This is a classic study of the history of Fort St. George and the urban area of Madras covering a period of hundred and sixty years from the founding of the settlement in 1640 till the final year of the eighteenth century. Erected, in fact, before Bombay was ceded or Calcutta founded, Madras enjoyed the distinction of being the oldest of the three presidential cities and the first Corporation in the east to be granted (1687) a charter under the East India ...
