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14 unusual facts about Madras Presidency


C. Thiruvenkatacharya

Thiruvenkatacharya (died 1893) was an Indian civil servant and administrator in the Madras Presidency.

H. H. Burkitt

In India, Burkitt served as Assistant Collector and magistrate in the Madras Presidency for sometime before being appointed British Resident to the Cochin kingdom.

H. S. Cunningham

Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham KCIE (1832-1920) was a British lawyer and writer who served as the Advocate-General of Madras Presidency from 1872 to 1877.

INS Dweeprakshak

The Lakshadweep islands were a part of the Madras Presidency under the British Raj and in accordance with the Indian Independence Act 1947, enacted by the British parliament, the islands were transferred to the new Union of India.

J. H. Spring-Branson

In March 1887, he was appointed Acting Advocate-General of Madras Presidency.

James Henry Spring-Branson (June 11, 1842 - April 8, 1897) was a British lawyer who served as the Acting Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency.

Northern Circars

The Northern Circars were governed as part of Madras Presidency until India's independence in 1947, after which the presidency became India's Madras state.

The Northern Circars was a former division of British India's Madras Presidency, which consisted of a narrow slip of territory lying along the western side of the Bay of Bengal from 15° 40' to 20° 17' north latitude, in the present-day Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.

Patrick Alexander Vans Agnew

Vans Agnew was the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Vans Agnew, a Madras officer of considerable reputation, and afterwards a director of the East India Company.

Saiva Vellalar

He was the author of the Communal Government Order in Madras Presidency in 1928.

Slavery in Madras Presidency

Slavery in Madras Presidency during the early 19th century was confined to transfer of agricultural labourers (referred as pannaiyals) from one landlord to the other.

Slavery in Madras Presidency during the early 19th century was confined to transfer of agricultural labourers from one landlord to the other, but later periods saw slavery throughout their life for non-payment of debt.

Venkatagiri estate

The estate of Venkatagiri was a estate in the erstwhile Madras Presidency.

Vizagapatam Hill Tracts Agency

The Vizagapatam Hill Tracts Agency was an agency in the Madras Presidency of British India.


Bangalore Nagarathnamma

Along with T. Balasaraswathi in the Madras Presidency, Nagarathnamma virulently opposed the abolition of devadasi system and fought a losing battle with social reformers like Kandukuri Veeresalingam.

C. A. White

Sir Charles Arnold White was an Indian lawyer who served as the Advocate-General of Madras Presidency from 1898 to 1899 and Chief Justice of the Madras High Court.

Castes and Tribes of Southern India

Castes and Tribes of Southern India is a seven-volume encyclopedia of social groups of Madras Presidency and the princely states of Travancore, Mysore, Coorg and Pudukkottai published by British museologist Edgar Thurston and K. Rangachari in 1909.

Dandapani Desikar

Dandapani Desikar was born in Tiruchengattangudi, near Nannilam in Madras Presidency.

Ernest Forrester Paton

He was the co-founder of Christukula Ashram, the first Protestant Christian Ashram in India, along with S. Jesudasan, a fellow missionary and Tamilian convert to Christianity, at Tirupattur of North Arcot, Tamilnadu—part of then-Madras Presidency in South India.

Hindu Higher Secondary School

The schools roots are in two boys' schools in the Triplicane area of Madras, the Dravida Pathasala (Pathasala means school in Sanskrit) for Tamil boys and the Hindu Balura Pathsala for Telugu boys.

K. Rajah Iyer

Rajah Iyer (15 July 1890 - 18 February 1974) was an Indian lawyer of the Madras High Court who served as Advocate-General of Madras Presidency from July 1945 to 1950.

R. Venkataraman

Venkataraman was born in Rajamadam village in Tanjore district, Madras Presidency.

Raja of Chettinad

The Raja of Chettinad was an honorary title bestowed on the head of the S. Rm. M. family of Kanadukathan in the Chettinad region by the government of the Madras Presidency during the British Raj era in India.

S. Rm. M. Annamalai Chettiar

Annamalai Chettiar was born on September 30, 1881 at Kanadukathan in the Sivaganga estate of the then Madura district in the Madras Presidency of British India.

Sembium-Ayanavaram municipality

It was a sub - taluk of Saidapettai taluk of Old Chinglepet District.

Tiruchirappalli district

During the British Raj, Tiruchirappalli was known as Trichinopoly, and was a district of the Madras Presidency; it was renamed upon India's declaration of independence in 1947.

Vadakalai

Premier of Madras (1937–1939), Governor of Bengal (1946–1948), Governor-General of India (1948–1950), Union Home Minister (1950–1952) and Chief Minister of Madras state (1952–1954).