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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA48 ''Travels in South-Eastern Asia...etc''] by Howard Malcolm, 2nd edition (1839) 2 volumes, describes Madras in 1837 in Book 2, Chapter 2 (Google Books).
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA48 ''Travels in South-Eastern Asia...etc''] by Howard Malcolm, 2nd edition (1839) 2 volumes, describes Madras in 1837 in Book 2, Chapter 2 (Google Books).
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=YrMV0naxUTAC&pg=PA171 ''A Gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore''] by Pharoah &Co (1855), detailing Madras (Google Books)
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=YrMV0naxUTAC&pg=PA171 ''A Gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore''] by Pharoah &Co (1855), detailing Madras (Google Books)
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/fortstgeorgemad02penngoog#page/n13/mode/1up ''Fort St. George, Madras; a short history of our first possession in India''] by Fanny Emily Penny 1900 Archive.org
*''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
*''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
:[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'']
:[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'']

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Madras (City)
Presidency: Madras
Coordinates: 13.09°N, 80.27°E
Altitude: 6m
Present Day Details
Place Name: Chennai
State/Province: Tamil Nadu
Country: India
Transport links
Madras Railway (to 1908)
Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway (1908 on)
Madras in 1862, with churches, missions & schools

Madras (now Chennai) was the seat of the Madras Presidency and the location of Fort St George.

History

Madras 1893 Rootsweb

Siege of Madras 1758

Spelling variants

Modern name: Chennai
Variants: Madras

Cemeteries

See Madras Cemeteries, for details of some of the Christian cemeteries in the city.

Orphan schools

See the main article Orphan Schools in Madras, or the following list of schools:

External links

Historical books online

Volume 1 In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Volume 2 1805 to 1835 Volume 3 1835 to 1861