Madura

Madura
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Presidency: Madras Presidency
Coordinates:	9.919662°N 78.119393°E
Altitude:	31 m (101 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Madurai
State/Province:	Tamil Nadu
Country:	India
Transport links
South Indian Railway

FibiWiki Maps
See our interactive map of this location showing places of interest during the British period
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Madura was the headquarters of the Madura District in the Madras Presidency during the British period.

Madura station was on the South Indian Railway metre gauge (MG) 'Madras-Tuticorin Mainline' and formed a junction with the Tuticorin Branch Line to Tuticorin and the Pamban Branch Railway to Mandapam and Rameswaram

Spelling variants

Modern spelling: Madurai
Variants: Madura

Military

There were sieges of the city by the British in 1763 and 1764.

External links

• Madura City Imperial Gazetteer
  
• "Namma Madurai - Elegies from a bygone era" by S. S. Kavitha November 30, 2011. The Hindu. St. George's English Cemetery and the American Mission Cemetery

Sieges 1763-1764

• Maruthanayagam Pillai a.k.a. Muhammad Yusuf Khan. Wikipedia
• "Maruthanayagam: The Khan Sahib Of Madura" by Refai Salafis 6 November 2019 Madras Courier
• A plan of Madura, catalogued as Rajshahi Revolt against British Rule (1763-4). George III's collection of military maps, Royal Collection Trust.
• Yusuf Khan : the Rebel Commandant. "The bravest and ablest of all the native soldiers that ever served the English in India" by S C Hill, formerly Officer in charge of the records of the Government of India. 1914 Archive.org. Contains part of the same map in the link above, with a translation of the information, page 266.