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the Justice Party survived the no-confidence motion brought against it after the 1923 election in Madras Presidency.

in 1844 Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty established the Crescent, the first Indian-owned newspaper in Madras Presidency.

the Justice Party won the first election held in Madras Presidency in 1920 after a dyarchical system of government was established in 1919.

the Swaraj Party refused to form a government despite winning the 1926 election in Madras Presidency.

the devadasi (temple courtesan) system was outlawed in the Madras Presidency partly due to the efforts of Moovalur Ramamirtham, a former devadasi herself.

Indian freedom fighter T. S. S. Rajan practised as a doctor in Burma and England before being appointed as the Minister for Health and Religious Endowments of the Madras Presidency.

Yakub Hasan Sait, who served as the Minister of Public Works for the Madras Presidency from 1937 to 1939, was a native of Nagpur and a former member of the All India Muslim League.

Nathaniel Higginson (signature pictured), the first Mayor of Madras city and the second American-born President of Madras, was the son of Puritan minister John Higginson, a leading investigator in the Salem witch trials.

P. Munuswamy Naidu became the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency after the 1930 election.

P. Munuswamy Naidu, senior leader of the Justice Party in Madras Presidency, British India, supported the inclusion of Brahmins in the party.

Rettamalai Srinivasan, Dalit leader from the Madras Presidency, was a brother-in-law of famous Dalit activist Iyothee Thass.

T. V. Sundaram Iyengar laid the foundation for the motor transport industry in South India, when he started a bus service in Madurai, Madras Presidency in 1912.

British economist Gilbert Slater suggested in the Madras Legislative Council that a committee be appointed to investigate the introduction of a common script for the Madras Presidency.

Exploring the Madras Presidency: A Historical Quiz

1 The main Hindu denominations were Saivite, Vaishnavite and ________.

2 [126] Coffee was cultivated in the region of Wynad and the kingdoms of ________ and Mysore[127] while tea was cultivated on the slopes of the Nilgiri Hills.

3 However, as no party was able to attain clear majority, the Governor set up an independent government under the leadership of ________ and nominated members to support it.

4 The Government Arts College, established in ________ in 1867, was one of the first educational institutions outside Madras city.

5 [69] Christians were mainly concentrated in the Tinnevely and ________ districts of Madras Presidency. Native Christians formed over one-fourth of the total population of the princely state of Travancore.

6 Most of the Congress leadership and erstwhile ministers were arrested in 1942 following their participation in the ________.

7 [13] However, in 1655, the status of Fort St George was downgraded to an Agency and made subject to the factory at ________.

8 [85] The name of this communistic right to property was known as kaniachi among the Vellalars, swastium among the ________ and mirasi among Muslims and Christians.

9 [52] He also participated in the Vaikom satyagraha which campaigned for the rights of untouchables in ________ to enter temples.

10 The freedom struggle was actively endorsed by nationalistic newspapers such as ________[39][40] and Swadesamitran[41] and Mathrubhumi.

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