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The Madras Presidency had the highest literacy rate of all the provinces in British India. [208] In 1901, Madras had a male literacy rate of 11.9 percent and a female literacy rate of 0.9 percent. [209] In 1950, when the Madras Presidency became Madras State, the literacy rate was slightly higher than the national average of 18 percent. [210]
Map of "Madras Presidency" from Pope, G. U. (1880) 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 of Karnataka, Kerala and Odisha. A few princely states, notably Ramnad and Pudukkottai also
Penang: became a residency within the Bengal Presidency in 1786, the fourth presidency of India in 1805, part of the presidency of the Straits Settlements until 1830, again part of a residency within the Bengal Presidency when the Straits Settlements became so, and finally separated from British India in 1867.
The Indian National Congress was elected to power in 1937 [32] for the first time in Madras Presidency and barring the six years when Madras was in a state of Emergency, ruled the Presidency till India got independence on 15 August 1947. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari was the first Chief Minister of Madras Presidency from the Congress party.
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The largest of these were Jeypore Estate which was the largest amongst all zamindaris in the Presidency with an area of 12,000 square miles (31,000 km 2), Vizianagaram with 2,970 square miles (7,700 km 2), Ramnad, Ganapur and Sivaganga, Ramnad and Sivaganga being demoted princely states, were larger in size than the princely states of Cochin or ...
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He supervised the foreign relations of the princely states and their relationship with the Central government in New Delhi. The agency was abolished when India became independent in 1947. Between 1947 and 1950, the Madras states with the exception of Travancore and Cochin were merged with the neighbouring districts of Madras Province.