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The Madras Presidency or Madras Province, officially called the Presidency of Fort St. George until 1937, was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India and later the Dominion of India. At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of southern India, including all of present-day Andhra Pradesh, almost all of Tamil Nadu and ...
The Mysore Wars, won by the British, helped expand the Madras Presidency in the second half of the 18th century. After Indian independence in 1947, the Madras Presidency became Madras state. The state’s Telugu-speaking areas were separated to form part of the new state of Andhra Pradesh in 1953. Three years later Madras was divided further ...
Tanjore District covered a total area of 9,600 square kilometres (3,710 sq mi). It had a population of 2,245,029 in 1901. The population density was 234 inhabitants per square kilometre (605/sq mi). As per the 1901 census statistics, Tanjore was the fifth most populous district in the Madras Presidency and the second most densely populated ...
The presidency town of Bombay (shown here in a 1908 map) was established in 1684. The presidency town of Calcutta (shown here in a 1908 map) was established in 1690 as Fort William. Madras Presidency: established 1640. Bombay Presidency: East India Company's headquarters moved from Suratto Bombay (Mumbai) in 1687.
Nov 22, 2018 · George P. Landow] The Presidency of Madras is one of the great territorial divisions of British India, bounded in the North by the presidencies of Bengal and Bombay, the Nizam’s dominions, and Nagpoor, and on the East, West, and South by the Indian Ocean. It comprises the larger portion of peninsular Hindoostan, embracing the whole of the ...
A Manual of the Nílagiri District in the Madras Presidency by Henry Bidewell Grigg 1880 Archive.org; A Manual of the Salem District in the Presidency of Madras by Henry Le Fanu 1883 Archive.org Volume I: The District, Volume II: The Taluks; Manual of the South Arcot District by J H Garstin, Collector of South Arcot. 1878 Archive.org.
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The Madras Presidency, or the Presidency of Fort St. George, 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 state, almost whole of Tamil Nadu and some parts of Kerala, Karnataka, Odisha and the union territory of Lakshadweep.
