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Chief Ministers of the Madras Presidency; No. Portrait Name (Birth–Death) Elected constituency Term of office [10] Council Ministry Appointed by Political party [a] Assumed office Left office Time in office 1 A. Subbarayalu Reddiar (1855–1921) Member of the Legislative Council: 17 December 1920 11 July 1921: 206 days 1st : Reddiar
November 1921) was a landlord and the inaugural First Minister of Madras Presidency from 17 December 1920 to 11 July 1921. [ 2 ] Subbarayalu Reddiar was born in a Reddiar family of South Arcot in 1855.
Madras was elevated to a presidency in 1684 and remained so until 12 February 1785 when new rules and regulations brought by the Pitt's India Act reformed the administration of the East India Company with the exception of a three-year period of French rule from 1746 to 1749 when Madras was a governorship.
The Indian National Congress was elected to power in 1937 [32] for the first time in Madras Presidency and barring the six years when Madras was in a state of Emergency, ruled the Presidency till India got independence on 15 August 1947. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari was the first Chief Minister of Madras Presidency from the Congress party.
Paramasivan Subbarayan (11 September 1889 – 6 October 1962) was an Indian politician, freedom fighter and diplomat and was the First Minister of Madras Presidency, India's ambassador to Indonesia and Union Minister of Transport and Communications in Jawaharlal Nehru's government.
The presidency's first newspaper, the Madras Courier, was started on 12 October 1785, by Richard Johnston, a printer employed by the British East India Company. [238] The first Indian-owned English-language newspaper was The Madras Crescent which was established by freedom-fighter Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty in October 1844. [239]
Tanguturi Prakasam was born into a Telugu speaking family of Subbamma and Gopalakrishnayya [1] in the village of Vinodarayunipalem, 20 km (12 mi) from Ongole in Madras presidency (now Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh). When he was 11, his father died and his mother had to run a boarding house at Ongole, a profession that was looked down upon ...
The first general election was held during November 1920. [8] At the time of the election, Madras presidency had a population of 40 million people. The franchise was limited based on property qualifications. [7] 1,248,156 persons were eligible to vote, among whom 303,558 actually cast their votes.