Madras Presidency (ind)

Madras Presidency

Madras Presidency ranks 5,397th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Rapid City, South Dakota, Kuršėnai, and Savigny-sur-Orge. The most famous people from Madras Presidency are Savitri, C. N. Annadurai, and Ravi Zacharias. Madras Presidency has been the birth place of many actors, and politicians. Madras Presidency is located in India.

The Madras Presidency, officially called the Presidency of Fort St. George until 1937, later the Madras Province, was an administrative subdivision of British India and later its successor, the Dominion of India. At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of South India, including all of present-day Andhra Pradesh, almost all of Tamil Nadu and northern parts of Kerala, parts of Karnataka, Odisha and Telangana in the modern day. The city of Madras was the official and winter capital of the presidency and Udagamandalam was the summer capital. Read more on Wikipedia