Madras (Presidency)

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

• 1850 Map of the Diocese of Madras The Colonial Church Atlas 3rd Edition 1850. National Library of Australia Digital Collections-Maps Catalogue entry
• 1931: Madras Presidency northern section Imperial Gazetteer
  
• 1931: Madras Presidency southern section Imperial Gazetteer

See also

• Madras Districts

External links

• Madras Presidency 1611-1755 Google Books
  
• Madras Presidency Wikipedia
• District Gazetteers Lists (some of) the various editions which have been published. Department of Archives and Historical Research, Government of Tamil Nadu
• Churches and Chapels in Madras Presidency spuddybike.org.uk Retrieved. 26 October 2014

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.

• 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 Madras and the Coromandel Coast
• 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.
• 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.
• The Madras Road Book. Edition - 1839, Index, 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 "Chapter I-Hindostan" pages 273-368
• ‪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
• 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. Contents. Also available on Hathi Trust Digital Library where the pages can be rotated, (but the images may be difficult to enlarge).
• 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
  • Manual of the Bellary District by John Kelsall, Madras Civil Service, Acting Sub-Collector, North Arcot 1872. Archive.org
  • 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.
  • A Manual of the Kistna District in the Presidency of Madras by Gordon Thomson Mackenzie 1883 Archive.org
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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 Volume I: The District, Volume II: The Taluks
  • 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 mirror version on Archive.org
  • A Manual of the Tinnevelly District in the Presidency of Madras by Andrew John Stuart 1879 Archive.org
  • 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.
  • A Manual of the District of Vizagapatam, in the Presidency of Madras by D. F. Carmichael 1869 Google Books
• A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Godavery District in the Presidency of Madras by Henry Morris 1878 Archive.org
• 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 Volume I, Volume II 1908 Archive.org
• Madras District Gazetteers mainly Archive.org
  • Anantapur by W Francis 1905. Catalogued Volume 2, but in fact is Volume 1.
  • Anjengo Volume II: Statistical Appendix 1915
  • Madras District Gazetteers: Bellary by W Francis 1904.

  Madras District Gazetteers: Bellary Vol-I by W Francis 1916. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.

  • Madras District Gazetteers: Cuddapah by C F Brackenbury ICS 1915
  • Madras District Gazetteers: Godaveri 1915
  • Madras District Gazetteers: Madura 1906
  • 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.

  Malabar, Volume II: Statistical Appendix 1905

  • Madras District Gazetteers: The Nilgiris 1908
  • Madras District Gazetteers: Salem Volume 1-Part 1 1918, Madras District Gazetteers: Statistical Appendix for Salem District 1932
  • Madras District Gazetteers: Tanjore by F R Hemingway

  1906 edition Archive.org version; 1915 edition Archive.org version. Originally from Digital Library of India.

  • Madras District Gazetteers: Tinnevelly Volume I by H R Pate ICS 1917
  • Madras District Gazetteers: Trichinopoly 1907
  • Madras District Gazetteers: Vizagapatam 1907

There may be additional volumes available to read online on Archive.org as Madras District Gazetteers, or try searching by District name.

• 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
• Handbook of the Madras Presidency by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 2nd edition, (almost entirely rewritten) 1879 Archive.org
• Regulations and Acts in force within the Madras Presidency by Richard Clarke 1848 Google Books
• Madras: Report of the Railway Department 1853 Google Books
• 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...

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

• ‪The Indian Official Thesaurus‬: ‪Being Introductory to Annals of Indian Administration Compiled by Meredith Townsend 1858‬ ‪Google Books. A guide to records.
• 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.
  • Part I 1856, Part VI 1858, Volume 3, Part 2 June 1859, Volume 4, Part 1 March 1860, Volume 14 1868-69. Google Books
  • Many additional volume may be viewed on Archive.org Annals of Indian Administration
• Madras Almanac and Directory.There were various titles over time. See Directories online - Madras
• ‪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
• 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 Volume I, II, First American edition (abridged) 1835 Google Books
• 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

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

• ‪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
• 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. Volume I, Volume II Archive.org. The author was Governor of Madras.
• 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
• Roughing it in Southern India by Mrs M A Handley 1911 Archive.org. The author was the wife of a 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. 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. Volume I, with Map of the Godarari Delta: Left side and Map: Right side, 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. Volume I with Map of the Kistna River Basin, now known as the Krishna River. Volume II Archive.org
• Illustrated guide to the South Indian Railway, including the Mayavaram-Mutupet, and Peralam-Karaikkal railway 1900 Archive.org
• The Madras Presidency with Mysore, Coorg and the Associated States by Edgar Thurston 1913 Archive.org. A volume in the series Provincial Geographies of India.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

• 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 catalogue link nla.gov.au
  • Not included in the reprint: 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.
  • 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 GIPE Digitised Books.
  • Monograph on the Ivory Carving Industry of Southern India by Edgar Thurston 1901 Archive.org. Also available as a pdf download from GIPE Digitised Books.
  • Monograph on Wood-carving in Southern India by Edgar Thurston 1903. Pdf download GIPE Digitised Books.
  • Monograph on the Carpet Weaving Industry of Southern India by Henry T Harris 1908 Archive.org. Also available as a pdf download from GIPE Digitised Books.
  • Not included in the reprint: Monograph on Tinsel and Wire in the Madras Presidency by W S Hadaway 1909. Pdf download GIPE Digitised Books.