CONTENTS

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[Preface][v]
Chap.
I. [Before the Beginning][1]
II. [The Beginning][5]
III. [Fort St. George][9]
IV. [Development][18]
V. ['The Wall'][25]
VI. [Expansion][35]
VII. [Outposts][41]
VIII. [The Church in the Fort][47]
IX. [Roman Catholic Madras][56]
X. [Chepauk Palace][63]
XI. [Government House][69]
XII. [Madras and the Sea][78]
XIII. [The Story of the Schools][87]
XIV. [Here and There][101]
XV. ['No Mean City'][111]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Chepauk Palace][Frontispiece]
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[Map of Madras, about 1710][10]
[Corresponding Map, 1921][11]
[Clive's House][16]
[A bit of the Black Town Wall][26]
[Central Gate of the Black Town Wall][28]
[A Magazine in the Black Town Wall][30]
['The Old and the New'][32]
[Map of Madras][36]
[San Thomé Fort][42]
[Egmore fort (side view)][44]
[Remains of the Egmore Fort][46]
[St. Mary's, Fort St. George][49]
[Government House, Madras][74]
[The Sea Gate][80]
[The Company's Flag][81]
[Surf-Boat][83]
[University Senate House][96]
[Pachaiyappa's College][97]
[Doveton Protestant College][98]
[St. George's Cathedral][102]
[St. Andrew's (The 'Kirk')][104]
[St. Thomé Cathedral][106]

CHRONOLOGICAL NOTES

The East India Company establisheda.d. 1600
First English settlement, at Masulipatam1611
Site of Madras acquired by Mr. Francis Day1639
The acquisition confirmed at Chandragiri by the Hindu 'Lord of the Carnatic'1639
The Hindu lord of the Carnatic (the Raja of Chandragiri) dethroned by the Mohammedan Sultan of Golconda1646
The Company secure from Golconda a fresh title to their possessions
The Sultan of Golconda dethroned by the Moghul Emperor, Aurangzeb, who appoints a 'Nawab of the Carnatic'1687
The Company secure from a representative of the Emperor a fresh title to their possessions
Da-ud Khan, Nawab of the Carnatic, invests Madras for three months, and is finally bought off1702
In Europe, England and France are engaged in the War of the Austrian Succession1740-1748
Dupleix, who is possessed with the idea of making France politically influential in India, is appointed Governor of Pondicherry1742
In the war in Europe he sees an opportunity for fighting the English in India, and French forces under LaBourdonnais capture Madras1746
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, by which Madras is restored to the English1748
Two Carnatic princes quarrel for the Nawabship1749
The French and the English in South India join in the quarrel on opposite sides. In the name of the claimant whom the English supported, Clive captures Arcot, the capital of the Carnatic, and then defends the town against the rival claimant and his French supporters1749
The French are defeated in the open field, and the struggle is at an end1752
In Europe, England and France are engaged in the Seven Years' War1756-1763
In India, Count Lally besieges Madras unsuccessfully for more than two monthsa.d. 1758-1759
The English defeat the French at Wandiwash1760
The English capture Pondicherry1761
Treaty of Paris, by which Pondicherry is restored to the French1763
(The town was captured again in 1786 and in 1803).
Haidar Ali makes himself Sultan of Mysore about 1760, and reigns till his death, which occurred in1781
Tipu, his son, succeeds him, and reigns till he is slain in defending his capital, Seringapatam, against an assault by the English1799
(Madras was frequently disturbed by the raids of the father and of the son; and Tipu's death relieved the townsmen of constant anxiety.)
The Supreme Court of Judicature established at Madras1801
In default of an heir, the Carnatic 'lapses' to the Company 1855
The Madras Railway opened for traffic1856
The Indian Mutiny1857-1859
The Madras University instituted1857
The High Court established1861