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The Madras Presidency or Madras Province, officially called the Presidency of Fort St. George until 1937, was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India and later the Dominion of India.
The presidencies in British India were provinces of that region under the direct control and supervision of, initially, the East India Company and, after 1857, the British government. The three key presidencies in India were the Madras Presidency, the Bengal Presidency, and the Bombay Presidency.
By the mid-18th century, the three principal trading settlements including factories and forts, were then called the Madras Presidency (or the Presidency of Fort St. George), the Bombay Presidency, and the Bengal Presidency (or the Presidency of Fort William)—each administered by a governor.
Madras Presidency (also known as Madras Province and known officially as Presidency of Fort St. George) was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India.
Direct administration by the British, which began in 1858, effected a political and economic unification of the subcontinent. As a result of the Indian Independence Movement, British rule came to an end on August 14-15, 1947, celebrated annually as Independence Day.
Nov 28, 2008 · Ideology and Ethnicity under British Imperial Rule: ‘Brahmans’, Lawyers and Kin-Caste Rules in Madras Presidency. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2008. Pamela G. Price. Article. Metrics. Get access. Cite. Rights & Permissions. Extract. Consolidated imperial rule tends to alter the relationships among indigenous elites.
Sep 27, 2007 · In the aftermath of the Seven Years War, Madras was the point at which the British stake in India was most vulnerable. Political conditions in peninsular India were volatile and potentially threatening and it was a likely objective for any French intervention.
