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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=pGBCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Madras in the olden time: being a history of the presidency from the first foundation of Fort St. George  Volume 2 1702-1727''] J Talboys Wheeler 1861 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=pGBCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Madras in the olden time: being a history of the presidency from the first foundation of Fort St. George  Volume 2 1702-1727''] J Talboys Wheeler 1861 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=85UBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP11 ''Madras in the olden time: being a history of the presidency from the first foundation of Fort St. George to the French Occupation of Madras  Volume 3 1727-1748''] by J Talboys Wheeler 1862 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=85UBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP11 ''Madras in the olden time: being a history of the presidency from the first foundation of Fort St. George to the French Occupation of Madras  Volume 3 1727-1748''] by J Talboys Wheeler 1862 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/reportonpalkmanu00greauoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''Report on the Palk Documents'']  1922  Archive.org.  Letters addressed to Sir Robert Palk from the time he relinquished the governorship of Madras in 1767 to the end of 1786. The majority were sent from Fort St. George, and they are “full of political and military intelligence”
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=PyUAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA123 ''Journal of a Residence in India''] by Maria Graham, 2nd Edition (1813) describes Madras in 1810 from page 123 and [http://books.google.com/books?id=PyUAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA154 page 154] (Google Books).
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=PyUAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA123 ''Journal of a Residence in India''] by Maria Graham, 2nd Edition (1813) describes Madras in 1810 from page 123 and [http://books.google.com/books?id=PyUAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA154 page 154] (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=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).

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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