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    Chennai. Established as Madras Corporation in 1688, it is the oldest municipal body in India. It is headed by a mayor, who presides over 200 councillors...
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    of a state. Born in a Bengali family in Hyderabad, Naidu was educated in Madras, London and Cambridge. Following her time in Britain, where she worked as...
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    Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar (category Madras Christian College alumni)
    Municipal High School, Kurnool. He graduated from Madras Christian College and studied law at Madras Law College. On completion of his studies, he practised...
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    Ramaswamy Venkataraman (category University of Madras alumni)
    born in Rajamadam village in Tanjore district, Madras Presidency. He studied law and practised in the Madras High Court and the Supreme Court of India. In...
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    College, commonly known by its former name Madras Law College, is a law school, located in Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India. It is also referred to...
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    Malayapuram Singaravelu (category People from the Madras Presidency)
    the forefront of Madras Tramways workers strike. Singaravelar also presided over the strike of 30 August 1924 by the scavengers of Madras Corporation. Singaravelar...
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    World Wisdom. de Bruyn, Pippa; Bain, Keith; Allardice, David (2010). Frommer's India. Frommer's. ISBN 978-0-470-55610-8. Government of Madras Staff (2004)...
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    issued by King James II of England on 30 December 1687 as the Corporation of Madras, it is the oldest municipal body of the Commonwealth of Nations outside...
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    George Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen (category Governors of Madras)
    1952), was a British Conservative politician who served as Governor of Madras from 1924 to 1929, and acting Viceroy of India from 1929 to 1931. Goschen...
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  • founded the Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha at Madras to propagate the study of Hindi in the then Madras Presidency and princely states of Banganapalle...
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  • was presided over by the governor. New stewards were appointed at this meeting to run the club. The funds managed by the stewards of the Madras races...
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    exam in 1894, returning to Ottapidaram to become a pleader in 1895. In Madras, Chidambaram Pillai met Swami Ramakrishnananda, a saint who belonged to...
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    with a railway station is Tindivanam and the nearest airport is Chennai (Madras), located 150 kilometres (93 mi) away. Originally built by Ananta Kon around...
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    Anantharaman, Ambujam (2006). Temples of South India. East West Books (Madras). p. 24. ISBN 978-81-88661-42-8. "10 years of East Coast Road: Monumental...
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    agitations of 1938 when Maraimalai Adigal presided over a conference denouncing the imposition of Hindi in the Madras Presidency on 3 June 1938. The first...
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  • Sarojini Varadappan (category University of Madras alumni)
    She was the daughter of former Chief Minister of Madras, M. Bhaktavatsalam. Sarojini was born in Madras on 21 September 1921 to Bhaktavatsalam and Gnanasundarambal...
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    July 2022. "EPS becomes AIADMK general secretary; OPS petition rejected in Madras HC". timesofindia. 28 March 2023. "Fight over symbol: A 'leaf' from history"...
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    V. V. Giri (category University of Madras alumni)
    Ratna in 1975. Giri died on 24 June 1980. V. V. Giri was born in Berhampur, Madras Presidency (present-day Odisha) in a Telugu Brahmin family. His parents...
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    USA: Xilbris Corporation. ISBN 978-1-4134-3843-7. Narasiah, KRA (2008). Madras : Tracing the Growth of the City Since 1639. Chennai: New Horizon Media...
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    Muthiah, S. (2004). Madras Rediscovered. East West Books (Madras) Pvt Ltd. p. 129. ISBN 81-88661-24-4. Narasiah, K. R. A. (2016). Madras: Tracing the growth...
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    Retrieved 15 November 2018. "The Syncretic Treasure of India's Oldest Mosque". Madras Courier. 26 May 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2018. M. G. S., Narayanan (1996)...
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  • Religion in Chennai India portal Hinduism portal S. Muthiah, ed. (2008). Madras, Chennai: A 400-year record of the first city of Modern India. Vol. 1. Palaniappa...
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  • at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. This was in collaboration with the PSBB Group of Schools, IIT Madras, Chennai Mathematical Institute, SASTRA...
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    University of Madras William Logan (1887), Malabar Manual (Volume-I), Madras Government Press William Logan (1887), Malabar Manual (Volume-II), Madras Government...
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    M. Karunanidhi (category Madras MLAs 1957–1962)
    published in seven volumes. Karunanidhi sponsored and presided over a State Autonomy Conference in Madras on 12 September 1970, which included Periyar, West...
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    graduation in 1974. After graduation, he worked in ISRO Ahmedabad, Mumbai TV, Madras Film Industry on contract basis until 1975 when Kerala State Film Development...
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    "Thiruvalithayam". Dharumapuram Adheenam. 25 April 2020. S., Muthiah, ed. (2008). Madras, Chennai: A 400-year Record of the First City of Modern India, Volume 1...
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    July 2016, along with the change of name of the Calcutta High Court and Madras High Court as Kolkata High Court and Chennai High Court respectively, the...
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    p. 243. ISBN 978-0-471-79434-9. Hemingway, Frederick Ricketts (1907). Madras District Gazetteers: Trichinopoly. Vol. 1. Government Press. Knapp, Stephen...
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  • Subbarayan (1889–1962), Chief Minister of Madras Presidency (1926–1930) P. T. Rajan (1892–1974), Chief Minister of Madras Presidency (1936–1936) C. Rajagopalachari...
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