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    Madras State was a state of India which was in existence during the mid-20th century. The state came into existence on 26 January 1950 when the Constitution...
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    1956, the states of Kerala, and Mysore State were carved out of Madras State. Under the Andhra Pradesh and Madras Alteration of Boundaries Act, 1959, with...
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    Chennai (redirect from Madras, Madras State)
    Ceṉṉai), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India. It is the state's primate city and is located...
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    The third legislative assembly election to the Madras state (presently Tamil Nadu) was held on 21 February 1962. The Indian National Congress party, led...
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    All-India Muslim League was held on 10 March 1948 at the south Indian city of Madras (now Chennai). The party renamed itself as the 'Indian Union Muslim League'...
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    Legislature. 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...
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    The fourth legislative assembly election of Madras State (later renamed as Tamil Nadu) was held in February 1967. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) led...
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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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    Madras state (presently Tamil Nadu) was held on 31 March 1957. This was the first election held after the linguistic reorganisation of Madras State in...
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    Election to the Madras state based on universal adult suffrage was held in 27 March 1952. This was the first election held in Madras state after the Indian...
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  • The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras or IITM) is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the...
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  • Legislative Assembly of Madras state was constituted in May 1952. This was following the first election held in Madras state after the Indian Independence...
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    body for the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He is elected by the members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly (until 1968, the Madras Legislative Assembly)...
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    Andhra State (IAST: Āndhra Stēt; IPA: [ˈɑːndʰrʌ steɪt]) was a state in India created in 1953 from the Telugu-speaking northern districts of Madras State. The...
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  • Look up Madras or madras in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Madras is the former name of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu state in India. Madras may also...
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    India's independence in 1947, Madras State, the precursor to the present day state of Tamil Nadu, was carved out of Madras Presidency. It comprised present-day...
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    districts in the erstwhile Madras Province the boundaries of the present-day Tamil Nadu. Post the reorganization in 1956, Madras state had 13 re-organized districts...
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    of Madras State, were united and organised into the union territory of Lakshadweep. Bombay State was enlarged by the addition of Saurashtra State and...
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    Kerala (redirect from Kerala state)
    later became a part of the Madras State post-independence. After the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, the modern-day state of Kerala was formed by merging...
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    Tamil Nadu (redirect from Tamil Nadu State)
    India as the Madras Presidency for two centuries before Indian Independence in 1947. After independence, the region became the Madras State of the Republic...
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  • in 1975. Chennai (Madras) was the capital of the Madras Presidency since 1839, which was redrawn as Madras State in 1956. Madras State was renamed Tamil...
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  • Appanaickenpatti Pudur, near Coimbatore in Coimbatore district of the erstwhile Madras State. His father was a farmer and his mother was a housewife, who took up...
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  • The Second legislative assembly of Madras state (1 April 1957 – 18 March 1962) was constituted in April 1957 after the assembly election which held in...
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    and the Kasaragod Taluk of South Canara district in Madras State to form the modern Malayalam-state of Kerala on 1 November 1956, according to the States...
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    C. Rajagopalachari (category University of Madras alumni)
    Premier of the Madras Presidency, Governor of West Bengal, Minister for Home Affairs of the Indian Union and Chief Minister of Madras state. Rajagopalachari...
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  • The fourth legislative assembly of Madras state (3 March 1967 – 5 January 1971) was constituted in March 1967 after the assembly election which was held...
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  • the 1952, the demand for creation of a Telugu-majority state in the parts of the Madras State had become powerful. Potti Sreeramulu, a Congress activist...
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  • campaigned for its inclusion in the Madras State (later Tamil Nadu) instead of the Malayalam-majority Kerala state. In Tamil, the campaign is also known...
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    Andhra State consisted of Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions. This state was carved out of the erstwhile Madras State. Later, the Andhra state was merged...
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  • Madras is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language political action drama film written and directed by Pa. Ranjith. The film stars Karthi, Catherine Tresa (marking...
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