Madras Presidency

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Presidency of Fort St George
1684–1935
Province of Madras
1935–1950
1652–1950
Coat of arms of Madras Presidency
Coat of arms
George McCartney
• 1948–1950 (last)
Krishna Bhavsinhji
Premier 
• 1920–1921 (first)
A. Subbarayalu Reddiar
• 1949–1950 (last)
P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja
LegislatureMadras Provincial Legislature
• 
State of Madras
1950
Population
• 1941 estimate
49,341,810
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Madras Agency
Madras State
Today part ofIndia

The Madras Presidency or Madras Province, officially called the Presidency of Fort St. George until 1937, was an

Madras was the winter capital of the presidency and Ooty
was the summer capital.

The Madras Presidency was neighboured by the

Nizam's Dominions of Hyderabad and Berar to the north. Some parts of the presidency were also flanked by Bombay Presidency (Konkan) and Central Provinces and Berar (modern Madhya Pradesh
).

In 1639, the English

District Collector
, and it was further sub-divided into taluks and firqas with villages making up the smallest unit of administration.

Following the

dyarchy, and thereafter its Governor ruled alongside a prime minister. In the early decades of the 20th century, many significant contributors to the Indian independence movement came from Madras. Madras was later admitted as Madras State
, a state of the Indian Union at the inauguration of the Republic of India on 26 January 1950.

Origins

Before the arrival of the English

The discovery of

polygars and European trading companies.[2] Between 1685 and 1947, a number of kings ruled the areas that became part of the Madras Presidency.[3]

The southwestern portions of the presidency, which together constitute Tulu Nadu and Kerala, has a distinct history, language, and culture from its eastern counterparts.

Early English trading posts (1600–1639)

On 31 December 1600,

Francis Day (1605–73) was sent south, and after negotiations with the Raja of Chandragiri, he obtained a land grant in 1639 to set up a factory in the village of Madraspatinam [9] where the new Fort St George was built. An agency was created to govern the new settlement, and the factor Andrew Cogan of Masulipatinam was appointed as its first Agent.[10] All the agencies along India's east coast were subordinated to the East India Company presidency of Bantam in Java.[11] By 1641, Fort St George became the company's headquarters on the Coromandel Coast.[12]

Agency of Fort St George (1640–1684)

Andrew Cogan was succeeded by Francis Day (1643–1644), Thomas Ivie (1644–1648) and Thomas Greenhill (1648–52 and 1655–58). At the end of Greenhill's term in 1652, Fort St George was elevated to a Presidency, independent of Bantam[9] and under the leadership of the first president, Aaron Baker (1652–1655).[9] However, in 1655 the status of the fort was downgraded to an Agency and made subject to the factory at Surat,[13] until 1684. In 1658, control of all the factories in Bengal was given to Madras, when the English occupied the nearby village of Triplicane.[14][15]

Expansion (1684–1801)

In 1684, Fort St George Black Town where the 'natives' lived. The White Town was confined inside the walls of Fort St. George and the Black Town outside of it. The Black Town later came to be known as

Golkonda and the Carnatic region.[17] In September 1774, by Pitt's India Act, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain to unify and regulate the administration of the territories of the East India Company, the President of Madras was made subordinate to the Governor-General of India based in Calcutta.[18] In September 1746, Fort St George was captured by the French, who ruled Madras as a part of French India until 1749, when Madras was handed back to the British under the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chappelle of the previous year.[19]

In 1801, the Nawab of Arcot, Azim-ud-Daula signed the Carnatic Treaty bringing the Carnatic region under British rule. In return, Azim-ud-Daula was entitled to one-fifth of the total revenue of the state and the honour of a 21-gun salute.

During the Company rule (1801–1858)

From 1801 until 1858, Madras was a part of British India and was ruled by the British East India Company. The last quarter of the 18th century was a period of rapid expansion.

princely states into the area militarily subordinate to the Governor of Fort St George.[20] The largest kingdom of the hill-tract region of Visakhapatanam was Jeypore and in 1777 it was conquered by Captain Matthews.[21] The hill tracts of Ganjam and Visakhapatnam were the last places to be annexed by the British.[22]

The period also witnessed a number of rebellions starting with the 1806

The Madras Presidency annexed the

Shivaji II (1832–1855) who left no male heir.[26]

British Raj (1858–1947)

In 1858, under the terms of Queen's Proclamation issued by Queen Victoria, the Madras Presidency, along with the rest of British India, came under the direct rule of the British crown.

Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency. A number of roads, railways, dams and canals were constructed during this period.[35]

Two large famines occurred in Madras during this period, the

Salem riots trial caused discontent among the population.[39]

Indian Independence movement

an elderly woman seated in a chair
Annie Besant in 1922

A strong sense of national awakening emerged in the Madras Presidency in the later half of the 19th century. The first political organisation in the province, the Madras Native Association, was established by Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty on 26 February 1852.[40] However, the organisation did not last long.[41] The Madras Native Association was followed by the Madras Mahajana Sabha which was started on 16 May 1884. Of the 72 delegates who participated in the first session of the Indian National Congress at Bombay in December 1885, 22 hailed from the Madras Presidency.[42][43] Most of the delegates were members of the Madras Mahajana Sabha. The third session of the Indian National Congress was held in Madras in December 1887[44] and was a huge success attended by 362 delegates from the province.[45] Subsequent sessions of the Indian National Congress took place in Madras in 1894, 1898, 1903 1908, 1914 and 1927.[46]

B. P. Wadia.[50]

Dyarchy (1920–37)

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (right), who founded the Self-Respect Movement
and took over the Justice party in 1944

A

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari became Chief Minister of Madras Presidency.[57]

During the 1920s and 1930s, an

Brahmins, Hinduism, and Hindu superstitions in periodicals and newspapers such as Viduthalai and Justice. He also participated in the Vaikom Satyagraha, which campaigned for the right of untouchables in Travancore to enter temples.[58]

Last days of British rule

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
(pictured at a rally) as its Chief Minister

In 1937, the Indian National Congress was elected to power in the Presidency of Madras for the first time.

Anti-Hindi agitations, which led to violence in some places. Over 1,200 men, women, and children were jailed for their participation in such Anti-Hindi agitations[63] while Thalamuthu and Natarasan died during the protests.[62] In 1940, ministers of the Congress party resigned in protest over the Government of India's declaration of war on Germany without their consent. The Governor of Madras, Sir Arthur Hope, took over the administration and the unpopular law was eventually repealed by him on 21 February 1940.[62]

Most of the Congress leadership and erstwhile ministers were arrested in 1942, as a result of their participation in the

Kamaraj
and served for eleven months.

Post Independence

Prakasam was succeeded by O. P. Ramaswamy Reddiyar, who was the chief Minister of the province when India gained independence on 15 August 1947.[67] The Madras Presidency became the Madras State in after the enactment of Constitution of India on 26 January 1950.[68]

Geography

Madras province (North), 1909
Madras province (South), 1909

At its greatest extent, the Madras Presidency included much of

southern India
. Present-day territories that were once part of the presidency are the whole Indian
Bellary, Dakshina Kannada, and Udupi districts of Karnataka and the parts of Jayashankar Bhupalapalli, Bhadradri Kothagudem districts of Telangana
. The presidency had its winter capital at

Demographics

In 1822, the Madras Presidency underwent its first census, which returned a population of 13,476,923. A second census conducted between 1836 and 1837 recorded a population of 13,967,395, an increase of only 490,472 over 15 years. The first quinquennial population enumeration took place from 1851 until 1852. It returned a population of 22,031,697. Subsequent enumerations were made in 1851–52, 1856–57, 1861–62, and 1866–67. The population of Madras Presidency was tallied at 22,857,855, 24,656,509 in 1861–62 and 26,539,052 in 1866–67.[71] The first organised census of India was conducted in 1871 and returned a population of 31,220,973 for the Madras Presidency.[72] Since then, a census has been conducted once every ten years. The last census of British India held in 1941 counted a population of 49,341,810 for the Madras Presidency.[73]

Languages

map of a region
Linguistic map of the Madras Presidency

The Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Odia, Tulu and English languages were all spoken in the Madras Presidency. Tamil was spoken in the southern districts of the presidency from a few miles north of Madras city as far west as the Nilgiri hills and Western Ghats.[74] Telugu was spoken in the districts to the north of Madras city and to the east of Bellary and Anantapur districts.[74] In the district of South Kanara, the western part of Bellary and Anantapur districts and parts of Malabar, Kannada was spoken.[75] Malayalam was spoken in the districts of Malabar and South Kanara and the princely states of Travancore and Cochin, while Tulu was spoken in South Canara.[75] Oriya was spoken in the parts of the districts of then Ganjam and Vizagapatam.[75] English was spoken by Anglo-Indians and Eurasians. It was also the link language for the presidency and the official language of British India in which all government proceedings and court hearings were conducted.[76]

According to the 1871 census, there were 14,715,000 people who spoke Tamil, 11,610,000 people who spoke Telugu, 2,324,000 people who spoke Malayalam, 1,699,000 spoke Canarese or Kannada, 640,000 people spoke Oriya and 29,400 people spoke Tulu.[77] The 1901 census returned 15,182,957 speakers of Tamil, 14,276,509 Telugu-speakers, 2,861,297 speakers of Malayalam, 1,518,579 were speakers of Kannada, 1,809,314 spoke Oriya, 880,145 spoke Hindusthani/Urdu and 1,680,635 spoke other languages.[78] At the time of Indian independence, Tamil and Telugu speakers made up over 78% of the total population of the presidency, with Kannada, Malayalam and Tulu speakers making up the rest.[79]

Religion

Tanjore
, c. 1909
Muhammadan
) boy, c. 1914

In 1901, the population breakdown was:

Hindus (37,026,471), Muslims (2,732,931), and Christians (1,934,480). By the time of India's independence in 1947, Madras had an estimated population of 49,799,822 Hindus, 3,896,452 Muslims and 2,047,478 Christians[80]

Hinduism was the predominant religion in the presidency and practised by around 88% of the population. The main Hindu denominations were

Malabar districts of Madras Presidency with native Christians forming over one–quarter of the total population of the princely state of Travancore.[84]
Hill tribes of the Nilgiris, Palani and Ganjam regions such as the
Chithira Thirunal of Travancore had issued a similar had earlier introduced similar legislation, the Temple Entry Proclamation at the advice of his Diwan, Sir C. P. Ramaswamy Ayyar, in 1937.[86] The provincial government under Ramasamy Reddy passed the Madras Temple Entry Authorization Act on 11 May 1947, which was intended to give Dalits and other prohibited Hindus full and complete rights to enter Hindu temples.[87][88] The Madras Devadasis (Prevention of Dedication) Act which gave Devadasi's the legal right to Marry and also making it illegal to dedicate girls to Hindu temples was passed on 9 October 1947.[89][90]

Administration

The Pitt's India Act of 1784 created an executive council with legislative powers to assist the Governor. The council initially consisted of four members, two of whom were from the Indian civil service or covenanted civil service and the third, an Indian of distinction.[91] The fourth was the Commander-in-chief of the Madras Army.[92] The council was reduced to three members when the Madras Army was abolished in 1895.[92] The legislative powers of this council were withdrawn as per the Government of India Act 1833 and it was reduced to the status of a mere advisory body.[93] However, these powers were restored as per Indian Councils Act 1861.[93] The council was expanded from time to time through the inclusion of official and non-official members and served as the main legislative body till 1935, when a legislative assembly of a more representative nature was created and legislative powers were transferred to the assembly. On India's independence on 15 August 1947, the three-member Governor's executive council was abolished.

The origins of Madras Presidency lay in the village of Madraspatnam which was obtained in 1640.

Trichinopoly district was made a sub-division of Tanjore district in June 1805 and remained so till August 1808 when its status as a separate district was restored. The districts of Rajahmundry (Rajamahendravaram), Masulipatnam and Guntur were created in 1823.[97] These three districts were reorganised in 1859 into two – the Godavari and Krishna districts.[97] Godavari district was further bifurcated into East and West Godavari districts in 1925. The Kurnool kingdom was annexed in 1839 and was constituted as a separate district of the Madras Presidency.[94] For administrative convenience, the district of Kanara was split into North and South Kanara in 1859. North Kanara was transferred to Bombay Presidency in 1862. Between 1859–60 and 1870, the districts of Madras and Chingleput were put together into a single district.[94] A separate Nilgiris district was carved out of Coimbatore district in 1868.[95] As of 1908, Madras Presidency was made up of 24 districts[92] each administered by a District Collector who was from the Indian Civil Service. The districts were sometimes sub-divided into divisions each under a Deputy Collector. The divisions were further sub-divided into taluks and union panchayats or village committees. Agencies were sometimes created in British India out of volatile, rebellion-prone areas of the presidency. The two important agencies in the Madras Presidency were the Vizagapatam Hill Tracts Agency which was subject to the District Collector of Vizagapatam and the Ganjam Hill Tracts Agency
subject to the District Collector of Ganjam. In 1936, the districts of Ganjam and Vizagapatam (including the Vizagapatam and the Ganjam agencies) were partitioned between Madras and the newly created province of Orissa.

There were five princely states subordinate to the Madras government. They were Banganapalle, Cochin, Pudukkottai, Sandur, and Travancore.[98] All these states had a considerable degree of internal autonomy. However, their foreign policy was completely controlled by a Resident who represented the Governor of Fort St George.[99] In case of Banganapalle, the Resident was the District Collector of Kurnool, while the District Collector of Bellary[100] was the Resident of Sandur.[101] The Resident of Pudukkottai from 1800 to 1840 and 1865 to 1873, was the District Collector of Tanjore, from 1840 to 1865, the District Collector of Madura and from 1873 to 1947, the District Collector of Trichinopoly.[102]

Armed forces

painting of a soldier
A British officer in the Madras Light Cavalry

The English East India Company was first permitted to set up its own garrison in 1665 to guard its settlements. Notable amongst the early operations of the company's forces were the defence of the city from Mughal and Maratha invaders and from the incursions of the Nawab of Carnatic. In 1713, the Madras forces under Lieutenant John de Morgan distinguished themselves in the siege of Fort St David and in putting down Richard Raworth's Rebellion.[103]

When Joseph François Dupleix, the Governor of French India, began to raise native battalions in 1748, the British of Madras followed suit and established the Madras Regiment.[104] Though native regiments were subsequently established by the British in other parts of India, the distances that separated the three presidencies resulted in each force developing divergent principles and organisations. The first reorganisation of the army took place in 1795 when the Madras army was reconstituted into the following units:

  • European Infantry – Two battalions of ten companies
  • Artillery – Two European battalions of five companies each, with fifteen companies of lascars
  • Native Cavalry – Four regiments
  • Native Infantry – Eleven regiments of two battalions[105]
painting of a soldier
A Jamadar of the 20th Deccan Horse

In 1824, a second reorganisation took place, whereupon the double battalions were abolished and the existing battalions were renumbered. The Madras Army at the time consisted of one European and one native brigade of horse artillery, three battalions of foot artillery of four companies each, with four companies of lascars attached, three regiments of light cavalry, two corps of pioneers, two battalions of European infantry, 52 battalions of native infantry and three local battalions.[106][107]

Between 1748 and 1895, as with the Bengal and Bombay armies, the Madras Army had its own Commander-in-Chief who was subordinate to the president, and later to the

Indian Mutiny, and the invasion of Upper Burma during the Third Anglo-Burmese War.[111]

The 1857 Mutiny, which quickly led to drastic changes in the Bengal and Bombay armies, had no effect on the Madras Army. In 1895, the presidency armies were finally merged and the Madras regiments came under the direct control of the Commander-in-chief of British India.[112]

in 1890 three madras infantry battalions were accordingly reconstituted, at least for a time, by tapping two south Indian communities which had not yet provided many recruits to the Indian army-the Mappilas and the coorgs, the government of madras was sceptical, and agreed to the formation of two Mappila battalions only on condition they were deployed outside Malabar. Raised in 1900, the new regiments were complete failure, they soon dwindled to 600 men 'quite useless for service'. ref:The Sepoy and the Raj: The Indian Army, 1860-1940 [113]

Land tenure

Sir Thomas Munro who introduced the "Ryotwari System
" in the Madras Presidency

Revenue from land rental as well as an income tax based on the tenant's net profits from their land was the presidency's main source of income.

In ancient times, land appears to have been held in common with an individual unable to sell it without the consent of the other owners, who in most cases were members of the same community.

Tanjore district, all mirasi in the village were vested in a single individual who was called the Ekabhogam.[115] The mirasidars were required to donate a certain amount of money known as mirei to the village administration.[115] They also paid a specified sum to the Government. In return, the mirasidars demanded non-interference by the government in the internal affairs of the villages.[117]

The proprietary system was entirely different in the district of Malabar and the states of

Namboodiri and Nair people, who did not have to pay land-tax and held extensive freeholds of land rented to tenants for agricultural purposes. In return, the Nairs supplied the king with fighting men in times of war while the Namboodhiris managed the upkeep of Hindu temples. These landlords were somewhat self-sufficient and had their own police and judicial systems such that the personal expenses of the Raja were minimal.[118] However, landlords lost their exemption from the taxes on land if they disposed of it[119] meaning that mortgage of land was more common than sale. Individual proprietorship of land was also common in the Telugu-speaking areas of the presidency.[120] The chieftains of the Telugu-speaking districts had more or less maintained an independent existence for a long time,[120] furnishing the sovereign with armies and equipment in times of war. In return, their right to revenues from land remained unmolested.[120] During the time of the British, most of land in the northern districts of the presidency were parcelled out among these petty "Rajahs".[120]

Islamic invasions caused minor changes in the land proprietorship system when taxes on Hindu land owners were raised and private ownership of property came down.[121]

When the British took over administration, the centuries-old system of land proprietorship was left intact.[122] The new rulers appointed middlemen to collect revenue for lands which were not under the control of local zamindars. In most cases, these go-betweens ignored the welfare of the farmers and exploited them to the full.[122] A Board of Revenue was established in 1786 to solve the issue but to no avail.[123] At the same time, the zamindari settlement established in Bengal by Lord Cornwallis proved highly successful and was later implemented in the Madras Presidency from 1799 onwards.[124]

However, the Permanent Settlement was not as successful as it had been in Bengal. When the Company did not reach the expected profit levels, a new system known as the "Village Settlement" was implemented between 1804 and 1814 in the districts of Tinnevely, Trichinopoly, Coimbatore, North Arcot and South Arcot. This involved the leasing of land to the principal cultivators, who in turn leased the land to

Sir Thomas Munro between 1820 and 1827. According to the new system, land was handed over directly to the ryots who paid their rent directly to the government. The land was assessed and paid revenue fixed by the Government This system had a number of advantages as well as disadvantages for the ryots. In 1833, Lord William Bentinck implemented a new system called the "Mahalwari" or village system under which landlords as well as ryots entered into a contract with the Government.[125][126]

By the early 20th century, the greater part of the land was held by ryots who paid rent directly to the Government. Zamindari estates occupied about 26 million acres (110,000 km2), more than one-quarter of the whole presidency. The peshkash, or tribute, payable to the government in perpetuity was about £330,000 a year. Inams, revenue-free or quit-rent grants of lands made for religious endowments or for services rendered to the state, occupied an aggregate area of nearly 8 million acres (32,000 km2).[127] In 1945–46, there were 20,945,456 acres (84,763.25 km2) of Zamindari estates yielding revenues of 9,783,167 and 58,904,798 acres (238,379.26 km2) of ryotwari lands which produced 72,665,330.[128] Madras had forest coverage of 15,782 square miles (40,880 km2).[129]

The Land Estates Act of 1908 was passed by the Madras Government in order to protect cultivators in Zamindaris from exploitation. Under the act, ryots were made permanent occupants of the land.[130] However, far from protecting the ryots, the legislation proved to be detrimental to the interests of the cultivators in the Oriya-speaking northern districts of the presidency[131] who were the intended beneficiaries, as it tied the cultivator to his land and landlord with the chains of eternal serfdom. In 1933, an amendment to the Act was introduced by the Raja of Bobbili to curb the rights of Zamindars and safeguard the cultivators from exploitation. This act was passed in the legislative council despite strong opposition from the Zamindars.

Agriculture and irrigation

a map of a region
A 1936 map of rice stations in Madras Presidency

Almost 71% of the population of Madras Presidency was engaged in agriculture

niger seed and millet were introduced from Asia, Africa or Europe,[135] while grapes were introduced from Australia.[139] The total cultivated area used for food crops was 80% and for cash crops, 15%.[140] Of the gross area, rice occupied 26.4 percent; kambhu, 10 percent; ragi, 5.4 percent and Cholam, 13.8 percent.[140] Cotton occupied 1,740,000 acres (7,000 km2), oilseeds, 2.08 million, spices,0.4 million and indigo, 0.2 million.[140] In 1898, Madras produced 7.47 million tons of food grains from 21,570,000 acres (87,300 km2) of crops grown on 19,300,000 acres (78,000 km2) of ryotwari and inam lands, which supported a population of 28 million.[133] The rice yield was 7 to 10 cwt. per acre, the cholam yields were 3.5 to 6.25 cwt. per acre, khambu, 3.25 to 5 cwt. per acre and ragi, 4.25 to 5 cwt. per acre.[140] The average gross turnout for food crops was 6.93 cwt. per acre.[133]

Periyar river
for power generation

Irrigation along the east coast is carried out mostly by means of dams across rivers, lakes and

irrigation tanks. The main source of water for agriculture in the Coimbatore district were tanks.[139]

The Land Improvement and Agriculturists Loan Act passed in 1884 provided funds for the construction of wells and their utilisation in reclamation projects.[141] In the early part of the 20th century, the Madras government established the Pumping and Boring Department to drill boreholes with electric pumps.[138] The Mettur Dam,[142] the Periyar Project, the Cudappah-Kurnool canal and the Rushikulya Project were the biggest irrigation projects launched by the Madras Government. Constructed below the Hogenakkal Falls on the Madras-Mysore border in 1934, the Mettur Dam supplied water to the western districts of the presidency. The Periyar Dam (now known as the Mullaperiyar Dam) was constructed across the Periyar river in Travancore, near the border.[143] This project diverted the waters of the Periyar river to the Vaigai River basin in order to irrigate the arid lands to the east of the Western Ghats.[143] Similarly, the Rushikulya Project was launched to utilise the waters of the Rushikulya river in Ganjam.[144] Under the scheme over 142,000 acres (570 km2) of land were brought under irrigation.[144] The British also constructed a number of dams and canals for irrigation. An upper dam was constructed across the Kollidam river near Srirangam island.[145] The Dowlaishwaram dam across the Godavari river, the Gunnavaram aqueduct across the Vaineteyam Godavari, the Kurnool-Cuddapah canal[133] and the Krishna dam are examples of major irrigation works carried out by the British.[144][145] In 1946–47, the total area under irrigation was 9,736,974 acres (39,404.14 km2) acres which yielded a return of 6.94% on capital outlay.[146]

Trade, industry and commerce

Tuticorin
Textile showroom of M. V. Cunniah Chetty and Sons, circa 1914
Handlooms
, c. 1913
Parry & Co. sugar refineries at Samalkota, c. 1914
Workshops of the Madras Automobiles Ltd., c. 1904

The trade of the Madras Presidency comprised that of both the presidency with other Provinces and its overseas trade. External trade made up 93 percent of the total with internal trade making up the remainder.[147] Foreign trade accounted for 70 percent of the total while 23 percent was inter-provincial.[147] In 1900–01, imports from other provinces of British India amounted to 13.43 crores while exports to other provinces amounted to 11.52 crores. During the same year, exports to other countries reached 11.74 crores while imports were valued at 66.2 million.[148] At the time of India's independence, imports of the presidency amounted to 71.32 crores a year while exports were valued at 645.1 million.[146] Trade with the United Kingdom made up 31.54% of the total trade of the presidency with Madras the chief port accounting for 49% of the total trade.[146]

Cotton piece-goods, cotton twist and yarn, metals and kerosene oil were the main items of import while animal hides and skins, raw cotton, coffee and piece-goods were the chief exports.

Quilon (Coulão) and Colachel on the western seaboard.[150] The port of Cochin was taken over by the Government of India on 1 August 1936, and that of Madras on 1 April 1937.[146] There were Chambers of Commerce in Madras, Cochin and Cocanada.[151] These chambers each nominated a member to the Madras Legislative Council.[151]

Cotton-ginning and weaving were two of the main industries in the Madras Presidency. Cotton was produced in large quantities in the Bellary district and was pressed in

Coorg and Mysore[157] while tea was grown on the slopes of the Nilgiri Hills.[158] Coffee plantations were also established in Travancore but a severe blight at the end of the 19th century destroyed coffee cultivation in the kingdom and almost wiped out coffee plantations in neighbouring Wynad.[157] Coffee-curing works were located at Calicut, Mangalore and Coimbatore.[158] In 1947, Madras had 3,761 factories with 276,586 operatives.[146]

The presidency's fishing industry thrived, with Shark's fins,

Paravas
and was a lucrative profession.

The total revenue of the presidency was 57 crores in 1946–47 made as follows: Land revenue, 8.53 crores; Excise, 14.68 crores; Income tax, 4.48 crores; Stamp revenue, 4.38 crores; forests, 1.61 crores; other taxes, 8.45 crores; Extraordinary receipts, 2.36 crores and revenue fund, Rs.5.02 crores. Total expenditure for 1946–47 was 569.9 million.[146] 208,675 k.v.a of electricity was generated at the end of 1948 of which 98% was under government ownership.[146] The total amount of power generated was 467 million units.[146]

The

Arbuthnot family, was the largest bank in the presidency until its crash in 1906.[168] Reduced to penury, disillusioned former Indian investors established the Indian Bank with funds donated by Nattukottai Chetties.[169][170]

Between 1913 and 1914, Madras had 247 companies.[171] In 1947, the city led in the establishment of registered factories but employed only 62% of the total productive capital.[171]

The first Western-style banking institution in India was the Madras Bank which was established on 21 June 1683, with a capital of one hundred thousand pounds sterling.

were some of the leading banks headquartered in the presidency.

Transport and communication

Map of the Madras and South Mahratta Railway lines

In the early days of the agency, the only means of transportation were bullock-carts known as jhatkas along with

palanquins.[180] The roads connecting Madras to Calcutta in the north and the kingdom of Travancore in the south served as lines of communication during wars.[180] From the early 20th century onwards, bullock-carts and horses were gradually replaced by bicycles and motor vehicles, while motor buses were the main means of private road transportation.[181] Presidency Transport and the City Motor Service were pioneers, operating buses manufactured by Simpson and Co. as early as 1910.[181] The first organised bus system in Madras city was operated by Madras Tramways Corporation between 1925 and 1928.[181]
The 1939 Motor Vehicles Act imposed restrictions on public-owned bus and motor services. Most of the early bus services were operated by private agencies.

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Pamban island
with the Indian mainland was constructed in 1914
Malabar
, c. 1913

The first organised initiative for the construction of new roads and maintenance of existing roads in the presidency was initiated in 1845 with the appointment of a special officer for the maintenance of main roads.[182] The principal roads under the aegis of the officer were the Madras-Bangalore road, Madras-Trichinopoly road, Madras-Calcutta road, Madras-Cuddapah road and the Sumpajee Ghaut road.[182] A Public Works Department was initiated by Lord Dalhousie in 1852 and subsequently in 1855 an East coast canal was constructed for the purpose of easy navigation.[182] Roadways were handled by the Public Works Secretariat which was under the control of the member of the Governor's Executive Council. The principal highways of the presidency were the Madras-Calcutta road, the Madras-Travancore road and the Madras-Calicut road.[183] By 1946–47, the Madras Presidency had 26,201 miles (42,166 km) of metalled roads and 14,406 miles (23,184 km) of unmetalled roads, and 1,403 miles (2,258 km) of navigable canals.[146]

The first railway line in South India was laid between Madras and Arcot, which was opened for traffic on 1 July 1856.

Ootacamund
in 1899.

The Madras Tramways Corporation was promoted in Madras city in 1892 by Hutchinsons and Co. and began operating in 1895, before even London had its own tramway system.[181] It plied six routes in Madras linking distant parts of Madras city and covered a total of 17 miles (27 km).[181]

The chief navigable waterways in the presidency were the canals in the Godavari and the Kistna deltas.

Buckingham canal was cut in 1806 at a cost of 90 lakhs of silver[189] to connect the city of Madras with the delta of the Kistna river at Peddaganjam. Ships of the British India Steam Navigation Company frequently docked at Madras and provided frequent services to Bombay, Calcutta, Colombo and Rangoon.[189]

In 1917, Simpson and Co. arranged for a test flight by the first aeroplane in Madras

Tata Sons' regular domestic passenger and airmail service from Karachi to Madras. The flight was later re-routed through Hyderabad and became bi-weekly.[192] On 26 November 1935, Tata Sons started an experimental weekly service from Bombay to Trivandrum via Goa and Cannanore. From 28 February 1938, onwards, Tata Sons' Aviation division, now renamed Tata Airlines, began a Karachi to Colombo airmail service via Madras and Trichinopoly.[192] On 2 March 1938, the Bombay-Trivandrum air service was extended to Trichinopoly.[192]

The first organised postal service was established between Madras and Calcutta by Governor

Sir Archibald Campbell
and was introduced on 1 June 1786. The presidency was divided into three postal divisions: Madras North up to Ganjam, Madras South-West to Anjengo (erstwhile Travancore) and Madras West, up to Vellore. In the same year, a link with Bombay was established then in 1837, the Madras, Bombay and Calcutta mail services were integrated to form the All-India Service. On 1 October 1854, the first stamps were issued by the Imperial Postal Service. The General Post Office (GPO), Madras, was established by Sir Archibald Campbell in 1786. In 1872–73, a bimonthly sea-mail service began between Madras and Rangoon. This was followed by the commencement of a fortnightly sea-mail service between Madras and ports on the eastern coast.

Madras was linked to the rest of the world through telegraphs in 1853 and a civilian telegraph service was introduced on 1 February 1855. Soon afterwards, telegraph lines linked Madras and Ootacamund with other cities in India. A Telegraph department was set up in 1854, with a Deputy Superintendent stationed in Madras city. The

Ceylon.[193] Telephones were introduced in the presidency in 1881 and on 19 November 1881, the first telephone exchange with 17 connections was established at Errabalu Street in Madras.[194]
A wireless telegraphy service was established between Madras and Port Blair in 1920 and in 1936, the Indo-Burma radio telephone service was established between Madras and Rangoon.

Education

The first schools offering Western-style education in the presidency were established in Madras

Presidency College with the addition of a college department.[197][198] On 5 September 1857, the University of Madras was established as an examining body using the University of London as a model with the first examinations held in February 1858.[198] C. W. Thamotharam Pillai and Caroll V. Visvanatha Pillai of Ceylon were the first to graduate from the University.[198] Sir S. Subramaniya Iyer was the first Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University.[198]

Similarly, Andhra University was established by the Andhra University Act of 1925[199] and in 1937, the University of Travancore was established in the princely state of Travancore.[200]

The Government Arts College, established in

Government Teacher's College was established at Saidapet in 1856.[206]

Among the private institutions, the Pachaiyappa's College, established in 1842, is the oldest Hindu educational institution in the presidency. The Annamalai University, established by Rajah Sir Annamalai Chettiar in Chidambaram in 1929, was the first university in the presidency to have hostel facilities[207] Christian missionaries were pioneers in promoting education in the region. The Madras Christian College, St. Aloysius College at Mangalore, Loyola College in Madras and the St. Peter's College at Tanjore were some of the educational institutions established by Christian missionaries.

The Madras Presidency had the highest literacy rate of all the provinces in

Brahmins.[33][50]
The preponderance of Brahmins in the universities and in the civic administration was one of the main causes for the growth of the Anti-Brahmin movement in the presidency. Madras was also the first province in British India where caste-based communal reservations were introduced.

In 1923, the Madras University Act was passed after its introduction by Education Minister

Madras University was completely reorganised on democratic lines. The bill asserted that the governing body would henceforth be headed by a Chancellor who would be assisted by a pro-Chancellor, usually the Minister of Education. Apart from the Chancellor and the pro-Chancellor who were elected, there was to be a Vice-Chancellor appointed by the Chancellor.[199]

Culture and society

Hindus, Muslims and Christians generally followed a joint family system.[212][213] The society was largely patriarchal with the eldest male member the leader of the family.[213] Most of the presidency followed a patrilineal system of inheritance.[214] The only exceptions were the district of Malabar and the princely states of Travancore and Cochin which practised the marumakkathayam system.[215]

Women were expected to confine themselves to indoor activities and the maintenance of the household. Muslims and high-caste Hindu women observed purdah.[212] The daughter in the family rarely received an education and usually helped her mother with household chores.[216] Upon marrying, she moved to the house of her in-laws where she was expected to serve her husband and the elder members of his family.[217][218] There have been recorded instances of torture and ill treatment of daughters-in-law.[217][218] A Brahmin widow was expected to shave her head and was subjected to numerous indignities.[219][220]

Rural society comprised villages where people of different communities lived together. Brahmins lived in separate streets called

agraharams. Untouchables lived outside village limits in small hamlets called cheris and were strictly forbidden from having houses in the village.[221] They were also forbidden from entering important Hindu temples or approaching high-caste Hindus.[222][223]

Serfdom was practised in almost all castes from Brahmins to non-Brahmins subjecting agricultural labourers to bondage for non-payment of debt.[224] The Law Commission report on slavery in 1841 contains the indicative figures on the number of slaves, computed based on the population of specific castes of Pallar and Paraiyar.[225] There were proposed regulations in 1811 and 1823 to prevent child labour.[226] In 1833, the British Crown and the House of Commons proposed immediate abolition of slavery in India, but East India Company decreed otherwise.[227] All legal recognition to permit the civil status of slavery were withdrawn with the Act V of 1843 and selling of slaves became a criminal offence in 1862 under the new Indian Penal Code.[228] In spite of these regulations, serfdom continued and the slave population formed 12.2% – 20% of the total population in 1930 across various districts of the presidency.[229]

The

sambandham contracts as legal marriages while the marmakkathayam system was abolished by the Marmakkathayam Law of 1933.[230] Numerous measures were taken to improve the lot of Dalit outcasts. The Thirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams Act (1933), included Dalits in the devasthanams administration. The presidency's Temple Entry Authorization Act (1939)[59] and its Temple Entry Proclamation (1936) of Travancore were aimed at elevating the status of Dalit and other low castes to a position equal to that of high-caste Hindus. In 1872, T. Muthuswamy Iyer established the Widow Remarriage Association in Madras and advocated the remarriage of Brahmin widows.[231] The devadasi system was regulated in 1927 and completely abolished on 26 November 1947.[232] The Widow Remarriage movement was spearheaded in the Godavari district by Kandukuri Veeresalingam.[233] Most of the pioneers of social reform were Indian nationalists.[234][235]

Traditional pastimes and forms of recreation in rural areas were

Madras Presidency Matches, was held between Indians and Europeans during Pongal.[237]

The presidency's first newspaper, the Madras Courier, was started on 12 October 1785, by Richard Johnston, a printer employed by the British East India Company.

The Mail,[194] established as the Madras Times by the Gantz family in 1868.[240]

Regular radio service in the presidency commenced in 1938 when All India Radio established a station in Madras.[241] Cinemas became popular in the 1930s and 1940s with the first film in a South Indian language, R. Nataraja Mudaliar's Tamil film Keechaka Vadham, released in 1916. The first sound films in Tamil and Telugu were made in 1931 while the first Kannada talkie Sati Sulochana was made in 1934 and the first Malayalam talkie Balan in 1938.[242] There were film studios at Coimbatore,[243] Salem,[244] Madras and Karaikudi.[245] Most early films were made in Coimbatore and Salem[243][244] but from the 1940s onwards, Madras began to emerge as the principal centre of film production.[243][245] Until the 1950s, most films in Telugu,[246] Kannada[247] and Malayalam[248] were made in Madras.

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