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== Maps==
== Maps==
[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/fullscreen.php?object=51 Madras Presidency northern section] Imperial Gazetteer<br>
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-ra131-s28 1850 Map of the Diocese of Madras] ''The Colonial Church Atlas 3rd Edition 1850''.  National Library of Australia Digital Collections-Maps [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3667353 Catalogue entry]
[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/fullscreen.php?object=50 Madras Presidency southern section] Imperial Gazetteer
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/fullscreen.php?object=51 1931: Madras Presidency northern section] Imperial Gazetteer<br>
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/fullscreen.php?object=50 1931: Madras Presidency southern section] Imperial Gazetteer


== External Links ==
== See also==
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=V2nGnWXV7coC&pg=PA9&dq=The+history+of+British+India:+a+chronology%2Madras%2BPresidency%2B1756&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false Madras Presidency 1611-1755] Google Books<br>
*[[Madras Districts]]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Presidency Madras Presidency] Wikipedia
 
== External links ==
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=V2nGnWXV7coC&pg=PA9&dq=The+history+of+British+India:+a+chronology%2Madras%2BPresidency%2B1756&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false Madras Presidency 1611-1755] Google Books<br>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Presidency Madras Presidency] Wikipedia
*[http://www.tnarchives.tn.gov.in/gazzetters.html District Gazetteers] Lists  (some of) the various editions which have been published. Department of Archives and Historical Research, Government of Tamil Nadu
*[http://spuddybike.org.uk/familyhistory/madras/churches/index.html  Churches and Chapels in Madras Presidency] spuddybike.org.uk Retrieved. 26 October 2014


====Historical books online====
====Historical books online====
Also see [[Madras (City)]]
*''Bengal and Madras papers: recounting the growth of British power in India'' edited by G W Forrest 1928. Published by Imperial Record Department, Calcutta.
:[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35331 Volume I [1670-1688<nowiki>]</nowiki>]; [https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/21510 Vol. II [1688-1757<nowiki>]</nowiki>]; [https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/21511 Vol. III [1757-1785<nowiki>]</nowiki>]. Links to  pdf downloads Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.109698/page/n3/mode/2up Vol. I], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31988/page/n3/mode/2up Vol. I, 2nd file]; [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.109699/page/n3/mode/2up Vol.II], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31989/page/n5/mode/2up Vol.II, 2nd file]; [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.109700/page/n3/mode/2up Vol.III]. All Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/ageographicalac00bowrgoog#page/n8/mode/2up  ''A Geographical Account of Countries Round the Bay of Bengal, 1669 to 1679'']  by Thomas Bowrey, edited by Sir Richard Carnac Temple 1905 Archive.org.  Includes [http://www.archive.org/stream/ageographicalac00bowrgoog#page/n22/mode/2up Madras and the Coromandel Coast]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/ageographicalac00bowrgoog#page/n8/mode/2up  ''A Geographical Account of Countries Round the Bay of Bengal, 1669 to 1679'']  by Thomas Bowrey, edited by Sir Richard Carnac Temple 1905 Archive.org.  Includes [http://www.archive.org/stream/ageographicalac00bowrgoog#page/n22/mode/2up Madras and the Coromandel Coast]
*[http://archive.org/stream/amanualkistnadi01mackgoog#page/n9/mode/2up ''A Manual of the Kistna District in the Presidency of Madras''] by Gordon Thomson Mackenzie 1883 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.92492/mode/2up ''Records of Fort St. George. James Strange’s Journal and Narrative of the Commercial Expedition From Bombay to the North-West Coast of America, together with a Chart showing the Tract of the Expedition''], with an Introduction by the Curator, Madras Records Office, published 1928. Archive.org. James Strange was in the Madras Civil Service. The journey took place August 1785 to May 1787.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284859/mode/2up ''An accurate and authentic narrative of the origin and progress of the dissentions at the Presidency of Madras: founded on original papers and correspondence''] 1810. Missing at least one page which may be found in [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.00040 File 2], however generally the 1st file is better quality. Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=TeYGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR4 ''The Road Book of India; or, East Indian traveller's guide through the presidencies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay''] by John B Seely, Captain Bombay Army. 1825 Google Books.  Contains many place names.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OARXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''The Madras Road Book. Edition - 1839''], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OARXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA143 Index],  [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OARXAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA3 Alphabetical List of the Madras Collectorates] with details. Google Books
*''Statistics of the Colonies of the British Empire from the Official Records of the Colonial Office'' by  Robert Montgomery Martin 1839 Google Books. ''Book IV- Possessions in Asia'' [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PvtqMe2cxhoC&pg=PA273 "Chapter I-Hindostan"] pages 273-368
*[https://archive.org/details/routesinpeninsu00scotgoog ''‪Routes in the Peninsula of India‬: ‪Comprising the Whole of the Madras Presidency and Portions of the Adjacent Territories of Bengal and Bombay''‬] by Major F H Scott, Quartermaster General of the Madras Army 1853  Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/atlasofsouthernp00phar ''An Atlas of the Southern Part of India, including plans of all the principal towns & cantonments, reduced from the grand trigonometrical survey of India, shewing also the Tenasserim Provinces''] 1854. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/atlasofsouthernp00phar#page/n8/mode/1up Contents].  Also available on [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t6b285086?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Hathi Trust Digital Library] where the pages can be rotated, (but the images may be difficult to enlarge).
*[https://archive.org/details/b2809265x ''Reports on mountain and marine sanitaria; medical and statistical observations on civil stations and military cantonments, jails - dispensaries - regiments - barracks, &c. within the Presidency of Madras, the Straits of Malacca, the Andaman Islands, and British Burmah from January 1858 to January 1862''] by Inspector General of Hospitals Duncan Macpherson. 1862 Archive.org. Part of the series ''Selections from the Records of the Madras Government''.
*''Manuals'' of the ''Districts''
**[https://archive.org/details/manualbellarydi00kelsgoog  ''Manual of the Bellary District''] by John Kelsall, Madras Civil Service, Acting Sub-Collector, North Arcot 1872. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.12210 ''Manual of the District of Cuddapah in the Presidency of Madras''] by J D B Gribble 1875 Archive.org. Mirror of a file  at Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online.
**[http://archive.org/stream/amanualkistnadi01mackgoog#page/n9/mode/2up ''A Manual of the Kistna District in the Presidency of Madras''] by Gordon Thomson Mackenzie 1883 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.12208 ''Manual of the Kurnool District In the Presidency of Madras''] by  Narahari Gopalakrishnamah Chetty (Comp.) 1886 Archive.org. Mirror of a file at Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online.
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kXooAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''A Manual of the Nellore District in the Presidency of Madras''] by John Alexander Corrie Boswell, Collector and Magistrate of the Kistna District 1873 Google Books
**[http://archive.org/stream/manualofnlagir00grigrich#page/n5/mode/2up ''A Manual of the Nílagiri District in the Madras Presidency''] by Henry Bidewell Grigg 1880 Archive.org
**''A Manual of the Salem District in the Presidency of Madras'' by Henry Le Fanu 1883 Archive.org [http://archive.org/stream/amanualsalemdis00fanugoog#page/n3/mode/2up ''Volume I: The District''],  [http://archive.org/stream/amanualsalemdis01fanugoog#page/n3/mode/2up ''Volume II: The Taluks'']
**[https://archive.org/details/manualsoutharco00garsgoog ''Manual of the South Arcot District''] by J H Garstin, Collector of South Arcot. 1878 Archive.org. Also available  at Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online, with a [https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.12222 mirror version on Archive.org]
**[http://archive.org/stream/manualoftinnevel00stuarich#page/n3/mode/2up ''A Manual of the Tinnevelly District in the Presidency of Madras''] by Andrew John Stuart 1879 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.12224 ''Manual of the Trichinopoly District in the Presidency of Madras''] by Lewis Moore (Comp.) 1878 Archive.org. Mirror of a file  at Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online.
**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1rE5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7  ''A Manual of the District of Vizagapatam, in the Presidency of Madras''] by D. F. Carmichael 1869 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/adescriptiveand00morrgoog ''A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Godavery District in the Presidency of Madras''] by Henry Morris 1878 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/apoliticalandge00caldgoog ''A Political and General History of the District of Tinnevelly, in the Presidency of Madras from the earliest period to its cession to the Engliah Government in AD 1801''] by Rev R Caldwell 1881 Archive.org
*''Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series    Madras'' [http://archive.org/stream/madras00unkngoog#page/n6/mode/2up  Volume I],  [http://archive.org/stream/madras01unkngoog#page/n6/mode/2up  Volume II] 1908 Archive.org
*''Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series    Madras'' [http://archive.org/stream/madras00unkngoog#page/n6/mode/2up  Volume I],  [http://archive.org/stream/madras01unkngoog#page/n6/mode/2up  Volume II] 1908 Archive.org
*''Madras District Gazetteers'' Archive.org
*''Madras District Gazetteers'' mainly Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/anantapurvolume00frangoog ''Anantapur''] by W Francis 1905. Catalogued Volume 2, but in fact is Volume 1.
**[https://archive.org/details/statisticalappen02madriala ''Anjengo Volume II: Statistical Appendix'']  1915
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.46792/page/n5 ''Madras District Gazetteers: Bellary''] by W Francis 1904.
*:[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.1430/page/n5/mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers: Bellary'']  by W Francis 1916. 
**[https://archive.org/details/cuddapah01madr ''Madras District Gazetteers: Cuddapah''] by C F Brackenbury ICS 1915
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/godavari01madr#page/n9/mode/2up  ''Madras District Gazetteers: Godaveri''] 1915
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/godavari01madr#page/n9/mode/2up  ''Madras District Gazetteers: Godaveri''] 1915
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/madurafrancis01madr#page/n5/mode/2up  ''Madras District Gazetteers: Madura''] 1906
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/madurafrancis01madr#page/n5/mode/2up  ''Madras District Gazetteers: Madura''] 1906
**[https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.75585/page/n3 ''Madras District Gazetteers Malabar. Vol. 1''] by C A Innes 1951 edition with additional information and  incorporating 1908 edition Archive.org.  Mirror of a book from Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online,  catalogue no.  75585.
*:[https://archive.org/details/malabarandanjen00innegoog ''Malabar, Volume II: Statistical Appendix''] 1905
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/NilgirisFrancis/Untitled#page/n0/mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers: The Nilgiris''] 1908  
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/NilgirisFrancis/Untitled#page/n0/mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers: The Nilgiris''] 1908  
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/p1salemrich01richuoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers:  Salem Volume 1-Part 1''] 1918, [http://www.archive.org/stream/salemgazet02richuoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers:  Statistical Appendix for Salem District''] 1932
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/p1salemrich01richuoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers:  Salem Volume 1-Part 1''] 1918, [http://www.archive.org/stream/salemgazet02richuoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers:  Statistical Appendix for Salem District''] 1932
**''Madras District Gazetteers: Tanjore'' by F R Hemingway 
*:1906 edition [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.13345 Archive.org  version];  1915 edition  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.1428/page/n3 Archive.org  version]. Originally from Digital Library of India.
**[https://archive.org/details/GazeetersTinnevellyVol11917  ''Madras District Gazetteers: Tinnevelly Volume I''] by  H R Pate ICS 1917
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/trichinopoly01madr#page/n9/mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers: Trichinopoly''] 1907
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/trichinopoly01madr#page/n9/mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers: Trichinopoly''] 1907
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/vizagapatam01madr#page/n5/mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers:  Vizagapatam''] 1907
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/vizagapatam01madr#page/n5/mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers:  Vizagapatam''] 1907
:Many editions for additional districts are available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India|Digital Library of India]] website, under the title ''Madras District Gazetteers''  
 
:There may be additional volumes available to read online on Archive.org as [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Madras+District+Gazetteers%29&sort=titleSorter ''Madras District Gazetteers''], or try searching by District  name.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''A Handbook for India: Being an Account of the Three Presidencies, and of the Overland Route; intended as a guide for Travellers, Officers and Civilians. Part I Madras''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''A Handbook for India: Being an Account of the Three Presidencies, and of the Overland Route; intended as a guide for Travellers, Officers and Civilians. Part I Madras''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbookmadrasp00firgoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''Handbook of the Madras Presidency''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 2nd edition, (almost entirely rewritten) 1879 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbookmadrasp00firgoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''Handbook of the Madras Presidency''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 2nd edition, (almost entirely rewritten) 1879 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=alwOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Regulations and Acts in force within the Madras Presidency''] by Richard Clarke 1848 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=alwOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Regulations and Acts in force within the Madras Presidency''] by Richard Clarke 1848 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LNApAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Madras: Report of the Railway Department 1853''] Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LNApAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Madras: Report of the Railway Department 1853''] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/madrasitscivilad00smolrich  ''Madras: Its civil administration; being rough notes from personal observation written in 1855 and 1856''] by Patrick B Smollett 1858 Archive.org
*''Report on the administration of the Madras Presidency for the Year...''
*''Report on the administration of the Madras Presidency for the Year...''
:[http://books.google.com/books?id=_oAZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover 1862-63] 1864, [http://books.google.com/books?id=5iUbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1  1864-65] 1866, [http://books.google.com/books?id=vUQbAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover 1865-66] 1866, [http://books.google.com/books?id=TRUTAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover 1867-68] 1868, [http://books.google.com/books?id=vhUTAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover 1868-69] 1869 Google Books; [http://www.archive.org/stream/reportonadminis00statgoog#page/n4/mode/2up  1869-70] 1870, [http://www.archive.org/stream/reportonadminis00goog#page/n4/mode/2up  1870-71] 1872 Archive.org
:[http://books.google.com/books?id=_oAZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover 1862-63] 1864, [http://books.google.com/books?id=5iUbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1  1864-65] 1866, [http://books.google.com/books?id=vUQbAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover 1865-66] 1866, [http://books.google.com/books?id=TRUTAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover 1867-68] 1868, [http://books.google.com/books?id=vhUTAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover 1868-69] 1869 Google Books; [http://www.archive.org/stream/reportonadminis00statgoog#page/n4/mode/2up  1869-70] 1870, [http://www.archive.org/stream/reportonadminis00goog#page/n4/mode/2up  1870-71] 1872 Archive.org
*''The Annals of Indian Administration'', edited by Meredith Townsend and later George Smith. Selected extracts from the Records of the Indian, Bengal, Madras Bombay, NWP, and Punjab and perhaps other Governments. Google Books. Many additional volumes up to Volume 19 1873-74 may be viewed online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=AAcoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5 ‪''The Indian Official Thesaurus‬: ‪Being Introductory to Annals of Indian Administration''] Compiled by Meredith Townsend 1858‬ ‪Google Books.  A guide to records.
**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OqsEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 Part I 1856], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=YrAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR6 Part VI 1858], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jrAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7  Volume 3, Part 2 June 1859], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=p7AEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR4 Volume 4, Part 1 March 1860], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=frIEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume 14 1868-69].
*''The Annals of Indian Administration'', edited by Meredith Townsend and later George Smith. Selected extracts from the Records of the Indian, Bengal, Madras Bombay, NWP, and Punjab and perhaps other Governments.
*Madras Almanac and Directory.There were various titles  over time.The following books are available to read online on [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.
**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OqsEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 Part I 1856], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=YrAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR6 Part VI 1858], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jrAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7  Volume 3, Part 2 June 1859], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=p7AEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR4 Volume 4, Part 1 March 1860], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=frIEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume 14 1868-69]. Google Books
**''The Madras Almanac and Compendium of Intelligence''  
**Many additional volume may be viewed on Archive.org [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Annals+of+Indian+Administration%29&sort=-date ''Annals of Indian Administration'']
***1857 Summary of contents, computer page 6, detailed contents, computer page 8
*Madras Almanac and Directory.There were various titles  over time. See [[Directories online#Madras|'''Directories online - Madras''']]
**''The Madras New Almanac and Compendium of Intelligence''
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=cxtYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP5 ‪''Manual of Rules and Regulations compiled for the use of Junior Members of the Madras Civil Service. Brought up to 31st January 1870'']‬  by William Donald Google Books
*** 1861 Summary of contents, computer page 8, detailed contents, computer page 10
*''Memoirs of the life and correspondence of the Reverend Christian Frederick Swartz, to which is prefixed a Sketch of the history of Christianity in India'' by Hugh Pearson, Dean of Salisbury  2nd Edition 1835 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PHDMBnALbxUC&pg=PR3 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vsiRnK4F6egC&pg=PR1Volume II], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=x20eAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 First American edition (abridged) 1835] Google Books
**''The Asylum Press Almanack and Directory of Madras and Southern India''  
*''The Church in Madras : being the History of the Ecclesiastical and Missionary Action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras'' by  Rev Frank Penny 1904 Archive.org
***1918 Includes Burma. Summary of  Contents, computer page 26. General Index missing.
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/churchinmadrasbe01penn#page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume 1 In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries''] [http://www.archive.org/stream/churchinmadrasbe02penn#page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume 2 1805 to 1835''] [http://www.archive.org/stream/churchinmadrasbe03penn#page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume 3 1835 to 1861'']
***1919 Includes Burma. Summary of Contents, computer page 30. General Index commences computer page 2116, but is only two pages A- Bolarum
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.118293/page/n3/mode/2up ''On the Coromandel Coast''] by F. E. Penny 1908. Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. Also see [[Madras (City)]] for further books by Fanny Emily Penny, the wife of Rev Frank Penny, see item above.
***1924 Includes Nizam’s Dominions, Mysore, Travancore and Cochin. Contents, computer page 44
:[https://archive.org/details/southernindia00pennuoft ''Southern India''] Painted by Lady Lawler, Described by F E Penny 1914 Archive.org
***1925 Includes Nizam’s Dominions, Mysore, Travancore and Cochin. Contents, Computer page 54
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YlIBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''‪Memoir of an Indian Chaplain, the Reverend Charles Church, M.A‬, of the Madras Establishment of the East India Company''], by  Rev James Hough 1859 Google Books
***1928.Includes Nizam’s Dominions, Mysore, Travancore and Cochin. Contents, computer page 78
*[https://archive.org/details/RecordssportSou00Hami ''Records of sport in Southern India : chiefly on the Annamullay, Nielgherry and Pulney mountains, also including notes on Singapore, Java and Labuan, from journals written between 1844 and 1870''] by the late General Douglas Hamilton, Madras Army 1892 Archive.org. With many illustrations by the author.
*''Notes from a Diary: Kept chiefly in Southern India, 1881-1886'' by the Right Hon. Sir Mountstuart E Grant Duff 1899. [https://archive.org/details/notesfromadiary00duffgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/notesfromadiary13duffgoog Volume II]  Archive.org. The author was Governor of Madras.
*[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofl00drurrich ''Reminiscences of Life and Sport in Southern India''] by Colonel Heber Drury, late Madras Staff Corps and Assistant Resident in Travancore and Cochin  1890 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/roughingitinsout00handrich ''Roughing it in Southern India''] by Mrs M A  Handley  1911 Archive.org. The author was the wife of a [[Forestry|Forest Officer]].
* ''Work And Sport In The Old I. C. S.'' by  W O Horne [William Ogilvie] 1928. The author was appointed to the Madras Civil Service in 1882.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461199 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*''The Engineering Works Of The Godavari Delta: A Descriptive and Historical Account'' by George Turner Walch, Chief Engineer for Irrigation, Madras (Retired). 1896. Compiled for the Madras Government. [https://archive.org/details/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheGodavari Volume I], with [https://archive.org/stream/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheGodavari/The_engineering_works_of_the_Godavari#page/n34/mode/1up Map of the Godarari Delta: Left side] and [https://archive.org/stream/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheGodavari/The_engineering_works_of_the_Godavari#page/n35/mode/1up Map: Right side], [https://archive.org/details/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheGodavari1 Volume II] Archive.org
*''The Engineering Works Of The Kistna Delta: A Descriptive and Historical Account'' by  George Turner Walch, Chief Engineer for Irrigation, Madras (Retired). 1899. Compiled for the Madras Government. [https://archive.org/details/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt Volume I] with [https://archive.org/stream/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt/The_engineering_works_of_the_Kistna_delt#page/n19/mode/2up  Map of the Kistna River Basin], now known as the Krishna River. [https://archive.org/details/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt1 Volume II] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_irg2AAAAMAAJ/page/n3 ''Illustrated guide to the South Indian Railway, including the Mayavaram-Mutupet, and Peralam-Karaikkal railway''] 1900 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/provincialgeogra03holluoft ''The Madras Presidency with MysoreCoorg and the Associated States''] by Edgar Thurston 1913 Archive.org. A volume in the series ''Provincial Geographies of India''.
*[https://archive.org/details/southernindiaits00some/page/n5 ''Southern India, its history, people, commerce, and industrial resources''], comp. by Somerset Playne, assisted by J. W. Bond, ed. by Arnold Wright. Reprint edition, originally published 1914-1915. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281893 ''Routes In Madras District'' 1922]. Title is catalogued ''Maddras''. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Publications about ''Routes'' were generally published by the Quartermaster General's Department.
*[https://archive.org/details/thomasmunrodevel0000beag/page/n7  ''Thomas Munro and the development of administrative policy in Madras, 1792-1818 : the origins of the Munro system''] by T H Beaglehole. 1966. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034530 ''A Handbook of Directions to the Ports in the Presidency of Madras and Ceylon''] by T. E. Marshall, First Assistant Master Attendant, Madras.  1874. British Library Digital Collection.
:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035E32 ''A Handbook to the Ports on the Coast of India between Calcutta and Bombay, including the Island of Ceylon'']  by Herbert Samuel Brown, Lieutenant, R.N.R. Port and Customs Officer, Mangalore. 1897. British Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/notesonpearlchan00thur/page/n4/mode/2up ''Notes on the Pearl and Chank Fisheries and Marine Fauna of the Gulf of Manaar''] by Edgar Thurston. 1890 Archive.org. The Madras Government pearl fishery.
*Monograph Series. Republished in 1982 as ''Art in industry through the ages. Monograph series on Madras Presidency / Southern India'', whose contents of 8 monographs may be seen in this [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1951597 catalogue link] nla.gov.au
**Not included in the reprint: [https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/38196 ''Monograph on Dyes and Dyeing in the Madras Presidency'']  by Edwin Holder  1896.  Pdf download GIPE Digitised Books, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune.
**[https://archive.org/details/SilkIndustry ''Monograph on the Silk Fabric Industry of the Madras Presidency''] by Edgar Thurston 1899 Archive.org. Note page 1 is at the back of the book and some pages may be missing. Also available as a pdf download from [https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25447 GIPE Digitised Books].
**[https://archive.org/details/IvoryIndia ''Monograph on the Ivory Carving Industry of Southern India''] by Edgar Thurston 1901 Archive.org. Also available as a pdf download from [https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25886 GIPE Digitised Books].
**[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35139 ''Monograph on Wood-carving in Southern India''] by Edgar Thurston 1903. Pdf download GIPE Digitised Books.
**[https://archive.org/details/monographoncarpe00harrrich ''Monograph on the Carpet Weaving Industry of Southern India''] by Henry T Harris 1908 Archive.org. Also available as a pdf download from [https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25312 GIPE Digitised Books].
**Not included in the reprint: [https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25449  ''Monograph on Tinsel and Wire in the Madras Presidency''] by  W S Hadaway 1909. Pdf download GIPE Digitised Books.


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An adminsitrative subdivision of British India. The Madras Presidency covered the southern half of India and Ceylon (now called Sri Lanka).

See Presidencies in the Beginners' Guide

Maps

See also

External links

Historical books online

Also see Madras (City)

  • Bengal and Madras papers: recounting the growth of British power in India edited by G W Forrest 1928. Published by Imperial Record Department, Calcutta.
Volume I [1670-1688]; Vol. II [1688-1757]; Vol. III [1757-1785]. Links to pdf downloads Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
Vol. I, Vol. I, 2nd file; Vol.II, Vol.II, 2nd file; Vol.III. All Archive.org.
There may be additional volumes available to read online on Archive.org as Madras District Gazetteers, or try searching by District name.
1862-63 1864, 1864-65 1866, 1865-66 1866, 1867-68 1868, 1868-69 1869 Google Books; 1869-70 1870, 1870-71 1872 Archive.org
Volume 1 In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Volume 2 1805 to 1835 Volume 3 1835 to 1861
  • On the Coromandel Coast by F. E. Penny 1908. Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. Also see Madras (City) for further books by Fanny Emily Penny, the wife of Rev Frank Penny, see item above.
Southern India Painted by Lady Lawler, Described by F E Penny 1914 Archive.org
A Handbook to the Ports on the Coast of India between Calcutta and Bombay, including the Island of Ceylon by Herbert Samuel Brown, Lieutenant, R.N.R. Port and Customs Officer, Mangalore. 1897. British Library Digital Collection.