"The original Black Town was razed in 1758 to allow for an extension of the Fort. This forced residents and businesses…"

"The Imperial Gazetteer of India reported the intensification of the urban character of Madras in the early twentieth …"

"Besides the Fort and the Black Town, the city encompassed ten villages acquired by the East India Company from local …"

"Neoclassical architecture was common in Europe by the late eighteenth century and influenced the design of public bui…"

"In 1840s, an organization titled Chennapattnam Hindu Vidya Pareyalochana Sabha (Hindu Council of Education) establish…"

"Black Town’s central temples, Chenna Kesava and Chenna Malleswarar, typify late medieval styles of temple constructio…"

"The British provincial rulers divested the Nawab of his title and his jurisdictional authority following the Company’…"

"Madras, then, is a story of sheer accident changed the future of a fishing village...The fact that Madras is an artif…"

"Early leadership of the Indian National Congress, and its forerunner, the Hindu Mahajana Sabha, was based in Madras a…"

"The population of the city, as reported in the 1871 Census, was 367,552; in 1881, 405,848; in 1891, 452,518; in 1901,…"