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Samples of cloth showing many typical Madras patterns. Madras is a lightweight cotton fabric with typically patterned texture and tartan design, used primarily for summer clothing such as pants, shorts, lungi, dresses, and jackets. The fabric takes its name from the former name of the city of Chennai in south India. [1]
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Map of "Madras Presidency" from Pope, G. U. (1880) The Madras Presidency was a province of British India comprising most of the present day Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh along with a few districts and taluks of Karnataka, Kerala and Odisha. A few princely states, notably Ramnad and Pudukkottai also merged into the Presidency at some or the ...
The pattern of slavery also varied between Hindus and Muslims. Muslims usually ran a market as in North India. Triplicane (in modern day Chennai), an area in the Presidency, where Muslim rulers were predominant, had a slave market in the 1790s when women and children were sold. [4]
Chennai, formerly known as Madras, is the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu and is India's fifth largest city. [1] It is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal . With an estimated population of 12.05 million (2024), the 383-year-old city is the 31st largest metropolitan area in the world.
It was 160 pages long and priced at Rs. 10. The second edition of Madras Discovered, 286 pages long was published in 1987 followed by the third edition in 1993, 363 pages long, which was augmented by a supplement titled "Once Upon a City". The fourth edition which came in 1999 was titled Madras Rediscovered. The fifth edition which came in 2004 ...
The excess mortality in the famine has been estimated in a range whose low end is 5.6 million human fatalities, high end 9.6 million fatalities, and a careful modern demographic estimate 8.2 million fatalities. [3] [4] The famine is also known as the Southern India famine of 1876–1878 and the Madras famine of 1877.
According to the 1951 Census of India, the literacy rate in the Madras State was 20.86%. [2] During fiscal year 1950–51, the Madras State Government spent 6.87 crore Rupees (6,870,000) – about 11.5% of total revenues for the state – for Elementary education. The enrollment rate for children of school-going age was around 47.8%. [3]