Presidency College is an art,commerce,and science college in the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu,India. On 16 October 1840,this school was established as the Madras Preparatory School before being repurposed as a high school,and then a graduate college. The Presidency College is one of the oldest government arts colleges in India. It is one of two Presidency Colleges established by the British in India,the other being the Presidency College,Kolkata.
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. At its greatest extent,the presidency included most of southern India,including all of present-day Andhra Pradesh,almost all of Tamil Nadu and parts of Kerala,Karnataka,Odisha and Telangana in the modern day. The city of Madras was the winter capital of the presidency and Ooty was the summer capital.
Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College,commonly known by its former name Madras Law College,is a law school,located in Chennai (Madras),Tamil Nadu,India. It is also referred to as Government Law College or GLC,Chennai. It was established in 1891. It was renamed in 1990,as Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College,by the Government of Tamil Nadu in commemoration of the birth centenary of B. R. Ambedkar. In 1997,the Government of Tamil Nadu passed an Act which brought the college under the wings of the newly established Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University,splitting the college from the University of Madras.
The Justice Party,officially the South Indian Liberal Federation,was a political party in the Madras Presidency of British India. It was established on 20 November 1916 in Victoria Public Hall in Madras by Dr C. Natesa Mudaliar and co-founded by T. M. Nair,P. Theagaraya Chetty and Alamelu Mangai Thayarammal as a result of a series of non-Brahmin conferences and meetings in the presidency. Communal division between Brahmins and non-Brahmins began in the presidency during the late-19th and early-20th century,mainly due to caste prejudices and disproportionate Brahminical representation in government jobs. The Justice Party's foundation marked the culmination of several efforts to establish an organisation to represent the non-Brahmins in Madras and is seen as the start of the Dravidian Movement.
Paramasivan Subbarayan was an Indian politician,freedom fighter and diplomat and was the First Minister of Madras Presidency,India's ambassador to Indonesia and Union Minister of Transport and Communications in Jawaharlal Nehru's government. He was the father of General P. P. Kumaramangalam,who served as India's Chief of Army staff,and of politician Mohan Kumaramangalam. He was also the grandfather of INC and BJP politician and Union Minister Rangarajan Kumaramangalam.
Minjur Bhakthavatsalam was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the chief minister of Madras State from 2 October 1963 to 6 March 1967. He was the last Congress chief minister of Tamil Nadu and the last to have taken part in the Indian independence movement.
The Government of Tamil Nadu is the administrative body responsible for the governance of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Chennai is the capital of the state and houses the state executive,legislature and head of judiciary.
The Indian Councils Act 1861 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that transformed India's executive council to function as a cabinet run on the portfolio system. This cabinet had six "ordinary members",who each took charge of a separate department in Calcutta's government:home,revenue,military,law,finance,and public works. The military Commander-in-Chief sat in with the council as an extraordinary member. The Executive Council was enlarged by addition of fifth member. The Viceroy was allowed,under the provisions of the Act,to overrule the council on affairs if he deemed it necessary,as was the case in 1879,during the tenure of Lord Lytton.
Sir Thiruvarur Muthuswamy Iyer was an Indian lawyer who,in 1877,became the first native Indian during the British Raj to be appointed as justice of the High Court of Madras,acting as Chief Justice in 1893.
Diwan Bahadur Sir Tinnevely Nelliappa Sivagnanam Pillai was an Indian lawyer,civil servant and politician from the Madras Presidency. He belonged to the Justice Party. He served as the Minister of Development in the government of the Raja of Panagal from 1923 to 1926.
Sir George Townsend BoagKCIECSI (1884–1969) was a British Indian civil servant,statistician and administrator who served as the Acting Governor of Odisha from 11 August 1938 to 8 December 1938.
Sonti is a surname found among the Xhosa people in South Africa and India.
Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy or Vazhapadi K. Ramamoorthy was an Indian trade unionist and politician.
The second legislative assembly election for the Madras Presidency after the establishment of a bicameral legislature by the Government of India Act of 1935 was held in 1946. The election was held after 6 years of Governor's rule starting from 1939,when the Indian National Congress government of C. Rajagopalachari resigned protesting Indian involvement in World War II. This was the last election held in the presidency - after Indian independence in 1947,the presidency became the Madras state. The election was held simultaneously with that of the Legislative Council. The Congress swept the polls by winning 163 out of 215 seats. The years after this election saw factionalism in Madras Congress party with divisions across regional and communal lines. Competition among T. Prakasam,C. Rajagopalachari and K. Kamaraj resulted in the election of Prakasam as the prime minister initially. But he was later defeated by Omandur Ramaswamy Reddiar with Kamaraj's support. In turn,Reddiar himself was ousted to make way for P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja with the support of Kamaraj.
C. Rajagopalachari was the Prime Minister of the erstwhile Madras Presidency and the Chief Minister of Madras State of Independent India. He was the first Indian National Congress member to assume office in Madras Presidency. He served as the head of government for two terms spanning about five years. He was elected as a Prime Minister after 1937 elections in Madras Presidency and served till 1939. He was also the Chief Minister of Madras State after first elections held after Indian independence. His second term lasted from 1952 till 1954.
The Indian independence movement had a long history in the Tamil-speaking districts of the then Madras Presidency going back to the 18th century.
A. Padmanabhan is an Indian former civil servant and politician who was a member of the Indian Administrative Service. He is also a former Governor of the state of Mizoram and a former chief secretary of the government of Tamil Nadu. Having had a career in the governments of Tamil Nadu and the government of India,he now focuses on providing help to the needy by partnering with organizations like the Foundation For Academic Excellence and Access (FAEA) where he is a member of the governing council. He was born in 1929 and did his BA and MA from Pachaiyappa's College in Chennai.
Madhavaiah Anantanarayanan was an Indian lawyer and civil servant who served as the Chief Justice of Madras State from 1966 to 1969.
Panchanada Sabanayagam was an Indian Administrative Service officer who served as chief secretary of Tamil Nadu. As a civil servant he served under four chief ministers of Tamil Nadu including C. Rajagopalachari,K. Kamaraj,M. Bhaktavatsalam and M. Karunanidhi,and at the centre under prime minister Indira Gandhi.
