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Saidapet, also known as Saidai, is a neighbourhood in Chennai, India, situated in the northern banks of the Adyar River and serves as an entry point to Central Chennai. It is surrounded by West Mambalam in the North, C.I.T Nagar in the North-East, Nandanam in the East, Guindy in the South, Jafferkhanpet and Ashok Nagar in the North-West.
The district was sub-divided into three sub-divisions each under the charge of a Deputy Collector: Chingleput sub-division: Chingleput, Madurantakam and Conjeevaram taluks; Saidapet sub-division: Saidapet taluk; Tiruvallur sub-division: Tiruvallur and Ponneri taluks. As of 1901, the district had two municipalities Conjeevaram and Chingleput.
Saidapet is a constituency of the legislative assembly of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It covers the city of Saidapet in Chennai district [ 2 ] and forms a part of Chennai South constituency for elections to the Parliament of India .
Saidapet is a former municipality that comprised the villages of Adyar, Mambalam, Kodambakkam, Puliyur, Saali Garamam, and Teynampet.T. Nagar, the major business hub of Chennai, was once part of Saidapet municipality.
In the Indian administrative context, states adopt various nomenclatures for their sub-district divisions, including Tehsil, Taluk, Circle, Subdivision, and Mandal. Notably, Tehsil predominates in North Indian states, whereas Taluk is prevalent in South Indian states.
Prior to its inclusion in the then city of Madras, Mambalam was a village in the Saidapet taluk of Chingleput district. [2] The oldest surviving reference to Mambalam is believed to be in a 1726 stone plaque commemorating the construction of the Marmalong Bridge (now known as Maraimalai Adigal Bridge) across the Adyar river by the merchant Coja Petrus Uscan.
Tehsil/tahsil and taluk/taluka and the variants are used as English words without further translation. Since these terms are unfamiliar to English speakers outside the subcontinent , the word county has sometimes been provided as a gloss , on the basis that a tehsil, like a county, is an administrative unit hierarchically above the local city ...
Chinnamalai, translated in English as Little Mount, [1] is a hillock that lies on the bank of Adayar River in the Saidapet taluk of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.Anna Salai, previously called Mount Road, is a long road in Chennai that stretches between Chennai northern side to the southern side at Little Mount. [2]