Egmore

Coordinates: 13°04′24″N 80°15′39″E / 13.0732°N 80.2609°E / 13.0732; 80.2609
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Egmore
Vidhan Sabha
constituency
Ezhumboor

Egmore is a neighbourhood of

Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department. The Wesley Church, Egmore
is the oldest church of the region.

History

The earliest references to Egmore occur in the inscriptions of the Chola king

Thiruvottriyur by a resident of Serruppedu (identified with the present day Chetpet
) in Elumur-Tudarmuni Nadu.

Egmore is the Anglicised form of "Ezhumbur", the name of a pre-British era village situated on the northern banks of the River.[2] Despite the fact that Egmore had been a part of the East India Company's possessions since 1720, it was not until the "Golden age of British rule" stretching from 1858 to 1947 that Egmore witnessed some real growth. The Egmore Museum was one of the first notable monuments to be constructed here. The construction of this famous landmark was undertaken immediately after the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. The Connemara Library was created as an annex housing the Museum's vast book collection and became operational in 1896.

Egmore, in 1796, was the site of the Military Male Orphan Asylum near Madras. This asylum was headed by

Madras System
for schooling there.

Various buildings

Egmore Railway station
Museum Theatre in Government museum, Egmore, Chennai
St Andrew's Church
Connemara Public Library
Churches
  • Presbyterian Church
    commonly referred to as the 'Kirk')
  • Good Shepherd's Convent
  • Methodist church on the Poonamallee High Road. The church was established and consecrated in 1905 on the site of a garden house purchased by the Mission in 1892.[3]
Education

Politics

Egmore vote
by alliance in assembly elections
Year All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)
2006
40.3% 31,975 48.5% 38,455
2001
47.6% 33,103 47.7% 33,189
1996
19.7% 13,876 72.6% 51,061
1991
47.8% 21,936 50.5% 23,139
1989*
21.1% 16,124 49.8% 38,032
1984
47.4% 27,246 51.8% 29,795
1980
37.6% 23,444 61.2% 38,200
1977
28.0% 19,414 38.6% 26,746

State assembly politics

Egmore has been a stronghold for

1957 election
.

  • Note: In 1989, ADMK was split between
    Jayalalithaa faction
    , and only the Jayalalithaa faction is reported in the ADMK column since they were the highest vote getter from the divided faction. The Janaki faction got 4,293, which is about 5.6% of the voters.

Lok Sabha politics

Egmore assembly constituency is part of

Chennai Central (Lok Sabha constituency).[4]

Transport

Madras Egmore railway station in 1926

Egmore Railway Station is the second most important in the state of Tamil Nadu after the Chennai Central Railway Station. It was constructed in 1908 and functioned as the headquarters of the now defunct Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway till 1951.

Egmore is well connected to other parts of the city. Many of the state-run Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) buses run through Egmore. Egmore has its own suburban train station on the Chennai Beach - Tambaram railway line, which connects it to other parts of the city.

Geolocation

References

  1. ^ a b Venkayya, V. (June 1905). E. Hultzsch (ed.). The Triplicane Inscription of Dantivarman. Vol. 8. Government of India. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ ChennaiCorporation.com: The Leading Chennai Corporation Site on the Net
  3. ^ History of Wesley church
  4. ^ "List of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Tamil Nadu. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 2008-10-08.

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