

He runs away from home without much money. He knows no language other than Telugu and believes that once he reaches Madras (now Chennai, the capital city of then Madras State) he can take a ship to England. He knows nothing of the hardships of this journey.

Captain Patrick Ramage acquired a letter of marque on 25 June 1804. He sailed from Portsmouth on 4 September, bound for Madras and Bengal. Lord Keith was at Madeira on 27 September, and reached Madras on 17 February 1805. She arrived at Diamond Harbour on 19 March.

Bulusu Sambamurti (4 March 1886 – 2 February 1958) was an Indian lawyer, politician and freedom-fighter who served as the President of the Madras Legislative Council from 1937 to 1942. Thus, he was first speaker of Madras presidency assembly. He was popularly Known as Maharshi Bulusu Sambamurti.

He stood in the 1937 Madras assembly elections and was successful. The Indian National Congress won the elections and Sambamurti was made President of the Madras Legislative Council. He served from 1937 till 1942 when he resigned due to the outbreak of the Quit India Movement.

Madras Central was part of South Indian Railway Company during the British rule. The company was established in 1890 and was initially headquartered in Trichinopoly. Egmore Railway Station was made its northern terminus in 1908. It was then shifted to Madurai and later to Madras Central.

Rajalingam is the only son of Ramalingam, the zamindar of Kalathur. Kannamma is the daughter of Murugan, a farmer of the same place. On the zamindar advice, Murugan sends his daughter to Madras for higher education. While returning from Madras, Kannamma meets Raja in the train.

The government then wrote that he should use the survey ship Sophia which was to bring Sir John Malcolm to Madras in May 1817. He finally set sail to Calcutta on 17 July 1817 aboard Sophia. When Mackenzie moved from Madras to Calcutta, Lechmiah was retained.

Raj was born in Thrissur District. He did a B.A. from the prestigious Madras Christian College. He was a disciple of a well-distinguished economist Malcolm Adiseshiah at Madras Christian college. His teacher pressed for him to go for higher studies in London School of Economics.

Andrew Bell (27 March 1753 – 27 January 1832) was a Scottish Episcopalian priest and educationalist who pioneered the Madras System of Education (also known as "mutual instruction" or the "monitorial system") in schools and was the founder of Madras College, a secondary school in St Andrews.

The Edouard Michelin Auditorium, which can accommodate 180 persons, is used for film projections, plays, lectures and discussions. About 3,000 students enroll at the Alliance Française of Madras every year to learn French. The Alliance Française of Madras also has branches outside Chennai, in Coimbatore and Trichy.

General Stuart reached Madras on 4 February 1802, and arrived at Calcutta on 5 March. Homeward bound, she was at Kedgeree on 1 September, and Madras again on 29 September. She reached St Helena on 4 January 1803 and arrived at The Downs on 23 March.

Osborne set out after the ship, which turned out to be Friendship, and which he recaptured early that night. The brig escaped; she was the Bee, from Madras sailing to Masulipatnam. Hodoul had captured both Friendship and Bee that morning. The British took their prizes to Madras.

The town of Sardas was a Dutch possession till 1819 before it was handed over to the British. Madras was an important battle site during the Carnatic Wars between the English and the French. For a long time, Madras was the administrative capital of the Presidency.

On 14 January 1826 Castle Forbes arrived at Madeira from London. On 2 February she sailed for Madras and Bengal. Castle Forbes was sailing from London and Madeira to Madras when she had to put in at the Cape of Good Hope on 15 April 1826.

A portrait in Masonic dress by Raja Ravi Varma. Russell was appointed Governor of the Madras Presidency on 5September 1900, when he was aged 31 years. He served in this position from 1900 to 1906: his tenure was almost contemporaneous with Lord Curzon's Viceregality. As Governor of Madras, Ampthill he inaugurated the King Institute in Madras; the Rangaraya Medical College in Cocanada, on 4 December 1903; and the Cochin State Forest Tramway, the latter on 3October 1905.

He acquired dual Bachelor of Arts degree in Sanskrit and Mathematics from Madras University (1944). He was awarded the Sri Godayvari Sanskrit Prize by Madras University in B.A. (Sanskrit) exam. He was awarded the Pitti Muniswami Chetty Garu Gold Medal by Madras University for first rank in the Siromani exam with Advaita Vedanta as specialisation (1949). He went on to earn his Master of Arts Degree in Sanskrit (Classical Literature and Alankara as specialisations) from Nagpur University (1951).

Chenchiah got his education from Madras Christian College that grew enormously under William Miller — Scottish missionary, principal. He received a degree in philosophy in 1906, where he received a Gold medal for "proficiency in Philosophy." He then did his Bachelor of Laws degree (BL) in 1908, and a Master of Laws degree (ML) in 1913, from Madras Law College. He started his practice as an advocate of High Court of Madras, served as government servant in various offices.

Ramanathan Chettiar was a member of the Indian National Congress and played an active role in the Indian Independence Movement. He served as a councillor in the Corporation of Madras from 1948 to 1952. In 1949 he was selected Sheriff of Madras and in 1950 was elected Mayor of Madras, serving in both cases for a year. In the 1957 Lok Sabha elections, Ramanathan Chettiar was elected to the Indian parliament from the Pudukkottai Lok Sabha constituency.

Sir Thiruvarur Muthuswamy Iyer (28 January 1832 – 25 January 1895) was an Indian lawyer who, in 1877, became the first native Indian to be appointed as judge of the Madras High Court. He also acted as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court in 1893. He is also one of the first Indians to have a statue. Iyer was born in a poor Brahmin family of Vuchuwadi in the Tanjore district of the Madras Presidency.

Sir Pazhamaneri Sundaram Sivaswami Iyer (7 February 1864 - 5 November 1946) was a prominent lawyer, administrator and statesman who served as the Advocate General of Madras from 1907 to 1911. Sivaswami Iyer was born on 7 February 1864 in the village of Palamaneri. He had his schooling in Palamaneri and graduated from Presidency College, Madras. Sivaswami Iyer studied law and practised as a lawyer serving as the Advocate-general of Madras Presidency from 1907 to 1911.

Thanikachalam Chetti was born in December 1874 and educated at the Madras Christian College and Madras Law College. He worked as a lawyer with the Short, Bewes & Co Short, Bewes and Co later became Bewes and Thanikachalam, one of the first Indo-British collaborations. Thanikachalam Chetti participated in the early sessions of the Justice Party and was responsible for drafting the resolutions in the Madras Legislative Council which eventually became the Communal G. O. of 1928.

In 1809 he received a civil appointment but the new governor of Madras, George Barlow, had passed a pledge that was unpopular among the Europeans in the Madras Army. Cubbon refused to sign the declaration and he lost his appointment during this so-called white mutiny in Madras. He was reappointed in 1810 in the Commissariat Department initially under Col. Close in central India during the Pindari War and then under Colonel Philip Meadows Taylor in Kurnool.

She makes use of the spirit and enthusiasm for art to magnify life She aims to explore the deeper perspective of life through art. For her, art is an extension of her view of life and the struggle of weaker sections of society. Reshma studied at Madras University, Anna Adarsh College, University of Madras and holds a Ph.D. on Transgender identity issues and public policy. She has a Master's degree in Public Administration from Madras Christian College, Chennai.

The De La Haye scandal was a major scandal which took place in 1919 in the city of Madras (now known as Chennai), India. It resulted in the murder of De La Haye, the principal of Newington House, a college in Madras on the night of 15 October 1919 and a highly sensationalized trial known as the De La Haye murder case or Madras murder case. No one was implicated and the case remains unsolved to this day.

The remainder of the BLPI in India was concentrated in Calcutta, Madras and Madurai, where the party was active in trade union work. In 1946 S. C. C. Anthonypillai, one of the Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) political leaders, was elected President of the Madras Labour Union (India's oldest union) and the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Workers' Union. In 1948, the Fourth International asked the party to enter the Socialist Party of India and practice entryism there.

Throughout the colonial era, doctors from Europe and Eurasia trained and practised at the first hospital. Between 1800 and 1820, about four hospitals were formed in Madras. In 1835, Madras Medical College was set up, making it one of the oldest colleges of European medicine in Asia. In 1854, when the British government agreed to supply medicines and instruments to the growing network of minor hospitals and dispensaries, government store depots were established in Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, and Rangoon.

The Madras Sappers were the only regiment of the Madras Presidency Army to survive unscathed the extensive reorganisations that took place between 1862 and 1928. The thambis, as the troops of the Madras Sappers are popularly known, with their hallmark Shakos have distinguished themselves in many battlefields around the world for more than 200 years. The Bangalore torpedo, a mine clearing explosive device, was invented in the Centre at Bengaluru in the early years of the Twentieth Century.

278 In the early part of the 20th century, the Madras government established the Pumping and Boring Department to drill boreholes with electric pumps. The Mettur Dam,Gough 2008, p. 130 the Periyar Project, the Cudappah-Kurnool canal and the Rushikulya Project were the biggest irrigation projects launched by the Madras Government. Constructed below the Hogenakkal Falls on the Madras-Mysore border in 1934, the Mettur Dam supplied water to the western districts of the Presidency.

43 Most of the sea trade was carried through the presidency's principal port of Madras. Other important ports were Gopalpur, Kalingapatnam, Bimlipatnam, Visakhapatnam, Masulipatnam, Cocanada, Madras, Cuddalore, Negapatam, Pamban and Tuticorin on the east coast along with Mangalore, Cannanore, Calicut, Cochin, Alleppey, Quilon(Coulão) and Colachel on the western seaboard.Thurston 1913, p. 36 The port of Cochin was taken over by the Government of India on 1 August 1936, and that of Madras on 1 April 1937.

Pakala Venkataramana Rao Rajamannar (1901–1979) was an Indian judge and politician who served as the acting Governor of Madras State from 1957 to 1958.Indian states since 1947, (Worldstatesmen, 16 September 2008) P.V. Rajamannar was the first Indian to become Chief Justice of Madras High Court after independence from 1948 to 1961.The Honourable Chief Justices (Madras High Court, 17 September 2008) He was also the first Chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi in New Delhi.

The Armenian community of Madras gained prominence in the 17th century AD and exercised a significant amount of power and domination over early Madras till the middle of the 19th century. Coja Petrus Uscan who led the Armenian community of Madras from 1723 to 1751 is regarded as the greatest and most famous member of the community.Madras Rediscovered, Pg 119 The community has almost become extinct, yet its memory survives through Petrus Uscan's numerous endowments and works of charity.

Tamil is the city's first language. English is spoken widely in South Chennai and Central Chennai, (Kanchipuram and Chennai districts) and is used almost exclusively in business, education and other white collar professions. Tamil spoken in Chennai uses English words liberally, so much so that it is often called Madras bhashai (Tamil for "Madras language"). Other languages spoken in the city include Telugu, Malayalam and Urdu and they contribute to the vocabulary of Madras bhashai as well.

Sayeed was nominated to the Madras Legislative Council in 1926 as a candidate of the Muslim League and served till 1936. In the 1937 elections, he was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly as a candidate of the League. As independence approached, Sayeed left the Muslim League and joined the Indian National Congress. In July 1949, Sayeed was appointed acting judge of the Madras High Court and as one of the puisne judges in January 1950.

Since the Nawab had already made his territories over to the British, Tinnevelly passed into the Madras Presidency in 1801. Ceylon, then newly conquered from the Dutch, was a part of the Madras Presidency from 1793 to 1798.Codrington, Chapter X:Transition to British administration A minor insurrection occurred amongst the sepoy troops at Vellore on 10 July 1806 but was suppressed by the next day using sepoys and European troops from Madras under Captain Rollo Gillespie.

Wallis served as the Advocate- General of the Madras Presidency from 1900 to 1906. He was also nominated to the Madras Legislative Council and served as an ex-officio member from 1904 to 1906. In 1907, Wallis was appointed judge of the Madras High Court and officiated as Chief Justice from July to October 1914. In November 1914, his appointment as Chief Justice of the High Court was confirmed, and he served as such until 1921.

The Bank of Madras, c. 1905 The Bank of Madras was one of the three Presidency Banks of British India, along with the Bank of Bengal and the Bank of Bombay. It was established on 1 July 1843 through the amalgamation of a number of existing regional banks and headquartered in Madras (now Chennai). It was merged with the other Presidency banks in 1921 to form the Imperial Bank of India, which later became the State Bank of India.

Shanmugha Rajeswara Sethupathi joined politics at an early age. He was elected to the Madras Legislative Council as a candidate of the Justice Party and served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council until 1937 when he lost to Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Thevar of the Indian National Congress. During his period of service with the Justice Party, he served in the Economic Depression Enquiry Committee which enquired into the causes and impact of the Great Depression in Madras Presidency.

The southernmost tip of the Indian Peninsula is Kanyakumari which is the meeting point of the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and the Indian Ocean. When India became independent in 1947, Madras presidency became Madras state, comprising present-day Tamil Nadu, coastal Andhra Pradesh up to Ganjam district in Orissa, South Canara district Karnataka, and parts of Kerala. The state was subsequently split up along linguistic lines. In 1969, Madras State was renamed Tamil Nadu, meaning "Tamil country".

Kishore Chandra Deo was born in Kurupam to Raja V. Durgaprasad Deo of Kurupam and Rani (now,Late Rajmata) Sobhalata Devi. He is the present Zamindar of Kurupam, Vizianagram District, Andhra Pradesh. He belongs to the Konda Dora scheduled tribe community, and is from a family of tribal hill chiefs. He was educated in Madras, he holds an M.A. degree in Political Science and a B.A. degree in Economics from Madras Christian College, Madras (now Chennai).

The first organisation in the Madras Presidency to agitate for the rights of Indians was the Madras Native Association which was established by publicist Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty in 1849. This organisation did not survive for long and was eventually disbanded. In May 1884, M. Veeraraghavachariar, G. Subramania Iyer and P. Anandacharlu established the Madras Mahajana Sabha. The office of the Sabha functioned in the beginning at the office of The Hindu, Ellis Road Junction, Mount Road.

Around this time, Lingappa, the Naik of Poonamallee turned against the British when they refused to pay tribute. He complained to Golconda on the arrogance of the British of Madras exhorting the Qutb Shah of Golconda to invade and capture Fort St George. However, as the Qutb Shah was making plans to invade Madras the invasion of the Marathas consumed his attention. Madras was spared from an invasion but restrictions were imposed on trade with the colony.

Jawaharlal Nehru encouraged the Parliament of India to pass the amendment in response to State of Madras v. Champakam Dorairajan, which went before the Madras High Court and then the Supreme Court of India. In that case, a Brahmin woman in Madras challenged the state's Communal General Order, which established caste quotas in government-supported medical and engineering schools, on the grounds that it denied her equality under the law; both courts had upheld her petition.

After they crash the car, Costas and Natsuo steal a motorcycle, which they later crash as well. With his goons stripping the car, Madras drives off in pursuit. After locating Costas and Natsuo, he shoots Costas and attempts to run down Natsuo, who despite Costas' plea has begun to run towards the car. Natsuo deliver's a kamikaze attack on Madras, kicking through the windshield and hitting Madras so hard the force of the strike decapitates him.

Kumaraswami Sastri was born in Madras in 1870, the eldest son of C. V. Sundara Sastri. Kumaraswami Sastri was the grandson of C. V. Runganada Sastri, polyglot and one of the first Indians to serve in the Madras Legislative Council. He had three brothers and a sister, Seethammal, who married Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer. Kumaraswami Sastri graduated from the Presidency College and Law College, Madras, where he won the Elphinstone Thompson and Morehead Law scholarships.

Anantanarayanan joined the Indian civil service on 15 October 1929 and served as Sub-Collector and Joint Magistrate in various districts of the Madras Presidency. He became a District Judge on 8 March 1940 and was appointed to the Madras High Court on 10 August 1959. Anantanarayanan served as Chief Justice of Tamil Nadu from 1966 till his retirement on 1 May 1969. Anantanarayanan also served as Director of Legal Studies, Madras from 1955 to 1959.

Madras Abkari Act, 1886 was imposed and set in place a strict regulation which banned the local manufacturing of alcohol and confined it to central distilleries where excise duty was paid prior to being sold. This British tax policy favored the consumption of foreign liquors over more traditional drinks such as toddy and country liquors. One fifth of the Madras Presidency population consumed alcohol. Excise revenue from Madras Presidency accounted for as much as 38% of its total revenue.

Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 23 December and Madras on 8 February 1812. She reached St Helena on 11 May and arrived at The Downs on 21 July. EIC voyage #4 (1814-1815): Captain John Pyke sailed from Portsmouth on 8 June 1814, bound for Bengal and Madras. Phoenix was at Madeira on 23 June and arrived at Saugor on 23 November. Homeward bound, she was at Madras on 16 February 1815, Colombo on 23 March, and the Cape on 31 May. She reached st Helena on 29 June and arrived at the Downs on 29 August. EIC voyage #5 (1816-1817): Captain Pyke sailed from The Downs on 17 April 1816, bound for Madras and Bengal. Phoenix reached Madras on 28 July, Saugor on 28 August, Kidderpore on 7 September, and the New Anchorage on 19 October.

The Madras High Court was a pioneer in Original Side jurisdiction reform in favor of Indian practitioners as early as the 1870s. The Madras High Court's history means that the decisions of the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council are still binding on it, provided that the ratio of a case has not been overruled by the Supreme Court of India. Although the name of the city was changed from Madras to Chennai in 1996, the Court as an institution did not follow suit and retained the name as the Madras High Court. However, a Bill to rename the Madras High Court as the Chennai High Court was approved by the cabinet on 5 July 2016, along with the change of name of the Calcutta High Court and Bombay High Court as Kolkata High Court and Mumbai High Court, respectively.

Miller was born in Thurso on 13 January 1838, and was educated at Aberdeen University and Edinburgh University. He arrived Madras in 1862 at the age of twenty-four, as the only missionary of the Free Church of Scotland in Madras city at the time of his arrival. Initially, as a missionary, he was engaged in outdoor preaching, congregational work, medical aid, and the education of boys and girls. Madras Christian College received vitality with the arrival of Miller in 1862, and soon became the greatest architect of the college. In 1863, he envisioned that only Christian education could train the greatest leaders of India, he began to specialise on the institution that later renamed the Central Institution, as the Madras Christian College on 1st January, 1877. —A Christian school[General Assembly School] founded on 3 April 1837 by John Anderson, Scottish missionary and the founder of the mission of the Free Church of Scotland at Madras, later became known as Madras Christian College that grew from the school into a college and then Campus under the leadership of William Miller.

He was appointed a CBE in the 1948 New Year Honours for services to cricket in Madras.

Flora of the Presidency of Madras, Parts I to XI. (3 volumes). Adlard and Son Limited, London.

With most of his prisoners removed, Rainier then ordered Maria Riggersbergen and Zeerop to return to Madras.

The stamp was released in Madras, on 10 December 2006 by the then Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran.

The exudation is resinous.Vatica chinensis − L., Mant. Pl. 2: 242. 1771; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 84(61).

The stamp was released in Madras, on 10 December 2006 by the then Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran.

As of September 1990, Chellam was living in Madras with one of her daughters being a doctor.

St. George Indian Orthodox Church, is a parish under the Madras Diocese of the Indian Orthodox Church.

Sastri K. A. N., (1935). The Cholas. University of Madras. Srivijaya's capital eventually moved northward to Jambi.

The first Mangalorean Catholic to settle down in Madras in the 1940s was Dewan Bahadur Alexio Pinto.

She is married to Peter Madras and has two daughters, two sons-in-law, and five grandchildren..

The site is in the Kanchipuram district, approximately from Chennai city (previously, Madras) and about from Chingelpet.

The Madras harp lives on sublittoral and offshore sandy bottoms at depths of 5 to 250 m.

In 1904 he joined Madras Presidency College as Lecturer or Pandit in Telugu for teaching Telugu literature.

The Madras Presidency issued one rupee coins until 1815 AD. One rupee was equal to twelve fanams.

The station is named so because of the presence of the Madras High Court in the vicinity.

Madras Flying Club, Chennai, P.P.L. (Private Pilot License) 1990–1992 (obtained flying license as an NCC cadet).

From snout to vent ; tail . Central India (Saugor, Mhow), N.W. Provinces (Agra), Punjab, Sind, Madras Presidency (Bellary).

MRF Challenge is an open-wheel motorsport formula based in India organized by Madras Motor Sports Club.

Edward Francis Elliot (died 11 June 1866) was a judge and the second son of Hugh Elliot, the Governor of Madras from 1814 to 1820. He is remembered largely for his affair with Isabella Napier, the wife of Colonel Johnstone Napier that created a sensational scandal in colonial Madras.

At the Nazareth Dispensary, about one-third of the patients treated are Non-Christians. Hindu boys and girls studied at Nazareth schools. There was a time when Margoschis was travelling to Madras, people of Nazareth were worried if Margoschis could be transferred to Madras. But Margoschis was not transferred.

Wonderla plans to open an amusement park in 2017. Other important recreation centres include Madras Boat Club, which is over 140 years old, and Gymkhana Club, which is famous for its 18-hole golf courses. Built in 1867, Madras Boat Club is the second-oldest surviving Indian rowing club.

He was born in Madras, British India on 8 September 1856, the eldest son of the Deputy Surgeon-General Henry King, also the Principal of the Medical School in Madras. He was educated at Ennis College and Trinity College, Dublin, where he received BA and LLB degrees in 1878.

The other parties contesting the election were the Madras Province Muslim League (MPML) headed by Jamal Mohammad, the People's Party of Madras started by Raja of Pithapuram (a breakaway faction from the Justice Party) and the Muslim Progressive Party led by Nawab C. Abdul Hakim and S. M. Pasha.

Matheny, Susan, "Overhulse documents donated to museum", Madras Pioneer, Madras, Oregon, September 10, 2014. In 1934, Overhulse returned to Jefferson County and was elected district attorney. He was re-elected to that position three times. In 1948, he resigned in order to concentrate on his private law practice.

The Madras Motor Race Track (Irungattukottai Race Track) permanent motor racing circuit is in this town. It was built in the late 1980s and was inaugurated in 1990. It is the first of its kind in India and is owned and operated by the Madras Motor Sports Club.

He completed law from Madras Law College in 1882 and practised as an advocate. Sivagnanam Pillai was selected for the Provincial Civil Service and served as a Deputy Collector. Upon retirement, he joined the Justice Party. In 1919, he was elected to the Madras Legislative Council from Tinnevely.

O. Marshall,Per Regimental History, no further biog. provided. Possibly Henry O. Marshall, d.29/5/1884, Devon, of 22nd Madras Native Infantry however, of the Madras Native Infantry became its first commandant, resigning on 19 March 1850, from which time Denniss took command until 25 February 1851.

The two kingdoms of Travancore and Cochin joined the Union of India after independence in 1947. On 1July 1949, the two states were merged to form Travancore-Cochin. On 1January 1950, Travancore-Cochin was recognised as a state. The Madras Presidency was reorganised to form Madras State in 1947.

Captain Thomas Garland Murray acquired a letter of marque on 26 January 1799. He sailed from Portsmouth on 2 April 1799, bound for Madras and Bengal. Preston reached Madras on 3 August and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 23 August. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 19 November.

Srinivasa Iyengar was born on 11 September 1874 to Seshadri Iyengar, a prominent landowner of Ramanathapuram district. His parents were orthodox Sri Vaishnava Brahmins of Madras Presidency. Srinivasa Iyengar had his schooling in Madurai and graduated from Presidency College, Madras. His early schooling was in his mother tongue, Tamil.

Collins left Portsmouth on 18 March 1813 for Madras and China, sailing under a letter of marque against America.– Letter of Marque against the United States. Accessed 20 December 2016. Warley sailed via Tenerife (11 April), and Johanna, Comoro Islands (13 July), arriving at Madras on 9 August.

The government gave up the plan and released the vessels in May 1794. It paid £3,440 for having delayed Carnatics departure by 129 days. Captain Jackson sailed from Portmouth on 2 May, bound for Madras and China. Carnatic reached Madras on 11 September and Penang on 23 October.

It paid £1,500 for having delayed her departure on her voyage to India by 72 days. Captain Smith sailed from Portsmouth on 2 May, bound for Madras and China. Dublin reached Madras on 11 September and Penang on 22 October. She arrived at Whampoa on 23 January 1795.

Pratap gained admission to Madras Christian College (MCC), Madras. Pratap remained friends with those he went to school and MCC with. His friends helped him act in plays at college and his interest turned to acting from painting. He left MCC with a B.A in Economics in 1971.

Usha Ramanathan is an Indian human right activist. She is an alumnus of Madras University. She studied law at Madras university, the University of Nagpur and Delhi University. Access Now organisation gave her the 2018 'Human Rights Hero' award for tireless efforts to highlight the issues related to Aadhaar.

After Madras Bashai became somewhat common in Madras, it became a source of satire for early Tamil films from the 1950s, in the form of puns and double entendres. Subsequent generations in Chennai identified with it and absorbed English constructs into the dialect, making it what it is today.

1, p. 99. In 1912, Ramanujan moved with his wife and mother to a house in Saiva Muthaiah Mudali street, George Town, Madras, where they lived for a few months. In May 1913, upon securing a research position at Madras University, Ramanujan moved with his family to Triplicane.

Buchi Babu patriotically founded the Madras United Club in the esplanade .Himself a fine cricketer ,he was responsible for getting prince Ranjitsinjhi to Madras ,he was also responsible for sending Chari to England .This bowler ,who twisted and turned, earned tributes from English Cricketers . Buchi Babu had a dream.

P. V. Rajamannar was conferred Honorary Doctorates from Madras University, Andhra University and Annamalai University. Justice P V Rajamannar Salai (Road) in K. K. Nagar, Chennai is named in his honour. He was also nominated twice to Upper House in Madras and on two occasions acted as governor.

Lady Castlereagh left Hobart on 26 May and returned to Port Jackson. There she embarked 150 men from the 46th Regiment of Foot for Madras. She arrived at Madras on 12 September. A gale on 24 October caused her to slip her cable and put out to sea.

The Madras Standard was an English language newspaper published from Madras. It was founded by the lawyer and journalist Barrister G. P. Pillai. A report for the week ending 2 April 1904 states the circulation as 3000, the highest in the list of English language newspapers in India.

Avinashilingam had his schooling at Tiruppur High school, Tiruppur and London Mission High School, Coimbatore. He graduated from Pachaiyappa's College, Madras in 1923 and studied law at Madras Law College. In 1926, he commenced practice as an assistant to his uncle Ramalingam Chettiar before entering the Indian independence movement.

Captain John Mills sailed from the Downs on 15 November 1815, bound for Madras, Bengal, and Batavia. Europe reached the Cape on 29 January 1816. She was at Madras on 12 April, Penang on 22 May, and Malacca on 3 June. She arrived at Batavia on 26 June.

Some of the oldest medical colleges India, the Madras Medical College (1835) and Stanley Medical College (1938) are located in the city. Notable, liberal arts colleges in the city include Loyola College, Madras Christian College, Presidency College, Stella Maris College, Women's Christian College and Ethiraj College for Women.

Captain Campbell sailed from The Downs on 30 March 1816, bound for Madras and Bengal. Lord Keith was at Madeira on 9 April and reached Madras on 27 July. She arrived at Diamond Harbour on 10 September. Homeward bound, she was at the New Anchorage on 23 November.

Captain John Robinson Francklin (or Franklin) acquired a letter of marque on 11 March 1808. He sailed from Portsmouth on 15 April 1808, bound for Madras and Bengal. Northumberland was at Madeira on 1 May, and arrived at Madras on 19 September. On 5 November she was at Calcutta.

Suryanarayana Sastri was born at Vilacheri near Thirupparankundram in a Brahmin family. He graduated in philosophy and was soon employed as a Professor of Tamil in the Madras Christian College. In 1895, Suryanarayana Sastri rose to become the Head of Department for Tamil at the Madras Christian College.

Captain Adam Cumine acquired a new letter of marque on 27 February 1804. He sailed from Portsmouth on 8 May 1804, bound for Madras and Bengal. Bengal reached Madras on 3 September and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 26 September. Homeward bound she was at Saugor on 9 December.

Captain Thomas Welladvice acquired a letter of marque on 16 April 1799. He sailed from Portsmouth on 18 June 1799, bound for Bengal and Madras. Charlton arrived at Diamond Harbour on 4 November. Homeward bound she was at Saugor on 23 January 1800, and Madras on 15 March.

Captain John Altham Cumberlege acquired a letter of marque on 1 February 1801. He sailed from Portsmouth on 31 March 1801, bound for Madras and Bengal. Charlton reached Madras on 26 July and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 23 August. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 13 December.

Runganada Sastri's son Calamur Sundara Sastri had four sons and a daughter. His eldest son Sir C. V. Kumaraswami Sastri served as a judge of the Madras High Court while his daughter Seethammal married Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer, a leading political figure in early 20th century Madras.

His best performance came in the Gopalan Trophy match against Madras in Madras in 1953-54, when he opened the bowling and took 3 for 28 and 3 for 71 and the Ceylon team won by an innings and 108 runs. He also represented Sri Lanka at hockey.

Anantanarayanan was born on Madras on 1 May 1907 to a Vadama Iyer Brahmin family, and had his schooling at Sir M. Ct. Muthiah High School and the Hindu High School. He did his graduation at the Presidency College, Madras and post-graduation at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

The other parties contesting the election were the Madras Province Muslim League (MPML) headed by Jamal Mohammad, the People's Party of Madras started by Raja of Pithapuram (a breakaway faction from the Justice Party) and the Muslim Progressive Party led by Nawab C. Abdul Hakim and S. M. Pasha.

She received a third letter on 26 January 1805 that named John Stewart as her captain. Stewart sailed her on her third, fourth and fifth voyages. Her third voyage took Windham to Madras and China. She left Portsmouth on 8 March 1805 and reached Madras on 21 July.

Captain Alexander Cuming (or Cumine) acquired a letter of marque on 28 March 1800. He sailed from Torbay on 27 May, bound for Bengal and Madras. Castle Eden arrived at Kedgeree on 6 December. She was at Saugor on 8 February 1801, and reached Madras on 10 March.

Captain John Rogers acquired a letter of marque on 18 March 1805. He sailed from Portsmouth on 25 April, bound for Madras and Bengal. General Stuart reached Madras on 23 August, and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 11 September. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 14 November.

Dutt assumed the name Michael when the marriage was registered in the baptismal register. They had four children together. He wrote to Bysack in December 1855: Dutt returned from Madras to Calcutta in February 1856, after his father's death (in 1855), abandoning his wife and four children in Madras.

Dr. C. Natesa Mudaliar (1875–1937), also known as Natesan, was a politician and activist of the Dravidian Movement from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He was one of the founders of the Justice Party along with Theagaroya Chetty and Dr. T. M. Nair. Dr. Natesa Mudaliar was born in a Tuluva Vellala family of Triplicane, Madras in 1875. He had his early schooling in Madras and graduated from Presidency College, Chennai and Madras Medical College before practising as a doctor.

Neil statue Satyagraha was an agitation that took place in Madras Presidency, British India during the Indian Independence Movement. It took place in 1927 demanding the removal of the statue of Colonel James Neil situated at Mount Road (now Anna Salai) in Madras. James Neil of the Madras Fusileers regiment played a major role in putting down the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He was killed during the Siege of Lucknow and was reviled as the "Butcher of Allahabad" by the Indians.

The Madras legislature also passed resolutions demanding the removal of the statue. The agitation lost steam after a few months and was dropped to make way for the Simon Commission boycott. Neil's statue remained in the same place and was moved to the Ripon Building campus for a few years. In 1937, when the newly elected Congress government (under the 1935 act) of C. Rajagopalachari moved it to the Madras museum after a resolution demanding its removal was passed in the Madras Corporation.

After conquest of India, the main perceived threat to British was from Russia. So recruitment was re-oriented towards north Indians of Punjab and Nepal. This resulted in the British reducing the strength of the Madras Regiment since the southern borders were relatively peaceful. After many years, this regiment was re-raised with fresh recruits and a draft of troops from the Madras Sappers during World War II. The newly reborn Madras Regiment performed very creditably during the Burma Campaign.

He thereafter pursued a B.A. in History and graduated with distinction from Loyola College, Chennai. Subsequently, he studied law at the Madras Law College specialising in Insurance Law. After joining the IPS he did his Masters in Mercantile law from Annamalai University and completed his Ph.D in Criminal Law from the Madras University. After completing the first year of B.L. in Madras Law College, he took a year off and went to New Delhi to prepare for the UPSC exams.

Tomb of Tippoo family, Vellore (MacLeod, p.141, 1871) The fort was the scene of the Vellore Sepoy Mutiny, popularly called the Vellore Mutiny. In 1806 Vellore Fort was used by the British to station two infantry regiments of the Madras Army plus four companies of an English regiment. The British commander-in-chief of the Madras Army had prescribed a new round hat for the Madras sepoys to replace their turbans, plus ordering the removal of beards, caste markings and jewelry.

He was also on the editorial committee of the Christian Patriot, an Indian Christian nationalistic organ, between 1916 and 1924. He was a member of Board of Directors of YMCA, Madras(present Chennai). He also served as a member of Executive committee of the National Missionary Society. He was one of the founders of Madras Christo Samaj in Madras Presidency, and has been actively associated with the Bangalore Continuation conference for the discussion association with problems of Indian Christian life.

On 28 January 1869, a resolution was passed by the Madras municipality proposing the creation of a park at the site of the stables of Messrs. Burghall and Company in Chintadripettah. The proposal was forwarded to the Government of Madras Presidency and on 15 April 1869, the proposal was approved and land was allotted for the construction of the park. The park was named after Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier, the Governor of Madras at the time of its creation.

P. K. Monnappa was born and brought up in Kodagu, India. He joined as a Police Inspector in Madras service in the 1920s and served in various levels until he rose up to the position of Inspector- General of Police in Madras province in 1948. Those days Andhra Pradesh was divided between the British Indian province of Madras and the princely state of Hyderabad. He was made Inspector-General of Police, the highest position in the police of Hyderabad State, after Operation Polo.

EIC voyage #1 (1783–1785): (1) 1783/4 Madras and China. Captain John Rogers sailed from The Downs on 27 December 1783, bound for Madras and China. Middlesex reached the Cape of Good Hope on 19 March 1784, and arrived at Madras on 9 June. She sailed on to China and arrived at Whampoa anchorage on 3 October. Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 29 December, reached St Helena on 12 April 1785, and arrived at The Downs on 4 July.

At the age of seventeen, he married Soundaravalli and soon after his marriage, he moved to Madras to work as a sub-editor to a journal Siddantha Deepikai. Later, in March 1898, he quit this job to work with V. G. Suryanarana Sastri as a teacher in Madras Christian College. In his time in Madras Christian College he toured throughout Tamil Nadu giving lectures on Saivam. At about the same time he started a society for Saivam called Saiva Siddhanta Maha Samajam.

In 1916, he became the Advocate-General of Madras Presidency, the youngest ever to occupy the post. He also served as a member of the Madras Senate from 1912 to 1916. In recognition of his services, Srinivasa Iyengar was appointed Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in the 1920 New Year Honours.K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Pg 5 Iyengar also served as the Law member on the executive council of the Governor of Madras from 1916 to 1920.

In 1655, he arrived in Madras and proceeded to Bengal where he was to serve in Cossim Bazar. Subsequently, he went to Patna (1657), in Bihar and in 1686 he became the Agent of the Company. He fled to Madras in 1689 as he was thrown out by the local Muslim rulers during the Anglo–Moghal war. He was given protection by Governor Elihu Yale at Madras for 18 months and who also supported him fully to return to Bengal.

Early Sufi missionaries settled in the region as early as the 8th century. H. G. Rawlinson, in his book Ancient and Medieval History of India (), claims the first Arab Muslims settled on the Indian coast in the last part of the 7th century. This fact is corroborated, by J. Sturrock in his South Kanara and Madras Districts Manuals,Sturrock, J., South Canara and Madras District Manual (2 vols., Madras, 1894-1895) and also by Haridas Bhattacharya in Cultural Heritage of India Vol.

When the French occupied Madras in 1746, they seized Petrus Uscan's belongings and carried them off to Pondicherry.Madras Rediscovered, Pg 120 Uscan fled Madras and sought refuge in a Danish ship. Dupleix, then the governor of French India, offered him French protection and restoration of confiscated property in the name of the Capuchin chapel of Madras Armenians if Uscan shifted his loyalty to the French. However, Uscan gave a defiant reply that the Armenian tradition was to remain loyal to one's benefactors.

EIC voyage #1 (1780-1782): Captain James Baldwin sailed from Torbay on April 1780, bound for Madras, Bombay, and China. Contractor was at Trinidade on 6 June, and reached Madras on 3 September. She made a small excursion to Tumala Punta, where she arrived on 5 October, before she returned to Madras on 14 October. She then visited Tellicherry on 27 November, and left on 2 March 1781. She was at Goa on 16 March Goa and Bombay on 7 April.

Triton had sailed from Fort Saint George (Madras) as escort to Admiral Lord Cornwallis, then Governor General of India, who was traveling to Pondicherry in a small captured French vessel. Triton also escorted him back, returning to Madras on 30 July. (Pondicherry fell to the Army on 23 August.) She reached Kedgeree on 8 August, and then on 8 September was at Madras again. She reached Penang on 4 October and Malacca on 19 October, before arriving at Whampoa on 15 December.

Rao in Pusa in 1923 Yelseti Ramachandra Rao (11 September 1885 – 1 June 1972) was an Indian entomologist and a pioneer in the study and management of the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria). Rao was born in Yemmiganur, Adoni Taluk, then belonging to Bellary District in the Madras Presidency. He matriculated from Madura College, Madurai in 1899 and graduated in 1903. He joined Madras Christian College where he received a master's degree in zoology in 1906 following which he joined the Madras Agricultural Department.

Balakrishna was born in 1960 in Madras (present-day Chennai, Tamil Nadu) to Telugu actor and three-time Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (NTR) and his wife Basavatarakam. As the Telugu film industry was based in Madras at the time, he spent his entire childhood in Madras. During his adolescence, he moved to Hyderabad following the shifting of the Telugu film industry to that city. He earned a bachelor's degree in commerce from Nizam College, Hyderabad, Telangana.

After passing Matriculation at Hyderabad, he took his B.A., degree from Madras Christian College and MA. and L.T. degrees from Madras University. Joining the teaching line, he worked as the Principal of the Mehboob College, Secunderabad between 1889 and 1904, and then of the Pitapuram Raja College, Kakinada between 1905 and 1919. In 1925 he became the first elected vice chancellor of Madras University, holding that position until 1928. He was conferred a knighthood by the British government in 1924.

Raju was graduated in 1959 and obtained B.L. degree in Law in 1961 from the Madras University. In 1962 he was enrolled as an advocate in Madras Bar Association and started practice in various High Courts of India on Civil, Constitutional, Taxation and Land related matters. Raju worked as Standing Counsel for various Public Institutions and Undertakings of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh Government including Food Corporation of India. He was designated as Senior Advocate of Madras High Court in 1987.

Chennai is home to many educational and research institutions. IIT Madras, located in South Chennai is considered as the premier centre of engineering education in India. Anna University and the University of Madras are the oldest state owned universities which are ranked among the best universities in India. The College of Engineering, Guindy and Madras Institute of Technology, which are the constituent college of Anna University along with Alagappa College of Technology are the pioneer institutes of engineering education in India.

A sketch of Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer in a London newspaper during the Third Round Table Conference In 1920, C. P. was nominated as the Advocate- General of Madras Presidency. He was responsible for the introduction of the City Municipalities Act and the Madras Local Boards Act. In 1923, he was nominated to the executive council of the Governor of Madras and was charged with the portfolios of law and order, police, Public Works Department, irrigation, ports and electricity.

He was found very jovial at the police station as he was in the hospital. During his treatment, it was reported that he wanted to expose the murderers involved in the Boat Mail murder. (A train named Boat mail used to run between Madras and the then Dhanushkoti station.) A rich banker from Devakottai was murdered in the train between Chengalpet and Madras. A notable singer-cum-actress who traveled with the banker was missing/fled when the train reached Madras.

Politics in South India is characterised by a mix of regional and national political parties. Justice Party and Swaraj Party were the two major parties in the erstwhile Madras Presidency. The Justice Party eventually lost the 1937 elections to the Indian National Congress and Chakravarti Rajagopalachari became the Chief Minister of the Madras Presidency. During the 1920s and 1930s, the Self-Respect Movement emerged in the Madras Presidency spearheaded by Theagaroya Chetty and E. V. Ramaswamy (commonly known as Periyar).

Headquartered in Fort St. George, Madras Presidency was a province of British India. It comprised present-day Tamil Nadu, the Malabar region of North Kerala, the coastal and Rayalaseema regions of Andhra Pradesh, and the Bellary, Dakshina Kannada, and Udupi districts of Karnataka. It was established in 1653 to be the headquarters of the English settlements on the Coromandel Coast. After India's independence in 1947, Madras State, the precursor to the present day state of Tamil Nadu, was carved out of Madras Presidency.

On 10March 1792 the Daniells left Calcutta once more, this time for Madras (now Chennai), reaching it on the 29th of the same month. They left Madras after only 11 days, having hired the services of a considerable retinue, including two palanquins and their bearers, taking a route which more or less followed that of the British army which had defeated Tipu Sultan the previous year. They were back in Madras in January 1793. A briefer third tour took them through western India.

In 1920, Shanmukham Chetty participated in the Madras Presidency legislative council elections and was elected to the Madras Legislative Council. He served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council from 1920 to 1922, when he resigned. He joined the Swaraj Party and was, in 1924, elected to the Central Legislative Assembly, the newly inaugurated lower house of the Imperial Legislative Council of India. Chetty represented Indian employers at the International Labour Conference in Geneva in 1928, 1929 and 1932.

Jaisim attended Madras Christian College School (1960 batch). He completed his university education in architecture in 1966, from Madras University. From 1966 to 1970, he worked with the architectural firm of LM Chitale & Son, Madras. In 1970, inspired by Ayn Rand's novel, The Fountainhead, he started an architecture practice under the name "Jaisim- Fountainhead". The practice grew from 1970 to 1975, winning a National Competition for the Cochin Stadia, Presidents Nomination for the Small Industries Pavilion and the ‘TAJ Fisherman’s Cove’.

Kesava Pillai served in the Madras Legislative Council for quite a long time and is credited with having proposed a number of reforms. He was the principal architect of the Jail Commission and moved the Jail policy resolution which was passed by the government of the Raja of Panagal. He was also responsible for the creation of the Madras Forest Commission. Kesava Pillai was eventually elected Vice-President of the Madras Legislative Council and served in his capacity for some time.

Captain Colnett sailed from Portsmouth on 28 April 1809, bound for Madras and Bengal. Castle Eden was at Madeira on 9 May, reached Madras on 15 September, and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 23 October. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 4 December, Vizagapatam on 31 December, Coninga on 5 January 1810, Masulipatam on 9 January, and Madras on 13 January. She was at Colombo on 3 February, reached St Helena on 3 May, and arrived at Long Reach on 9 July.

The EIC on 1 May 1833 chartered Orient for a voyage to and from Bengal at a rate of £8 13s 6d per ton. Captain White sailed from Portsmouth on 18 June 1833, bound for Madras and Bengal. Orient reached Madras on 4 November and arrived at Calcutta on 19 December. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 6 February 1834 and Madras again on 24 February, reached St Helena on 28 May, and arrived at The Downs on 20 July.

David Annoussamy (born 4 Sept 1927) in Pondicherry. He is a former Justice of the Madras High Court.

His work in India included the discovery of quartzite stone implements in Rayachoti, then in the Madras Presidency.

Richmond played Cricket for Jamaica (where he had been born) and became President of the Madras Cricket Club.

Even now, the Poondi reservoir is the only reservoir built purely for the purpose of Madras water requirements.

Fraser arrived in Madras on 2 November and addressed the Council of Fort St George on 3 November.

Howard Staunton,The Chess Player's Chronicle, 1841, p73 Under the leadership of Ghulam Kassim, Madras won both games.

DD Chennai, formerly known as DD Madras, is a state-owned television channel telecasting from Doordarshan Kendra, Chennai.

Scincella palnica is a species of skink found in India (Travancore, Anaimalai, Palni Hills, Coimbatore, and Madras Presidency).

After the family incurred financial losses due to the insurance salesman's mismanagement, they went to Madras almost penniless.

She pursued bachelor's degree from Madras Presentation College, Perumbavoor. She remains unmarried. She resides at Chennai with family.

Bombay Farms Airport is a private Airport located 6 miles west of Madras in Jefferson County, Oregon, USA.

Ochs Private Airport is a private Airport located 12 miles northeast of Madras in Jefferson County, Oregon, USA.

On 9 February 2000, the Madras High Court suspended the implementation of the sentence on appeal from Jayalalitha.

Until the formation of Kerala State in 1957, Payyannur remained in the Malabar District of the Madras State.

In November 2007, DoMS IIT Madras & The Indian School of Business (ISB) inked a pact for collaborative research.

In 1998 Cataldi travelled to Madras, India, for an Asialink Literature Residency. She currently lives in South Australia.

Ramsingh died at the age of 70 on 18 October 1985 at a private hospital in Kodambakkam, Madras.

The Madras Rifle Corps was a light infantry battalion in the service of the Honourable East India Company.

The protest against the Madras Special Police (Kavumbayi Struggle) took place in the village on 30 December 1946.

He also served as the first Indian Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, before retiring in 1907.

Both the Madras and the Wob Dwyiet, recognised as symbols of the country, were included in this campaign.

He left his Carnatic stock to be invested for the instruction of the people of Madras in Christianity.

He is notable movies like Madras To Pondicherry, Raman Ethanai Ramanadi, Anadhai Anandhan, Server Sundaram, Soappu Seeppu Kannadi.

He lived in Nungambakkam and joined the Madras Observatory in 1840 as a "coolie" under T. G. Taylor.

Brown was appointed additional member of the Madras Legislative Council on 2 December 1865 and served till 1867.

She is certainly not the Waterloo that a storm drove on shore on 5 December 1827 at Madras.

K. Narayana Sivaraja Pillai (1879–1941) was an Indian historian, dravidologist and professor from the erstwhile Madras Presidency.

Sathyamoorthy Madras and Romeo eventually expose Sathyamoorthy's illegal activities to the public and Sathyamoorthy is sent to jail.

The extensive menu covered the usual curries such as korma, bhuna, madras, rogan josh, dansak, biriani and dopiaza.

Map of southern India showing the Madras State in yellow before the reorganisation of 1956 After Indian Independence on 15 August 1947, the Madras Presidency became the Madras Province. On 26 January 1950,India became republic it was formed as Madras State by the Government of India. At the time of its formation in 1950, it included the whole of present-day Tamil Nadu, Coastal Andhra, Rayalaseema, the Malabar region of North Kerala and Bellary of South Canara. Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema were separated to form Andhra State in 1953, while South Canara and Bellary districts were merged with Mysore State, and Malabar District with the State of Travancore-Cochin to form Kerala in 1956.

According to records, the church was constructed by a French Capuchin Father Ephrem de Nevers, the First Missionary of Madras who put up "the open pandall chappell" in Armenian Street in 1658.Muthiah, pp 331-332 The structure, however, did not survive for long and had to be reconstructed in 1692. The church was renovated in 1775 and 1785 and promoted to the status of the cathedral of the Ecclesiastical Province of Madras in 1886. When, in 1952, the ecclesiastical provinces of Madras and Mylapore were merged to form the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore with the San Thome Basilica as the headquarters, St. Mary's was given the status of a co-cathedral.

Andal Venkatasubba Rao (1894–1969), popularly known as Aandaalamma, was an Indian social worker, educationist and the co-founder of Madras Seva Sadan, a Chennai-based charitable organization working for the welfare of women and children. Born in 1894 in Chennai, the capital city of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, she did her early schooling at Holy Angels Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School and the Presidency Girls' High School, Madras. In 1928, she married M. Venkatasubba Rao, a judge at Madras High Court who would later be knighted by the British Queen, The couple founded Madras Seva Sadan, a charitable organization, the same year. The organization was started with a capital of 10,000.

The Madras Devadasis (Prevention of Dedication) Act (also called the Tamil Nadu Devadasis (Prevention of Dedication) Act or the Madras Devadasi Act) is a law that was enacted on 9 October 1947 just after India became independent from British rule. The law was passed in the Madras Presidency and gave devadasis the legal right to marry and made it illegal to dedicate girls to Hindu temples. The bill that became this act was the Devadasi Abolition Bill. Periyar E. V. Ramasamy was part in passing the Devadasi Abolition Bill but, owing to strong protests from devadasis across Madras Presidency, he suggested that the bill be introduced only as a private bill and not a public bill.

When the double metre- gauge line from the station up to Tambaram was electrified in 1931 with the 1,500 V DC overhead system, automatic signalling was provided between the station and Madras Egmore. However, it does not signal the broad-gauge line of the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway from Rayapuram, which also serves the station. The single line to Rayapuram was controlled by the Theobald's Token instrument, invented by an engineer of the Madras Railway and manufactured locally in the city by a firm named Orr & Co, which was used extensively on the lines of both the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway and the South Indian Railway. It was housed in the station office.

Madras province (North), 1909 Madras province (South), 1909 At its greatest extent, the Madras Presidency included much of southern India. Present-day territories that were once part of the presidency are the whole Indian State of Andhra Pradesh excluding the region of Banaganapalle Princely State, the Tondai Nadu, Kongu Nadu, Chola Nadu and part of Pandya Nadu regions of Tamil Nadu, the Malabar region of North Kerala, the Lakshadweep Islands, the Ganjam, Gajapati, Rayagada, Koraput, Nabarangapur and Malkangiri districts of southern Odisha and the Bellary, Dakshina Kannada, and Udupi districts of Karnataka and the parts of Jayashankar Bhupalapalli, Bhadradri Kothagudem districts of Telangana. The presidency had its winter capital at Madras and summer capital at Ootacamund.

He was appointed an Acting Judge in 1891 and continued in that position until being appointed a Judge of the Madras High Court in January 1895, succeeding Sir Muthuswamy Iyer to the bench of that Court. As Judge, amongst other cases, he presided over the insolvency court which investigated into the crash of a Madras bank, Arbuthnot & Co, in 1906. He also acted as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court in 1899, 1903 and 1906, the first Indian to do so. After serving as a judge of the Madras High Court for 12 years, he resigned on 13 November 1907 due to failing sight, and was succeeded by Mr. Chettur Sankaran Nair.

He was close to Sir Arthur Lawley, whom he is held to have substantially influenced and assisted in his administration of the Madras Presidency, in a private capacity. As Chairman of the Reception Committee, he welcomed the delegates to the 29th session of the Indian National Congress held at Madras in 1914. He presided over a public meeting at Madras in 1915 organised to welcome Mr. M. K. Gandhi just then returned from South Africa. Welcoming Mr. Gandhi, he suggested the lines on which national work in India should proceed: He agreed to serve as the Honorary President of the All India Home Rule League established in Madras on 1 September 1916, by Mrs.

The Max and Ollie Lueddemann House is a historic residence in Madras, Oregon, United States. Completed in 1906, only four years after Madras's first plat, it was the home of newspaper publisher and civic booster Max Lueddemann (1873–1954) until he moved on to Portland in 1909. Originally from Mississippi, Lueddemann arrived in Madras with his wife Ollie in 1905 when he purchased the Madras Pioneer to add to his portfolio of several Eastern Oregon newspapers. Despite his short tenure in Madras, Lueddemann gained significant respect as a journalist, business leader, and promoter of commercial and real estate development in the young town, and was still remembered at his death 45 years later.

Menon received a B.A from the University of Madras and proceeded to England for higher study to Christ's College, Cambridge. He obtained first class honours in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos and returned to India after obtaining his M.A. In 1910 he became professor of zoology at the Presidency College, Madras. The Department of Zoology of University of Madras was established in 1927 and Menon was made its honorary director after he became the vice chancellor of the University of Madras in 1928. He was knighted in the 1933 New Year Honours list and invested with his knighthood on 3 March 1933 by the Viceroy, the Earl of Willingdon, at New Delhi.