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However, it is widely recorded that while the official center of the present settlement was designated Fort St. George, the British applied the name Madras to a new large city which had grown up around the Fort including the "White Town" consisting principally of British settlers, and "Black Town" consisting of principally Catholic Europeans ...
The term "gaanaa" is the colloquial word in Madras for "music", which is of Hindostani origin. In literary Tamil, the word Gaanam (கானம்) means "tune", and in modern Hindi–Urdu gānā means "song". [2] The genre arose in the slums and burial grounds of Madras. [2] Gaana singers have performed in the city for the past two centuries. [2]
Fort St. George (or historically, White Town) [1] is a fortress at the coastal city of Chennai, India. Founded in 1639, it was the first English (later British ) fortress in India. [ 2 ] The construction of the fort provided the impetus for further settlements and trading activity, in what was originally an uninhabited land. [ 3 ]
The White Town was confined inside the walls of Fort St. George and the Black Town outside of it. The Black Town later came to be known as George Town. [16] During this period, the presidency was significantly expanded and reached an extent which continued into the early 19th century. During the early years of the Madras Presidency, the English ...
In 1773, the English erected 13 pillars along the flattened area of the Black Town and banned construction in any form between the pillars and the fort which would otherwise block the view of possible invaders. Soon a new township, known as the new Black Town, came up beyond these pillars and the old Black Town gave way to the Madras High Court.
Madras in 1758 was divided broadly into two distinct parts. The "Black town", or "Great Parachery", where the majority of the native Paraiyar population lived and which was unfortified - and the "White town" where the smaller European population lived, which was dominated by Fort St George. On 14 December, French troops entered the Black town ...
"The Madras Song" is a song by Indian vocalist, Shakthisree Gopalan, and produced by the Murugappa Group as a tribute to the city of Madras (now known as Chennai). "The Madras Song" was launched to commemorate the 375th anniversary of the founding of Madras, celebrated in August 2014.
Lyricist and author Sheila Davis writes that including a city in a song's title helps focus the song on the concrete and specific, which is both more appealing and more likely to lead to universal truth than abstract generalizations. Davis also says that songs with titles concerning cities and other specific places often have enduring ...