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75. Madras District Gazetteers, Statistical Appendix for Chingleput District, Government Press, Madras, 1915, p.2. TNA.

76. The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Vol. Ill, pp.386-87, TNA.

77. Asylum Press Almanac, 1892, Madras, p.814, TNA.

Scale of fares for passengers (Railways).

Class Per pass. mile Minimum charges

Rs. A P Rs. A. P.

I Class 010 036

II Class 004 010

III Class 002 006

78. Asylum Press Almanac, 1892, p.848.

79. Baliga, op.dt., p.4.

80. W.R. Cornish, Report on the Census of the Madras Presidency 1871, Vol.1, Government Press, Madras, 1874, p.66. "In the Year 1859-60, the two districts of Madras Town and Chingleput were amalgamated into a single district... Again divided in 1870 as Madras and Chingleput district". Report on the Administration of the Madras Presidency during the year 1868-69, Government Press, Madras 1869, Appendix III, p. (C xiii).

81. Report on the Administration of the Madras Presidency during the year 1866-67, printed at the United Scottish press, by Graves, Cockson & Co., 1867, p.36.

82. William Digby, Famine Campaign in Southern India, 1876-78, Vol. I, p.48.

83. General Reports of the Board of Revenue to the Governor in-Coundl, dated 24-2-1834., TNA.

84. DalyeU, op.dt., p.28, G.O. No. 724 dated 27-3-1867.

85. For remissions:- General Reports of the Board of Revenue to the Governor-in-Coundl, dated 15-12-1808, p.91, TNA. For total revenue:- Crole, op.dt., p.10, converted into Rs.

* 1 star pagoda = Rs. 2-8-0

** 1 Cawnie = 1.32 acres

@ 1 Garce = 2468.6 ibs (approx.)

86. General Reports of the Board of Revenue to the Governor-in-Council (1825-26), op.dt, p.322, TNA.

87. Chingleput District Records, Vol. 3845, pp.121 and 134, TNA.

88. General Reports of the Board of Revenue to the Governor-in-Council(l 825-26), op.dt., pp.327^328, TNA.

89. For 1830:- Proceedings of the Board of Revenue, Dated 4-3-1833, TNA. For 1839:- Proceedings of the Board of Revenue dated 19-7-1852, TNA.

90. Crole, op.dt., p.21.

91. Digby, Famine Campaign in Southern India, 1876-88, Vol. I, p. 11.

92. The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Vol. II, p.415.

93. Digby, Famine Campaign in Southern India, 1876-88, Vol. II, p.316.

94. Ibid., p.221.

95. Ibid., p.375.

96. Ibid./ p.75.

97. Ibid., pp.364 and 368.

98. Srinivasaragavaiyangar, op.dt.. Appendices, p. (XCVii.

99. Charles, Benson, op.dt., p.336.

100. Proceedings of the Board of Revenue, dated 27th December 1892, para 49, TNA.

101. Ibid./ para 50.

102. Benson and Majoribanks, op.dt., p.336.

103. Report of the Madras Estates Land Act Committee, Part III, Price levels and Graphs, Government Press, Madras, 1938. ^

104. Charles and Marjoribanka, op.dt., p.330.

105. Srinivasaragavaiyangar, op.cit., p.300.

106. Ratnam, op.dt., p.430.

107. Voelcker, op.dt., pp.83, 85, 88-90.



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