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Also see [[Madras (City)]]
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.
*''Bengal and Madras papers: recounting the growth of British power in India'' edited by G W Forrest 1928. Published by Imperial Record Department, Calcutta.
:[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35331 Volume I [1670-1688<nowiki>]</nowiki>]; [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/21510 Vol. II [1688-1757<nowiki>]</nowiki>]; [http://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.
:[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35331 Volume I [1670-1688<nowiki>]</nowiki>]; [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/21510 Vol. II [1688-1757<nowiki>]</nowiki>]; [http://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]
*[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.
*[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.

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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.