Madras Presidency

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The Madras Presidency, officially designated as the Presidency of Fort St. George until 1937 and later known as the Madras Province, was an administrative subdivision of the Company Raj, British Raj and its successor, the Dominion of India. At its greatest extent, the Presidency included most of South India, comprising all of present-day Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, along with parts of Kerala, Karnataka, Odisha, and Telangana, in addition to Sri Lanka, from 1793 to 1815. The city of Madras (present-day Chennai) served as the official and winter capital of the Presidency, while Udhagamandalam (present-day Ooty) served as its summer capital. In 1639, the East India Company purchased the village of Madrasapatnam and one year later it established the Agency of Fort St. George, precursor of the Madras Presidency, although there had been Company factories at Machilipatnam and Armagaon since the very early 1600s. The agency was upgraded to a Presidency in 1652 before once more reverting to its...

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