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Districts of Madras in 1956 with 2009 boundaries in gray. During the British Raj, the Madras Presidency was made up of 26 districts, 12 of which were part of the boundaries of the present-day Tamil Nadu, namely, Chingleput, Coimbatore, Nilgiris, North Arcot, Madras, Madura, Ramnad, Salem, South Arcot, Tanjore, Tinnevely, and Trichinopoly.
The present day city of Chennai, then Madras was given as a grant by the Kalahasti Nayak on Francis Day in 1640. [3] [4] Madras was an important battle site during the Carnatic Wars between the English and the French. [5] For a long time, Madras was the administrative capital of the Presidency.
A 1652 Map of India (Malabar is highlighted separately on the right side) A 1744 map of Malabar Coast. The district lay between the Arabian Sea on the west, South Canara District on the north, the Western Ghats (the princely states of Coorg and Mysore, and Nilgiris and Coimbatore districts) to the east, and the princely state of Cochin to the ...
Chennai district covers an area of 426 km 2 located on the Eastern Coastal Plains of India. It is situated on the northeastern corner of Tamil Nadu along the Coramandel coast, a region bounded by the Bay of Bengal and is surrounded inland by the districts of Tiruvallur, Kanchipuram and Chengalpattu.
Pages in category "Districts of the Madras Presidency" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Mangalore was the administrative headquarters of the district. The district covered an area of 10,410 square kilometres (4,021 sq mi). South Canara District was bordered by North Canara to north, the princely state of Mysore to east, Coorg state to southeast, Malabar District to south, and Arabian Sea to west.
Chola conquests during Rajendra Chola I. The coast of Tamil Nadu was a part of ancient silk route and played an important role in spice trade with western empires. Roman and Greek traders frequented the ancient Tamil country securing trade with the seafaring Tamil states of the Pandyan, Chola and Chera dynasties and establishing trading settlements which secured trade with South Asia by the ...
Madras State was a state of India which was in existence during the mid-20th century. The state came into existence on 26 January 1950 when the Constitution of India was adopted and included the present-day Tamil Nadu, Kerala and parts of neighbouring states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.