Madras Presidency (also known as Madras Province and known officially as Presidency of Fort St. George) was an administrative subdivision (presidency)...

The Madras Presidency or Madras Province, officially called the Presidency of Fort St. George until 1937, was an administrative subdivision (province)...

Party championed the cause of non-Brahmins in Madras presidency, non-Brahmins within the Congress party founded the MPA (Madras Presidency Association) It...

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...

May 2021. The Madras Presidency, headquartered in Fort St. George, India, was a presidency of India that comprised present day Tamil Nadu, the Malabar region...

established in Madras Presidency based on the recommendations of the Montague-Chelmsford report. Five elections were held during the period diarchy was...

the culmination of several efforts to establish an organisation to represent the non-Brahmins in Madras Presidency. The Brahmins in Madras Presidency...

the Madras Presidency during the British Raj affected close to 20% of the population. Madras Presidency was an administrative subdivision (presidency)...

served their terms, Madras was upgraded to a Presidency during the time of Aaron Baker. However financial considerations forced the company to revert to...

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...

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 taluks...

region and established the Madras Presidency with Madras as the capital. The British Empire took control of the region from the British East India Company...

The bombardment of Madras was an engagement of the First World War, at Madras (now Chennai), British India. The bombardment was initiated by the German...

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 oldest...

composed primarily of Indian sepoys. The presidency armies were named after the presidencies: the Bengal Army, the Madras Army and the Bombay Army. Initially...

The Battle of Madras or Fall of Madras took place in September 1746 during the War of the Austrian Succession when a French force attacked and captured...

The Justice Party, officially the South Indian Liberal Federation, was a political party in the Madras Presidency of British India. It was established...

Zamindaris were established in the Madras Presidency by the government of the British East India Company starting from 1799 onwards. These settlements...

The second legislative assembly election for the Madras Presidency after the establishment of a bicameral legislature by the Government of India Act of...

origin from the erstwhile Madras Presidency army of the British Raj. This regiment has its HQ in Bengaluru. The Madras Sappers are the oldest of the three groups...

The first legislative assembly election for the Madras Presidency was held in February 1937, as part of the nationwide provincial elections in British...

erstwhile Madras Presidency and was formerly known as Madras State. The first legislature of any sort for the Presidency was the Madras Legislative Council...

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 towns of Kassergode...

The first legislative council election to Madras Presidency after the establishment of dyarchical system of government by the Government of India Act...

The law was passed in the Madras Presidency and gave devadasis the legal right to marry and made it illegal to dedicate girls to Hindu temples. The bill...

The Bank of Madras was one of the three Presidency Banks of British India, along with the Bank of Bengal and the Bank of Bombay. It was established on...

to trial the employment of Coorg tribesmen in the Indian Army. Until 1901 the regiment was designated as the 11th Madras Infantry. In 1902 the regiment...

district in the Madras Presidency of British India. It covered the area of the present-day districts of Cuddalore, Kallakurichi and Viluppuram in the Indian...

The first Indian Councils Act of 1861 set up the Madras Legislative Council as an advisory body through which the colonial administration obtained advice...

recruitment for most of the Madras regiments of the Indian Army shifted to the "martial races" of the Punjab and other northern regions. The Palamcottah Light...