Chennaites can pull their collar up!!
sampath
1. Modern India
started in Chennai, according to historian S Muthiah
. All
the institutions that form the core of the nation – the Indian army, the
civil service, and even the Indian National Congress
-
have their origins here, he argues.
2. British victory at the Battle of Plassey that firmly established
Britain as the leading power in India was secured by Madrasis. Robert
Clive brought
them – 80% of the entire British army that fought in the war – from the
southern city.
3. “The trignometrical surveys, land survey, agriculture and zoological
survey started from Madras,”
4. The company realized that a civil service was needed to govern the
country. So, Charles Trevelyn, a governor of Madras, founded the Indian
Civil Services.
5. In 1688 a municipality was founded in Madras; in 1679, the first
joint stock companies were founded in George Town
and soon after,
the Bank of Madras.
6. Indian National Congress, was born on the banks of the Adyar river,
Muthiah said. A O Hume mooted the idea for the Congress at a meeting at
the Theosophical Society.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Modern-India-took-root-i
n-Chennai-says-historian/articleshow/7623685.cms
