• "Madras Central" is an English poem and the best known work of Vijay Nambisan, the Indian poet, writer and journalist. The poem won First Prize in the...
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    Chennai Central (officially Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G. Ramachandran Central Railway Station, formerly Madras Central) (station code: MAS), is an NSG–1...
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  • All India Poetry Prize winner in 1988 for his poem Madras Central. Vijay Nambisan graduated from IIT Madras, Chennai. He married the novelist and doctor...
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  • change the name of Madras State to Tamil Nadu. This was achieved through the Madras State (Alteration of Name) Act, 1968 (Central Act 53 of 1968) which...
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    located in Kerala, a coastal southern state of India. Paradesi Jews of Madras (now Chennai) traded in Golconda diamonds, precious stones, and corals....
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    Ay-Vel country ("the fertile country along with its magnificent treasures") (Madras Museum Plates of Jatila Parantaka, 17th year). This event is also remembered...
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    established in 1916 by the then Government of Madras and subsequently it was taken over by the Indian Central Coconut Committee in 1948 "Indian Society for...
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  • during his student days at Madras Christian College in 1917–18. He used the local dialects of Godavari and Visakha areas in his poems and received mixed criticism...
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     51. ISBN 978-81-206-0151-2. Madras (India : State). Public Department, Madras (India : State). Home Department, Madras (India : State). Finance Department...
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    There are two zoos recognised by the Central Zoo Authority of India namely Arignar Anna Zoological Park and Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, both located in...
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    11 December 1882 in the village of Ettayapuram in Tirunelveli district, Madras Presidency (present day Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu) to Chinnaswami...
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    in Madras University's Master's degree courses in 1908-09. Over the next few decades, other such works were also included in the curriculum of Madras University...
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    in the Madras Presidency. C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji) was the first Chief Minister. Madras Presidency was eventually reconstituted as Madras State. Following...
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    few months in Madras before proceeding to Calcutta to continue his Sanskrit studies. At Calcutta, he studied at Tarka sastra at the Central Hindu College...
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    Ramayana (category 7th-century BC poems)
    Purananuru. Madras.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Dikshitar, V R Ramachandra (1939). The Silappadikaram. Madras, British India:...
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    Charlu, Madras (1895–1903) Rahimtulla M. Sayani, Bombay (1896–1898) Nawab Amiruddin Ahmad Khan of Loharu (1897) Balwant Rao Bhuskute, Central Provinces...
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    completed his schooling at Veniyambadi and Calicut. He attended college at Madras and Aligarh but discontinued his studies at Aligarh University to participate...
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    Muziris found mention in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, the bardic Tamil poems and a number of classical sources. It was the major ancient port city of...
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    Tamil Nadu. The strait is named after Robert Palk, who was a governor of Madras (1755–1763) during the Company Raj period. The unique feature around Palk...
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  • Justice Party (India) (category Political history of the Madras Presidency)
    political party in the Madras Presidency of British India. It was established on 20 November 1916 in Victoria Public Hall in Madras by Dr C. Natesa Mudaliar...
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    opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was...
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    imposition. He also published a poem and an editorial in the magazine against M. Bhaktavatsalam the then Chief Minister of Madras State (now Tamil Nadu). As...
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    Akanaṉūṟu (category Ancient Indian poems)
    Technology Madras. Archived from the original on 21 January 2004. Reddy 2003, p. A-240 Dakshinamurthy, A (July 2015). "Akananuru: Neytal – Poem 70". Akananuru...
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    M. Karunanidhi (category Madras MLAs 1957–1962)
    Karunanidhi started his political career in 1957, when he was voted to the Madras state legislature. When the DMK first entered the state legislature the...
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    merchant family in Erode, then a part of the Coimbatore district of the Madras Presidency. Ramasamy's father was Venkatappa Nayakar (or Venkata), and his...
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    Ramavataram (category Epic poems in Tamil)
    Purananuru. Madras.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Dikshitar, V R Ramachandra (1939). The Silappadikaram. Madras, British India:...
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    speakers in the former Madras Presidency sought to make Madras the capital of Andhra Pradesh, adopting the slogan Madras manade ("Madras is ours"). However...
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    Page 1 by University of Madras – 1960 The Periplus of the Erythræan Sea by Wilfred Harvey Schoff Edgar Thurston (2011). The Madras Presidency with Mysore...
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    eight-year-old. At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary...
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    University, Chidambaram. On health grounds, he resigned the post, came to Madras and continued his research. Another significant contribution made by Swaminatha...
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