Madras Legislative Council (1861–91)
The first Indian Councils Act of 1861 set up the Madras Legislative Council as an advisory body through which the colonial administration obtained advice and assistance. The Act empowered the provincial Governor to nominate four non-English Indian members to the council for the first time.
The official and non-official members of the Madras Legislative Council between 1861 and 1891.
The Council met infrequently and in some years (1874 and 1892) was not convened even once. The maximum of number of times it met in a year was eighteen. The Governor preferred to convene the Council at his summer retreat Udagamandalam, much to the displeasure of the Indian members. The few times when the Council met, it was for only a few hours with bills and resolutions being rushed through.
The Council became a unicameral legislative body in 1921 and eventually the upper chamber of a bicameral legislature in 1937.
(అంటే 1921-37 వ్యవధిలో కౌన్సిల్ ఒక్కటే ఉండేది. కనుక జి.ఓ. సమయంలో శాసన సభ(లెజిస్లేటివ్ అసెంబ్లీ) లేదు కనుక శాసనఅధికారాలు లెజిస్లేటివ్ కౌన్సిల్ కు మాత్రమే పరిమితం, సంపూర్ణం అన్నమాట. After India became independent in 1947, it continued to be the upper chamber of the legislature of Madras State, one of the successor states to the Madras Presidency. It was renamed as the Tamil Nadu Legislative Council when the state was renamed as Tamil Nadu in 1969.
The Council was abolished by the M. G. Ramachandran administration on 1 November 1986. In 2010 the DMK regime headed by M. Karunanidhi tried to revive the Council. The current AIADMK regime has expressed its intention not to revive the council and has passed a resolution in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly in this regard.
The territory under the Presidency of Madras had increased manifold. In 1785, the Province of Madras was created and the President became the Governor of Madras. https://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_BrProvinces.htm#Madras
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colonial_Governors_and_Presidents_of_Madras_Presidency
The Council had a total of 127 members in addition to the ex - officio members of the Governor's Executive Council. Out of the127,
The rapid growth of the population of Madras necessitated the expansion of the city and the creation of more residential
colonies.
On 1 April 1936, the Ganjam district was separated from Madras Presidency and constituted in the newly created province of Orissa.
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19.(a)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_State
Madras State(formed 1950) was a state of India during the mid-20th century. At the time of its formation in 1950, it included the whole of present-day Tamil Nadu (except Kanyakumari district), Coastal Andhra, Rayalaseema, the Malabar region of North and central Kerala, and Bellary, South Canara.
Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema were separated to form Andhra State in 1953, while South Canara and Bellary districts were merged with Mysore State
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Malabar District with the State of Travancore-Cochin to form Kerala in 1956.
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On January 14, 1969, Madras State was renamed to Tamil Nadu, meaning "Tamil country".
History: After Indian Independence, the Madras Presidency became the Madras Province on 15 August 1947.On 26 January 1950, Madras Province was formed as Madras State by the Government of India. The administrative area still included present-day Andhra Pradesh, Cochin State and Malabar district of present-day Kerala and South Canara districts in present-day Karnataka. As a result of the 1956 States Reorganisation Act, the state's boundaries were re-organized following linguistic lines. The state was finally renamed as Tamil Nadu on 14 January 1969 by C.N.Annadurai, Chief Minister.
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(b)Mysore State
Upon Indian independence on 15Aug 1947, the territories of the erstwhile princely state of Mysore were then reconstituted into a state within the Union of India.
As a result of the States Reorganisation Act on 1 November 1956, the Kannada-speaking districts of Belgaum (except Chandgad taluk), Bijapur, Dharwar, and North Canara were transferred from Bombay State to Mysore State.
Bellary district was transferred from Andhra State.
South Canara was transferred from Madras State
and the Koppal, Raichur, Gulbarga and Bidar districts from Hyderabad State.
Also, the small Coorg State was merged, becoming a district of Mysore State.[5][6] The state was renamed Karnataka on November 1, 1973.
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Bombay State was a large Indian state created at the time of India's Independence, with other regions being added to it in the succeeding years.
Bombay Presidency (roughly equating to the present-day Indian state of Maharashtra, excluding South Maharashtra and Vidarbha) was merged with the princely states of the Baroda, Western India and Gujarat (the present-day Indian state of Gujarat) and Deccan States (which included parts of the present-day Indian states of Maharashtra and Karnataka.
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Travancore–Cochin or Thiru–Kochi was a short-lived state of India (1949–1956). It was originally called United State of Travancore and Cochin and was created on 1 July 1949 by the merger of two former kingdoms, Travancore and Cochin with Thiruvananthapuram as the capital. It was renamed State of Travancore–Cochin in January 1950.
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Under State Reorganisation Act of 1956, the four southern taluks of Travancore, namely Thovalai, Agasteeswaram, Kalkulam and Vilavancode and a part of the Chencotta, Tenkasi Taluk was merged with Madras State.
On 1 November 1956 Travancore-Cochin was joined with Malabar District of Madras State to form the new state of Kerala, with a governor, appointed by the President of India, as the head of the state instead of 'Rajapramukh'.
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Madhya Bharat, also known as Malwa Union,[1] was an Indian state in west-central India, created on 28 May 1948[2] from twenty-five princely states which until 1947 had been part of the Central India Agency,[3] with Jiwajirao Scindia as its Rajpramukh.
The union had an area of 46,478 square miles (120,380 km2).[4] Gwalior was the winter capital and Indore was the summer capital. It was bordered by the states of Bombay (presently Gujarat and Maharashtra) to the southwest, Rajasthan to the northwest, Uttar Pradesh to the north, and Vindhya Pradesh to the east, and Bhopal State and Madhya Pradesh to the southeast. The population was mostly Hindu and Hindi-speaking.
On 1 November 1956, Madhya Bharat, together with the states of Vindhya Pradesh and Bhopal State, was merged into Madhya Pradesh.
The nominal head of Madhya Bharat state was Rajpramukh. It had also the post of an Uparajpramukh.
ad of 'Rajapramukh'.
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Vindhya Pradesh was a former state of India. It occupied an area of 23,603 sq. miles.[1] It was created in 1948 as Union of Baghelkhand and Bundelkhand States, shortly after Indian independence, from the territories of the princely states in the eastern portion of the former Central India Agency. It was named as Vindhya Pradesh on 25 January 1950 after the Vindhya Range, which runs through the centre of the province. The capital of the state was Rewa. It lay between Uttar Pradesh to the north and Madhya Pradesh to the south, and the enclave of Datia, which lay a short distance to the west, was surrounded by the state of Madhya Bharat.
Vindhya Pradesh was merged into Madhya Pradesh in 1956, following the States Reorganisation Act.
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Bhopal was a state of India, which existed from 1949 to 1956. The state evolved out of the princely state of Bhopal, and was merged with neighbouring states to form Madhya Pradesh in 1956. Shankar Dayal Sharma of the Indian National Congress served as chief minister of Bhopal state from 1952 to 1956.
According to the States Reorganisation Act of 1956, Bhopal state was integrated into the state of Madhya Pradesh, and Bhopal was declared as the capital of the newly formed state.
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