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Chennai historian S. Muthiah delivering a lecture on The Story of Photography in Madras at the Press Institute of India as a part of Madras Day 2015 celebrations. Madras Day is a festival organised to commemorate the founding of the city of Madras in Tamil Nadu, India.
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.
[291] [292] The Spectator, founded in 1836 was the first English newspaper in Chennai to be owned by an Indian and became the city's first daily newspaper in 1853. [293] The first Telugu journal printed from Madras was Satya Doota in 1835, and the first Tamil newspaper, Swadesamitran , was launched in 1899.
806 CE: Date of the oldest surviving inscription in the city, a mixed Tamil-Sanskrit record of the Pallava king Dantivarman found in the Parthasarathi Temple at Triplicane. 820 CE: Bhaktavatsala Perumal Temple is built. 957–970 CE: Dhenupureeswarar Temple is built. [16] [17] 900–1200 CE: Chennai forms a part of the Chola Empire.
1912 – Founded as Province of Bihar and Orissa; 1936 – Divided to form Province of Orissa by Government of India Act 1935; 2011 – Renamed as Odisha by Orissa (Alteration of Name) Act, 2011 [20] Punjab: Punjab Day: 1 November Reorganisation (1966) 1947 – Founded as East Punjab Province from Undivided Punjab Province; 1950 – Renamed as ...
Date Name Type Details March – April: Eid al-Fitr: Floating Muslim festival that celebrates of the day of breaking the fast. It is celebrated on the first day of Shawwal in the Islamic calendar. [6] March – April: Mahavir Janma Kalyanak: Floating
Tamil Nadu (/ ˌ t æ m ɪ l ˈ n ɑː d uː /; Tamil: [ˈtamiɻ ˈnaːɽɯ] ⓘ, abbr. TN) is the southernmost state of India.The tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population, Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, who speak the Tamil language—the state's official language and one of the longest surviving classical languages of the world.
Tamil Nadu Day, also referred to as Tamil Nadu Dhinam, is a holiday celebrated in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu to commemorate the formation of the state. Tamil Nadu was created on 1 November 1956 with the name Madras State. On 18 July 1967, Madras State was officially renamed to Tamil Nadu.