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history of India
...post at the fishing village of Madraspatnam (now Chennai) with the permission of the local ruler. The history of Tamil Nadu from the mid-17th century to 1946 is the story of the British-controlled
Madras Presidency in relationship to the rise and fall of British power in India. After Indian independence in 1947, the
Madras Presidency became Madras state. The state’s Telugu-speaking areas were...
