![]() The tombstones in its graveyard are the oldest English or British tombstones in India. It was built between 16 on the orders of the then Agent of Madras Streynsham Master. Mary's Church is the oldest Anglican church in India. In the Fort, Madras (MacLeod, p. 124, 1871) The fort is maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India, with the administrative support of Indian Army. The Fort Museum contains many relics of the Raj era, including portraits of many of the Governors of Madras. The Fort now serves as one of the administrative headquarters for the legislative assembly of Tamil Nadu state and it still houses a garrison of troops in transit to various locations at South India and the Andamans. It briefly passed into the possession of the French from 1746 to 1749, but was restored to Great Britain under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which ended the War of the Austrian Succession. The Fort is a stronghold with 6-metre-high (20 ft) walls that withstood a number of assaults in the 18th century. Without all dispute a beneficial place to the Honourable English India Company, and with all the Residence of theire Honourable Agent and Governour all of their Affaires Upon this Coast and the Coast of Gingalee, the Kingdoms also of Orixa, ( Orissa) Bengala ( Bengal), and Pattana ( Patna), the said Governour and his Councell here resideigne, for the Honour of our English Nation keepinge and maintainneinge the place in great Splendour, Civil and good Government, Entertaineinge nobly all Foraign Embassadors, and provideinge great quantities of Muzlinge ( Muslin) Callicoes ( Calico) &c. Īccording to the 17th-century merchant and traveller Thomas Bowrey, Fort St. In 1665, after the EIC received word of the formation of the new French East India Company, the fort was strengthened and enlarged while its garrison was increased. It also helped to establish English influence over the Carnatic and to keep the kings of Arcot and Srirangapatna, as well as the French forces based at Pondichéry, at bay. It gave birth to a new settlement area called George Town (historically referred to as Black Town), which grew to envelop the villages and led to the formation of the city of Madras. George, faced the sea and some fishing villages, and it soon became the hub of merchant activity. George's Day, celebrated in honour of the patron saint of England. The fort was completed on 23 April 1644 at a cost of £3,000, coinciding with St. However, to secure its trade lines and commercial interests in the spice trade, it felt the necessity of a port closer to the Malaccan Straits, and succeeded in purchasing a piece of coastal land, originally called Chennirayarpattinam or Channapatnam, where the Company began the construction of a harbour and a fort. The East India Company (EIC), which had entered India around 1600 for trading activities, had begun licensed trading at Surat, which was its initial bastion. The fort currently houses the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly and other official buildings. Thus, it is a feasible contention to say that the city (formerly named Madras) evolved around the fortress. The construction of the fort provided the impetus for further settlements and trading activity, in what was originally an uninhabited land. Founded in 1639, it was the first English (later British) fortress in India. George (or historically, White Town) is a fortress at the coastal city of Chennai, India. George showing the spire of St Mary's Church, where Robert Clive married Margaret Maskelyne.
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