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**It includes a number of articles titled "Literature on Madras", containing bibliographic references to help you find historical information about Madras, refer [[Madras bibliography]]
**It includes a number of articles titled "Literature on Madras", containing bibliographic references to help you find historical information about Madras, refer [[Madras bibliography]]
**[http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2019%20No%204/otherstories.html  'The best east of Suez,' they described MH [The Madras Maternity Hospital<nowiki>]</nowiki>]  June 1-15, 2009, [http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2019%20No%205/where-they-see-hear-and-dream-ob-and-gyn.html Where they see, hear and dream Ob & Gyn], June 16-30, 2009
**[http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2019%20No%204/otherstories.html  'The best east of Suez,' they described MH [The Madras Maternity Hospital<nowiki>]</nowiki>]  June 1-15, 2009, [http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2019%20No%205/where-they-see-hear-and-dream-ob-and-gyn.html Where they see, hear and dream Ob & Gyn], June 16-30, 2009
*[http://ietd.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/1795 ''Factories and Ports in India: a study of the English settlement pattern on the Coromandel Coast 1630-1724''] by C Srinivasa Reddy University of Hyderabad 1997 thesis from [http://ietd.inflibnet.ac.in/ Indian ETD Repository]  
*[http://ietd.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/1795 ''Factories and Ports in India: a study of the English settlement pattern on the Coromandel Coast 1630-1724''] by C Srinivasa Reddy University of Hyderabad 1997 thesis from [http://ietd.inflibnet.ac.in/ Indian ETD Repository]
*[http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article3804481.ece Discovered: Pictures of Madras after Emden struck <nowiki>[</nowiki>September 22, 1914<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by  A. Srivathsan The Hindu 22 August 2012 . Includes photographic slideshow [http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article3804379.ece?ref=slideshow When Emden Bombed Madras]
*[http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article2771785.ece Memories of Madras - The Summer of 1942] The Hindu 3 January 2012
*[http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article2771785.ece Memories of Madras - The Summer of 1942] The Hindu 3 January 2012
*Two articles about Popham’s Broadway, the main North-South thoroughfare in Black Town/Georgetown: [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/popham-the-improver-1163210.html Popham the Improver] Saturday 6 June 1998  The Independent; [http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article795251.ece Madras miscellany: The drain that became Broadway] 26 September 2010 The Hindu
*Two articles about Popham’s Broadway, the main North-South thoroughfare in Black Town/Georgetown: [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/popham-the-improver-1163210.html Popham the Improver] Saturday 6 June 1998  The Independent; [http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article795251.ece Madras miscellany: The drain that became Broadway] 26 September 2010 The Hindu

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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)
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places of interest during the British period
Madras (City)



Madras (now Chennai) was one of the early East India Company Factories, the location of Fort St George and the seat of the Madras Presidency.

Madras in 1862, with churches, missions & schools
Madras 1893 Rootsweb

History

Spelling variants

Modern name: Chennai
Variants: Madras

FIBIS resources

Plan of Madras and its environs engraved by J & C Walker, London in 1854. This item is for FIBIS members only and you will need to log-in to view it.

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:

Economy and business

  • This article mentions Thomas Parry, 1768-1824, a merchant in Madras, after whom Parry’s Corner is named. 19 January 2012 walesonline.co.uk
  • Through the ages: businesses in Madras 6 April 2012 thehindubusinessline.com
  • Wiele & Klein, Madras and Ootacamund
    • Wiele & Klein Studio Advertisement A Trade advertisement for the Madras and Ootacamund studio of Wiele & Klein, "Artists, Photographers and Photo Engravers" britishphotohistory.ning.com
    • "The German Photographers of Madras" by Gabrielle Landwehr Part 1 , Part 2 (scroll down) Madras Musings Volume XVIII No. 14, November 1-15, 2008 and No. 15, November 16-30, 2008
    • Madras on glass 9 July 2003 The Hindu


External links

Historical books online

Also see Madras (Presidency)

Volume 1 In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Volume 2 1805 to 1835 Volume 3 1835 to 1861
These articles have been reprinted as the book Marriages at Fort St. George, Madras , available at the British Library as Official Publications: Church Registers IOR/V/27/73 and Shelfmark OIR 929.354 Open Access
  • Madras and its cantonments page 43, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 68 1847. Google Books. The cantonments were classified as "Stations on the sea coast"