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Accepting this suggestion, the first Madras Post Office with fixed postal charges—the Madras GPO—was established by Governor Sir Archibald Campbell (1786–1790), who also established the Male and Female Orphan Asylums (that developed as St. George's School), and the postal service was thus made a government facility.
In 1902, the current name, Madras, was adopted. [2] A post office called Powellville was established in 1871, and the post office's name was changed to Madras in 1902. [4] The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the place in 1893 as the "Town of Powellville". [5]
The Post Office Department of the East India Company was first established on 31 March 1774 at Calcutta, [5] followed in 1778 at Madras and in 1792 at Bombay. [6] After 1793, when Cornwallis introduced the Regulation of the Permanent Settlement , the financial responsibility for maintaining the official posts rested with the zamindars .
In the same year, a link with Bombay was established then in 1837, the Madras, Bombay and Calcutta mail services were integrated to form the All-India Service. On 1 October 1854, the first stamps were issued by the Imperial Postal Service. The General Post Office (GPO), Madras, was established by Sir Archibald Campbell in 1786.
The Madras Record Office, currently known as Tamil Nadu Archives (TNA), is located in Chennai and is one of the oldest and largest document repositories in Southern India. . Documents stored and archived in TNA are invaluable to researchers working on post-independence Tamil Nadu or British-era Madras Presiden
Office of The Mail in Anna Salai, Chennai. The Mail, known as The Madras Mail till 1928, was an English-language daily evening newspaper published in the Madras Presidency (later Madras State, and then, Tamil Nadu) from 1868 to 1981. It was the first evening newspaper in India which is now operating as a news and media website. [1] [2]
Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) [2] is a local government for the City of Chennai in the Chennai Metropolitan Area of Tamil Nadu, India.Inaugurated on 29 September 1688, under a royal charter issued by King James II of England on 30 December 1687 as the Corporation of Madras, it is the oldest municipal body of the Commonwealth of Nations outside Great Britain.
The Government Savings Bank Act, 1873 (5 of 1873), passed by the legislature 28 January 1873, was enacted in 1881. On 1 April 1882, Post Office Savings Banks opened throughout India (except in the Bombay Presidency). In Madras Presidency, it was limited; in the Bengal Presidency, no POSBs were established in Calcutta or Howrah. [13]