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The High Court building in Chennai (formerly Madras), Tamil Nadu, India. The central tower was built to serve as a lighthouse, and was in use as such until 1977.

Former name, to 1996, of Chennai, an industrial port and capital of the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

Madras

Former name of Tamil Nadu, a state of India.



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The British Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the larger portion of this vast country, and has a governor-general stationed at Calcutta, governors at Madras, Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-governor at Agra.
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Some, such as those of Paris, Petersburg, Berlin, Stockholm, Hamburg, Malta, Lisbon, Benares, Madras, and others, transmitted their good wishes; the rest maintained a prudent silence, quietly awaiting the result.
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