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Madras State

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Madras State was a state in the Republic of India. [1]

58 relations: Andhra State, Arranged marriage, Ballari district, Bhupesh Gupta, Brahmin, C. N. Annadurai, C. Rajagopalachari, Chennai, Coastal Andhra, Dowry, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Eknath Ranade, Electoral fusion, Government of India, Hindi, History of Tamil Nadu, India, Indian National Congress, Jatindra Nath Das, Jawaharlal Nehru, Kanyakumari, Kerala, List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu, M. Bhaktavatsalam, M. S. Golwalkar, Madras Legislative Assembly election, 1962, Madras Legislative Assembly election, 1967, Madras Presidency, Madurai, Maharashtra, Malabar District, Malabar region, Midday Meal Scheme, Modified Scheme of Elementary education 1953, Mysore State, Mysorean invasion of Kerala, Opposition (parliamentary), Parliament of India, Partition of India, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Potti Sreeramulu, Rajya Sabha, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Rayalaseema, Self-Respect Movement, South Canara, South India, Sri Prakasa, States and union territories of India, States Reorganisation Act, 1956, ..., Swami Vivekananda, Swatantra Party, Tamil Nadu, Telugu people, Three-language formula, Travancore-Cochin, Udupi district, West Bengal. Expand index (8 more) »

Andhra State

Andhra State (IAST) was a state in India created 1953, from the Telugu-speaking northern districts of Madras State.

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Arranged marriage

Arranged marriage is a type of marital union where the bride and groom are selected by individuals other than the couple themselves, particularly family members, such as the parents.

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Ballari district

Ballari (pronounced) is a district in Karnataka state, India.

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Bhupesh Gupta

Bhupesh Gupta (ভূপেশ গুপ্ত) (October, 1914–6 August 1981) was an Indian politician and a leader of the Communist Party of India.

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Brahmin

Brahmin (Sanskrit: ब्राह्मण) is a varna (class) in Hinduism specialising as priests, teachers (acharya) and protectors of sacred learning across generations.

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C. N. Annadurai

Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai (15 September 1909 – 3 February 1969), popularly called Anna ("Elder brother") or Arignar Anna ("Anna, the scholar"), was an Indian politician who served as 1st Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from 1967 and 5th, last Chief Minister of Madras until 1969 in the state of Tamil Nadu in South India.

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C. Rajagopalachari

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (10 December 1878 – 25 December 1972) informally called Rajaji or C.R., was an Indian politician, independence activist, lawyer, writer and statesman.

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Chennai

Chennai (formerly known as Madras or) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Coastal Andhra

Coastal Andhra (Telugu: తీర ఆంధ్ర), is a region in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.

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Dowry

A dowry is a transfer of parental property, gifts or money at the marriage of a daughter.

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Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), (Dravidian Progress Federation) is a state political party in the states of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh in India.

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Eknath Ranade

Eknath Ramkrishna Ranade (19 November 1914 – 22 August 1982), popularly referred to as Eknathji, was a social activist and leader, motivated by the twin spirits of nationalism and spiritualism, and known for his great organisational abilities.

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Electoral fusion

Electoral fusion is an arrangement where two or more political parties on a ballot list the same candidate, pooling the votes for that candidate.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of 29 states and seven union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic.

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Hindi

Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी, IAST: Hindī), or Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी, IAST: Mānak Hindī) is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language.

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History of Tamil Nadu

The region of Tamil Nadu or Tamilakam, in the southeast of modern India, shows evidence of having had continuous human habitation from 15,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress (INC, often called Congress Party) is a broadly based political party in India.

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Jatindra Nath Das

Jatindra Nath Das (যতীন দাস) (27 October 1904 – 13 September 1929), also known as Jatin Das, was an Indian independence activist and revolutionary. He died in Lahore jail after a 63-day hunger strike.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence.

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Kanyakumari

Kanyakumari is a City in Kanyakumari district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

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Kerala

Kerala is a state in South India on the Malabar Coast.

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List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu

The complete list of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu consists of the heads of government in the history of the state of Tamil Nadu in India since 1920.

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M. Bhaktavatsalam

Minjur Bhaktavatsalam or Minjur Kanakasabhapathi Bhaktavatsalam (9 October 1897 – 13 February 1987) was an Indian lawyer, politician and freedom fighter from the state of Tamil Nadu.

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M. S. Golwalkar

Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar (Marathi: मा. स. गोळवलकर; 19 February 1906 – 5 June 1973) was the second Sarsanghchalak (or, "Supreme Leader") of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

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Madras Legislative Assembly election, 1962

The third legislative assembly election to the Madras state (presently Tamil Nadu) was held on 21 February 1962.

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Madras Legislative Assembly election, 1967

The fourth legislative assembly election of Madras State (later renamed as Tamil Nadu) was held in February 1967.

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Madras Presidency

The Madras Presidency, or the Presidency of Fort St.

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Madurai

Madurai is one of the major cities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Maharashtra

Maharashtra (abbr. MH) is a state in the western region of India and is India's second-most populous state and third-largest state by area.

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Malabar District

Malabar District was an administrative district of Madras Presidency in British India and independent India's Madras State.

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Malabar region

Malabar region refers to the historic and geographic area of southwest India covering the state of Kerala's present day Kasaragod, Kannur, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Malappuram and Palakkad Districts.

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Midday Meal Scheme

The Midday Meal Scheme is a school meal programme of the Government of India designed to improve the nutritional status of school-age children nationwide.

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Modified Scheme of Elementary education 1953

The Modified Scheme of Elementary Education or New Scheme of Elementary Education or Madras Scheme of Elementary Education dubbed by its critics as Kula Kalvi Thittam (Hereditary Education Policy), was an abortive attempt at education reform introduced by the Indian National Congress Government of the Madras State, led by C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji) in 1953.

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Mysore State

Mysore State was a separate state within the Union of India from 1948 until 1956 with Mysore as its capital.

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Mysorean invasion of Kerala

The Mysorean invasion of Kerala (1766 –1792) was the military invasion of Malabar (northern Kerala), including the territories of the Zamorin of Calicut, by the Muslim de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore Hyder Ali.

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Opposition (parliamentary)

Parliamentary opposition is a form of political opposition to a designated government, particularly in a Westminster-based parliamentary system.

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Parliament of India

The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India.

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Partition of India

The Partition of India was the division of British India in 1947 which accompanied the creation of two independent dominions, India and Pakistan.

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Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy (17 September 1879 – 24 December 1973), was commonly known as Periyar also referred to as Thanthai Periyar, was an Indian social activist, and politician who started the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam.

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Potti Sreeramulu

Potti Sreeramulu (Telugu: పొట్టి శ్రీరాములు, IAST: Poṭṭi Śreerāmulu; 16 March 1901 – 15 December 1952), was an Indian revolutionary.

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Rajya Sabha

The Rajya Sabha or Council of States is the upper house of the Parliament of India.

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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, abbreviated as RSS (Rāṣṭrīya Svayamsēvaka Saṅgha, IPA:, lit. "National Volunteer Organisation" or "National Patriotic Organisation"), is an Indian right-wing, Hindu nationalist, paramilitary volunteer organisation that is widely regarded as the parent organisation of the ruling party of India, the Bharatiya Janata Party.

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Rayalaseema

Rayalaseema is a geographic region in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It comprises four southern districts of the state namely, Anantapur, Chittoor, Kadapa and Kurnool. census of India, the region with four districts had a population of 15,184,908 and covers an area of.

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Self-Respect Movement

The Self-Respect Movement is a movement with the aim of achieving a society where backward castes have equal human rights, and encouraging backward castes to have self-respect in the context of a caste-based society that considered them to be a lower end of the hierarchy.

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South Canara

South Canara was a district of the Madras Presidency of British India, located at.

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South India

South India is the area encompassing the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Puducherry, occupying 19% of India's area.

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Sri Prakasa

Sri Prakasa (3 August 1890 – 23 June 1971) was an Indian politician, freedom-fighter and administrator.

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States and union territories of India

India is a federal union comprising 29 states and 7 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.

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States Reorganisation Act, 1956

The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 was a major reform of the boundaries of India's states and territories, organising them along linguistic lines.

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Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna.

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Swatantra Party

The Swatantra Party was an Indian liberal-conservative political party that existed from 1959 to 1974.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (• tamiḻ nāḍu ? literally 'The Land of Tamils' or 'Tamil Country') is one of the 29 states of India.

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Telugu people

The Telugu people or Telugu Praajalu are the people who speak Telugu as a first language.

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Three-language formula

The three-language formula for language learning was formulated in 1968 by the Ministry of Education of the Government of India in consultation with the states.

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Travancore-Cochin

Travancore-Cochin or Thiru-Kochi was a short-lived state of India (1949–1956).

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Udupi district

Udupi district in the Karnataka state of India was created in August 1997.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Paśchimbāṅga) is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_State

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