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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]
The Madrasian culture is a prehistoric archaeological culture of the Indian subcontinent, dated to the Lower Paleolithic, the earliest subdivision of the Stone Age. [1] [2] It belongs to the Acheulian industry, and some scholars consider the distinction between the Madrasian and the broader, regional Acheulian tradition defunct.
Madras, Mysore, and the south of India, or,A personal narrative of a mission to those countries : from MDCCCXX to MDCCCXXVIII Publisher London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans
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.
Cholamandal Artists' Village is an artists' commune in Chennai, India. Established in 1966, it is the largest artists' commune in India. The community is located in the southern coastal neighborhood of Injambakkam. Its artists are credited for the Madras Movement of Art (1950s–1980s), which brought modernism to art in South India. Their work ...
[9] [10] [11] A number of roads, railways, dams and canals were constructed during this time. [10] During this period, Madras was devastated by two great famines: Great Famine of 1876–78 and the Indian famine of 1896–97. [12] The population of the Presidency fell from 31.2 million in 1871 to 30.8 million in 1881 as a result of the 1876–78 ...
This dating, confirmed by both paleomagnetic and 26 Al/ 10 Be burial dating, means that India's oldest Acheulean tools were contemporary to those in Africa and Central Asia and thus challenges the traditional view of Acheulean colonization, suggesting either an earlier spread or independent development of these lithic technologies across ...
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]