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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)...
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    Munnetra Kazhagam since 7 May 2021. The Madras Presidency, headquartered in Fort St. George, India, was a presidency of India that comprised present day Tamil...
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    established as the Madras Preparatory School before being repurposed as a high school, and then a graduate college. The Presidency College is one of the...
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    the erstwhile Madras Presidency and was formerly known as Madras State. The first legislature of any sort for the Presidency was the Madras Legislative...
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  • when Madras was made a Presidency once and for all. Streynsham Master is the best remembered and most renowned of the Agents of Madras. Madras was elevated...
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    The second legislative assembly election for the Madras Presidency after the establishment of a bicameral legislature by the Government of India Act of...
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    Denmark, the Netherlands, and France. By the mid-18th century three Presidency towns: Madras, Bombay and Calcutta, had grown in size. During the period of Company...
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    in 1947, the erstwhile Madras presidency was integrated into the Union of India as Madras province. The province became Madras state following the adoption...
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  • Madras Presidency Association was a faction within the Indian National Congress which existed before indian independence. While Justice Party championed...
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    Madras Presidency (also known as Madras Province and known officially as Presidency of Fort St. George) was an administrative subdivision (presidency)...
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    The Madras Presidency was a province of British India comprising most of the present day Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh along with a few districts and...
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    mobilise in the Madras Presidency in 1936, Thevar joined their ranks. Ahead of the 1937 elections to the assembly of the Madras Presidency, Thevar enlisted...
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    the Madras Presidency during the British Raj affected close to 20% of the population. Madras Presidency was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of...
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  • Zamindaris were established in the Madras Presidency by the government of the British East India Company starting from 1799 onwards. These settlements...
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    Chennai (redirect from Madras, Madras State)
    the Madras city and port and built Fort St. George, the first British fortress in India. The city was made the winter capital of the Madras Presidency, a...
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    The first legislative assembly election for the Madras Presidency was held in February 1937, as part of the nationwide provincial elections in British...
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    The first census of the Madras Presidency was taken in the year 1822. It returned a population of 13,476,923. The second census conducted in 1836-37 returned...
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    The fourth legislative council election to Madras Presidency after the establishment of dyarchical system of government by the Government of India Act...
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    The Madras Army was the army of the Presidency of Madras, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire. The Madras Army was...
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    The first legislative council election to Madras Presidency after the establishment of dyarchical system of government by the Government of India Act...
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    the discretion of the Governor. Headquartered in Fort St. George, Madras Presidency was a province of British India. It comprised present-day Tamil Nadu...
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  • The Madras Presidency Match was an annual first-class cricket fixture played in Madras (now Chennai) from the 1915–16 season to 1951–52 between teams called...
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    The second legislative council election to Madras Presidency after the establishment of diarchical system of government by the Government of India Act...
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    composed primarily of Indian sepoys. The presidency armies were named after the presidencies: the Bengal Army, the Madras Army and the Bombay Army. Initially...
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    The third legislative council election to Madras Presidency after the establishment of dyarchical system of government by the Government of India Act...
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    Legislative Council, the first representative legislature for the Madras Presidency (political predecessor for Tamil Nadu) was inaugurated in December...
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    Bengal Presidency and Madras Presidency were the three major centres of British power in South Asia. The first English settlement in the Presidency known...
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    smaller taluks. During the British Raj, 12 districts of the erstwhile Madras Presidency had their boundaries within the present-day Tamil Nadu. Post the Indian...
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    South Arcot District was a district in the Madras Presidency of British India. It covered the area of the present-day districts of Cuddalore, Kallakurichi...
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    South Canara was a district of the Madras Presidency of British India, located at 13°00′N 75°24′E / 13.00°N 75.40°E / 13.00; 75.40. It comprised the...
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