• Thumbnail for 1934 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election
    In the fifth legislative council election to Madras Presidency after the establishment of dyarchical system of government by the Government of India Act...
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  • Thumbnail for 1920 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election
    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 second legislative council election for the Madras Presidency after the establishment of a bicameral legislature by the Government of India Act of...
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  • The first legislative council election for the Madras Presidency after the establishment of a bicameral legislature by the Government of India Act of 1935...
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  • Thumbnail for 1930 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election
    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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  • Thumbnail for 1923 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election
    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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  • Thumbnail for 1926 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election
    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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  • Thumbnail for 1937 Madras Presidency Legislative Assembly election
    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 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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  • Thumbnail for Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
    erstwhile Madras Presidency and was formerly known as Madras State. The first legislature of any sort for the Presidency was the Madras Legislative Council, which...
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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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  • Thumbnail for 1952 Madras State Legislative Assembly election
    first legislative assembly Election to the Madras state based on universal adult suffrage was held in 27 March 1952. This was the first election held in...
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  • Thumbnail for 1934 Indian general election
    General elections were held in British India in 1934. The Indian National Congress emerged as the largest party in the Central Legislative Assembly. The...
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    overseen by a chief secretary by 1920. The Indian Councils Act 1861 set up the Madras Legislative Council as an advisory body, without powers, through which...
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    Nadu. It began its existence as Madras Legislative Council, the first provincial legislature for Madras Presidency. It was initially created as an advisory...
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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)...
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    The Council of State was the upper house of the legislature for British India (the Imperial Legislative Council) created by the Government of India Act...
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  • Justice Party (India) (category Political history of the Madras Presidency)
    groups in 1912 in Madras Presidency. The dominance of Brahmins was also evident in the membership of the Madras Legislative Council. During 1910–20, eight...
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  • R. S. Ramakrishna Ranga Rao (category Madras Presidency)
    Party in 1930 and was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly. He served as the First Minister of Madras Presidency from 1932 to 1936 and 1937. He resigned...
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    Kurma Venkata Reddi Naidu (category Members of the Imperial Legislative Council of India)
    the Council of State in 1933-1934 and a member of the Governor's Executive Council, Madras, 1934 -1937. He acted as the Governor of Madras Presidency from...
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    The Central Legislative Assembly was the lower house of the Imperial Legislative Council, the legislature of British India. It was created by the Government...
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    Rajan (22 April 1892 – 25 September 1974) was the First Minister of Madras Presidency from 4 April 1936, to 24 August 1936 (143 Days). He was also the last...
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    P. Subbarayan (category Madras Presidency)
    Presidency College, Trinity College Dublin, the University of London and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1922, he was nominated to the Madras Legislative Council...
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    K. Kamaraj (category Madras MLAs 1957–1962)
    Kamaraj was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly after winning in the 1937 Madras Presidency Legislative Assembly election. He was active during the...
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  • Diarchy was established in Madras Presidency based on the recommendations of the Montague-Chelmsford report. Five elections were held during the period...
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  • Thumbnail for 1937 Indian provincial elections
    were held in eleven provinces - Madras, Central Provinces, Bihar, Orissa, the United Provinces, the Bombay Presidency, Assam, the North-West Frontier...
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  • Thumbnail for 1945 Indian general election
    General elections were held in British India in December 1945 to elect members of the Central Legislative Assembly and the Council of State. The Indian...
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  • "General Election in India Public Apathy", The Times, 26 July 1930, p12, Issue 45575 "New Session in Delhi Friendly House, Communities And Presidency", The...
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    R. K. Shanmukham Chetty (category Madras Christian College alumni)
    the Madras Presidency legislative council elections and was elected to the Madras Legislative Council. He served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council...
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  • Thumbnail for Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
    Hall Madras Presidency. The Justice Party, whose objectives included social equality and justice, came to power in the first general elections to the...
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