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Volume : II, Issue : VII, August - 2012

Historians' Views On The Origin Of Madras

K.MURUGIAH

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

Abstract :

The name of India is originated from the river name Indus. India has large number of cities like Chennai, Kolkatta, Mumbai and Delhi. Madras is the pioneering settlements of British in India. It was the first city established by the East India Company and capital of southern part of India. So that Madras may rightly to be called the Athens of India in Modern time and Tamil nadu is called as 'The Greece of South East Asia'. It is the fourth largest metropolitan city in India today.

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K.MURUGIAH, (2012). Historians' Views On The Origin Of Madras. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. VII, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1183.pdf

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  2. N.S.Ramaswami, The Founding of Madras, Madras, 1977, p. 46.
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  5. H.D.Love, Vestiges of Old Madras 1600 -1800, Vol. I, New Delhi, 1996, p.278
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  10. S. Muthaiah, Madrs Rediscovered, Madras, 2008, p.4.
  11. C.S.Srinvasachari, History of the City of Madras, Madras, 1939, p.44.
  12. N.S.Ramaswami, op.cit., pp. 40- 41.
  13. Ibid., pp. 49- 50.

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