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	MADRAS PRESIDENCY FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Madras Presidency, also known as Madras Province and known officially as Presidency of Fort St. George, was a province of British_India.
		In 1763 the tract encircling Madras city, then known as the Jagir and later as Chingleput district, was ceded by the Nawab of Arcot.
		The Madras presidency was administered by a governor and a council, consisting of two members of the civil service, which number may be increased to four.
	www.whereintheworldisbush.com /Madras_Presidency (1059 words)

	Chennai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1746, Fort St George and Madras were captured by the French under General La Bourdonnais, the Governor of Mauritius, who plundered the town and its outlying villages.
		The Madras High Court, whose jurisdiction extends across Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, is the highest judicial authority in the state and is located in the city.
		Madras Veterinary College established in 1903 was the first institution of its kind in India.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madras (4489 words)

	Madras_Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At its greatest extent, Madras Presidency included much of southern India, including the present-day Indian State of Tamil Nadu,the Malabar region of North Kerala, the Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions of Andhra Pradesh, and the Bellary, Dakshina Kannada, and Udupi districts of Karnataka.
		Farther south Fort St George, the nucleus of Madras city, was erected in 1640.
		Broadly speaking, the entire population of Madras Presidency belonged to the five linguistic offshoots of the great Dravidian language family, dominant throughout southern India.
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Madras_Province (1097 words)

	BERHAMPUR (MADRAS) - LoveToKnow Article on BERHAMPUR (MADRAS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		(MADRAS), a town of British India, in the presidency of Madras.
		It is the headquarters of Ganjam district, and is situated about 9 m.
		Berhampur had a military cantonment, sometimes distinguished as Baupur, containing a wing of a native regiment; but the troops have been transferred elsewhere.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BERHAMPUR_MADRAS_.htm (105 words)

	Education: A Beautiful Tree - Part I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Madras Presidency and Bengal-Bihar data concerning the background of the taught and the teachers presents a kind of revelation.
		In the districts of Madras Presidency and two districts of Bihar for which data is available, it was found that children from communities termed 'Sudras' and the castes considered below them predominated in the thousands.
		Among the Oriya-speaking areas of the same Presidency, the percentage of children belonging to these two castes was 62 per cent; in Malyalam-speaking areas it was 54 per cent; and in Telugu- speaking areas it was 35-40 per cent.
	www.hvk.org /hvk/articles/1202/72.html (1718 words)

	Education in Pre-British India
		The school attendance, especially in the district of Madras Presidency, even in the decayed state of the period 1822-25, was proportionately far higher than the numbers in all variety of schools in England in 1800.
		The collector of Madras, on the other hand, report-ed in his letter of February 1826 that 26,963 school-level schol-ars were then receiving tuition at their homes in the area under his jurisdiction.
		This is the major common impression, which emerges from the (1822-25) Madras Presidency data, the report of W. Adam on Bengal and Bihar (1835-38), and the Punjab survey by G.W. Leitner.
	www.infinityfoundation.com /mandala/t_es/t_es_goyal_education.htm (1615 words)

	GANJAM - LoveToKnow Article on GANJAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		, a district of British India, in the extreme north-east of the Madras Presidency.
		The district is traversed thrcughout by the East Coast railway (Bengal-Nagpur system), which was opened from Calcutta to Madras in 1900.
		The headquarters station is Berhampore; the town of Ganjam occupied this position till 1815, when it was found unhealthy, and its importance has since declined.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GA/GANJAM.htm (815 words)

	FIBIS - What's on this site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is notable that the databases are equally searchable by the groom’s and the bride’s surnames, thereby overcoming the limitations that the original indexes are not searchable by brides’ names.
		A list of 41 boys featuring in the Madras Government Gazette for March 1825 and April 1826 as admissible into the Asylum with indication of their fathers’ Regiments.
		St. Thomas’ Mount was the headquarters of the Madras* Artillery and subsequently a major garrison of the Royal Artillery.
	search.fibis.org /what_s_on_this_site.html (1933 words)

	History of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		During the term of the Assembly in 1959, as result of the adjustment of boundaries between Andhra Pradesh and Madras (Alteration of Boundaries) Act, 1959, one member from the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly was allotted to Madras and consequently the strength of the Madras Assembly was increased to 206.
		Before the expiry of the period of Assembly, the President by a Proclamation issued on the 17th February 1980 under Article 356 of the Constitution, dissolved the Sixth Assembly and imposed President's Rule in Tamil Nadu.
		During the term of the Ninth Assembly a Government Resolution seeking the revival of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Council was moved and adopted by the house on the 20th February 1989.
	www.assembly.tn.gov.in /history/history.htm (3112 words)

	HISTORY OF CHENNAI CENTRAL EXCISE
		The year 1924 crossed an important milestone when Salt revenue was separated from Salt and Abkari department of Madras Presidency (till this date Excise duty on liquor remained with the State Government a fact we all know).
		The report had noted that the staff employed by the Madras Government for the purposes of the administration of the Central Excises was of the lowest grade (the report desired the upgradation of these posts in Madras Presidency when centrally taken over).
		The Madras Central Excise Collectorate at that time (1944) covered the whole of then Madras Presidency Viz., from Vijayanagaram in the North to Kanyakumari in the South and from Madras in the East to South Canara in the West.
	kalalchennai.tn.nic.in /historynew.htm (1342 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: V C Bhaskaran rows back in time to the origin of the Cauvery issue
		Madras appropriated to itself the right to construct a dam in Mettur in Selam district to impound 93.5 tmc ft of water.
		Madras naturally had what is called prescriptive rights over the upper riparian state of Mysore.
		Madras presidency formed a part of the raj, and thus was in an unassailable position.
	in.rediff.com /news/1998/aug/10vcb.htm (784 words)

	UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS-SENATE HOUSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first ever demand for higher education in Madras Presidency was voiced forth in a public Address to The Right Honourable Lord John Elphinstone G.C.H., Governor of Madras signed by 70,000 Native Inhabitants when the Governor in Council was contemplating “some effective and liberal measures for the establishment of an improved system of national education”.
		As a sequel, the University of Madras, organised on the model of London University, was incorporated on 5th September 1857 by an Act of the Legislative Council of India.
		The University of Madras progressed and expanded throughout the nineteenth century to span the whole of South India and subsequently gave birth to and nourished most of the Universities viz.
	www.unom.ac.in /salumni.html (489 words)

	University of Madras Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The University Board was constituted in January 1840 with Mr.George Norton as its President.
		This was the precursor of the present Presidency college, Chennai.
		As a sequel, the University of the Madras, organized on the model of London University, was incorporated on 5 September 1857 by an Act of the Legislative Council of India.
	www.voxmanagement.org /university.html (301 words)

	The Hindu : Tamil Nadu Tennis Association - 75 years old and still young
		Madras Cricket Club was among the first to lay tennis courts and also to conduct a tournament of considerable magnitude in 1887, which later came to be known as Southern India lawn tennis tournament.
		The doubles event was won by D. Mahanti and K.P. Lakshman Rao, who subsequently became a Justice of the Madras High Court and served as the President of Madras Provincial Lawn Tennis Association for nine years and thus contributed to the development of the game in Chennai.
		The growing stature of the game in Madras Presidency which then consisted of most of the subsequently formed southern states, led to the formation of Madras Presidency Lawn Tennis Association in 1926 with the affiliation of just 3 clubs, namely MCC, MUC and SIAA.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/01/13/stories/0713102h.htm (2636 words)

	Elite Formation in 19th Century South India - Robert Eric Frykenberg - First International Tamil Conference, 1966 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		...Madras Presidency, oldest of the Company presidencies in India, gained a reputation for corruptness and for being "different".
		Into the vortex of this accelerating, centripetal process, both at the Presidency and in the muufassal towns, went the still dominant Desastha (Maratha Brahman) administrators, many of the old Banya commercial houses, families of Muslim merchants, rising Tamil and Telugu and Malayali Brahman castes, and an array of other important communities.
		Esq., On the Condition and Requirements of the Presidencv of Madras (Madras: 1854), p.
	www.tamilnation.org /conferences/cnfMA66/frykenberg.htm (10166 words)

	V V Giri
		In the 1936 General Election in Madras, after the introduction of the Act of 1935, Giri was put up as the Congress candidate in Bobbili against the Raja of Bobbili, the most powerful political personality in the Madras Presidency.
		Again after the General Election of 1946 in Madras Giri was taken into the Cabinet formed by T. Prakasam and given the portfolio of Labour.
		He was elected (1969) the fourth President of the Republic with the acclaim of the people.
	indiapicks.com /stamps/Presidnts_PMs/VV_Giri.htm (1046 words)

	AMARANTACEAE - Famine Foods
		The fruit [sic] and leaves are eaten in Alwar, Rajputana; Bombay (Khandesh district, Bombay Presidency), and Balasore, in Bengal; (Madras Presidency): leaves eaten as greens.
		India: plant and seeds used as famine food in Alwar, Dhopur, Jaipur, Bhartpur, Ajmir-Merwara, Jodhpur, Udaipur and Bikanir, in Rajputana; and Nasik, in the Bombay Presidency The plant is generally used as a pot herb.
		Bombay: Getan, Kunjur, Kunjari, Kunira, Kunjra, Kundru : Malegaon, Nasik District, Bombay Presidency:.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/faminefoods/ff_families/AMARANTACEAE.html (732 words)

	The end of a women's college?
		Francis Capper of the Madras Army in the mid-1800s.
		The second oldest college for women in the South and the first in Madras, the Madras College was renamed Queen Mary's in 1917, two years after the government acquired the building and restored it to be worthy enough to be the Presidency government's first women's college.
		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president and former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, who took objection to Jayalalithaa's observations about the Namakkal Kavignar Malaigai being constructed during the DMK regime, said it was unclear why more space was needed in the Secretariat when the government was claiming to reduce levels.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2008/stories/20030425006013300.htm (1446 words)

	Article in a Box - Resonance - February 2004
		Thiruvenkata Rajendra Seshadri was born on the 3rd of February 1900, in the small town of Kulitalai on the banks of the river Kaveri near Tiruchirapalli in the then presidency of Madras.
		At Presidency College, he was taught by B B Dey and P Narayana Iyer, whom he revered and remembered for the rest of his life.
		In 1927, the Government of Madras selected him for an overseas scholarship that enabled him to do research under Robert Robinson on new antimalarial drugs and the synthesis of anthocyanins, and obtain a doctorate degree of the University of Manchester.
	www.ias.ac.in /resonance/Feb2004/Feb2004ArticleInABox.html (323 words)

	C Vijayaraghavachariar
		The climax of his political career came when in 1920 he was elected to preside over the Indian National Congress Session at Nagpur, where Gandhiji's advocacy of 'Poorna Swaraj' through non-violent non-cooperation was debated and accepted.
		In 1895 he was elected to the Madras legislative Council which he served for 6 years, till 1901.
		He was one of the two Vice Presidents of the Madras' Branch of the Passive Resistance Movement.
	www.congresssandesh.com /AICC/history/presidents/c_vijayaraghavachariar.htm (841 words)

	The Crash of Arbuthnot & Co
		Parry's was the oldest and Binny's was a little younger, but Arbuthnot's, the youngest, grew the fastest, became the biggest agency house in the Madras Presidency and was the first to succeed with establishing industry on a sound footing in the South.
		Amongst them were an acting Governor of Madras, a commander of the Madras Army and one who went on to become a Governor of the Bank of England.
		Moving on from representing several Arbuthnot creditors, he got together eight prominent citizens of Madras and together they resolved "that a bank which depended on the savings of those in the South had to be incorporated locally and managed by Indians who were locally known and respected".
	www.arbuthnot.org /crash_of_arbuthnot.htm (1206 words)

	Musical Nirvana - Introduction to Indian Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Madras started as a small fishing village until the British took it to build a fort, St George, in 1639.
		The Academy was formally inaugurated on the 18th of August, 1928 (The Inauguration), though the first music festival was held in 1927, December.
		Varahappa Iyer, a minister in the Tanjore Maratha court, was close to the British Governor in Madras.
	www.musicalnirvana.com /introduction/british_raj4.html (859 words)

	History of Tamil Nadu Secretariat
		In 1653, Fort St.George was made a separate Presidency and a year later it became the headquarters of the English settlements on the Coromandal coast, which later on, included areas from Northern Circars to Cape (with the exception of certain French and Danish settlements).
		Later, on 1 April 1960, territories comprising of Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh was transferred to Madras State in exchange of territories from the Chingleput and Salem District.
		After 1857, when the entire administration of the Madras Presidency was transferred from the East India Company to the direct control of the Crown in England the Madras Secretariat underwent few change in its set up.
	www.tn.gov.in /misc/histn.htm (1396 words)

	DR. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Declined Judgeship of the Madras High Court, making the famous statement, "I prefer to talk nonsense for a short while, to hearing it all day long" in his letter thanking the Chief Justice of Madras for the offer.
		President of the Inter-University Board of India and Ceylon and Chairman of its Standing Committee.
		Proceedings of the Madras Legislative Council 1919 to 1928 - Govt.
	cprfoundation.org /sircp.htm (3305 words)

	A Chronology of Anti-Hindi Agitations in Tamil Nadu, India
		Somasundara Bharathiyar was elected President and K.A.P. Viswanatham was elected Secretary.
		President of India issued an order that all efforts to make Hindi the sole official language of India by January 26, 1965 be strengthened and hastened.
		Since January 26 was a holiday, University of Madras students went on a one-day strike on January 25.
	www.geocities.com /tamiltribune/03/0101.html (3287 words)

	MALA Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The library movement in the former Madras Presidency originated as part of the national movement for political freedom and social development.
		The fifth All India Library Conference was held in Madras, along with the Congress session, during the last week of December 1927.
		K.V. Krishnanswamy Aiyar and Dr. S.R. Ranganathan, the Madras Library Association (MALA) was founded on 31st January 1928.
	www.accel-india.com /mala (130 words)

	Glimpses of the Glorious Past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Madraspatnam became a Presidency in 1654 and began to be known as Madras.
		The Collector of Customs, Madras was also in charge of the outports in the Presidency till 1936, when they were bifurcated and handled over for administrative purposes to the Collector of Salt Revenue whose office was housed in the same building for years.
		October, 1844, to John Dent Esq., Senior Member and Acting President of the Board of Revenue, had stated that the Gold Bullion and Silver imports in 1844 were valued at Rs.5,86,188/- and that the total duty collection from July 1842 to July 1843 was RS.4,62,264-07 and from July 1843 to 1844 Rs.
	www.chennaicustoms.org /organiz/checustoms_1.htm (3452 words)

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