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The following people were born or based their life in Tamil Nadu, formerly known as Madras State This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Madras State was a state of India which was in existence during the mid-20th century. The state came into existence on 26 January 1950 when the Constitution of India was adopted and included the present-day Tamil Nadu, Kerala and parts of neighbouring states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
People from the city of Chennai (formerly Madras), India, the state capital of Tamil Nadu. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Chennai (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ n aɪ / ⓘ; Tamil: [ˈt͡ɕenːaɪ̯], ISO: Ceṉṉai), formerly known as Madras, [d] is the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India. It is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal .
Pages in category "People from the Madras Presidency" The following 125 pages are in this category, out of 125 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty was born in 1806 in Periamet, Madras in a Telugu-speaking Balija family. [2] [3] His father, Sidhulu Chetty (సిద్ధులు శెట్టి), owned a large indigo, dye, and cloth business, and was the first Indian member of the Madras Chamber of Commerce. [1]
After independence of India in 1947, Madras Presidency became Madras State. Madras State had multilingual speakers which included Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu speakers. In 1952, Potti Sreeramulu demanded a separate state for Telugu speaking people with Madras as its capital. He went on hunger strike with his demand, and later died ...
Dewan Bahadur Sir Pitti Theagaraya Chetty KCSI (27 April 1852 – 28 April 1925) was an Indian lawyer, industrialist, and prominent political leader from the erstwhile Madras province. He was one of the founders of the Justice Party in 1916, along with C. Natesa Mudaliar, Dr. T. M. Nair. Theagaraya Nagar is