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Journal of Indian History December 1944

1944

The inmates of the Fort used to look out from the windows the sailing of an East Indianian and the laning of goods and passengers by the masula boats through the surf on to the beach just opposite to the Sea gate. [...] The goods were piled on the sand in front of the Sea gate just about the place where the road now runs waiting to be carried to the Office of the Sea Customs —the Officer is now called the Collector of Customs. [...] In 1798 the Second Lord Clive Governor of Madras ordered the removal of the Custom House from inside the Fort first of all to the temprary huts on the beach and then to the Paddy Godown on the North East Beach lately occupied as a French Prison "—the site of the present Custom House. [...] The rapidity of fhe movement was so adjusted that the duration of the flashes varied from 0 to 48" and of the eclipses from 0" to 72' roughly in the ratio of 2 : 3. Designed to clear vessels of the Pulicat Shoal and into the roadstead it was visible at 20 miles distance from the deck of the ship in clear weather. [...] Although the majority of the people at Delhi had reconciled themselves to the new Government a certain section of the population was bitterly opposed to the rule of the regicide.
history
Pages
44
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120079
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv S. Aiyangar view
Annals of Old Madras Lighthouse Road
163-168 K. Narasimhachari view
Sultan Nasiruddin Khusrau Shah (1320 A.D.)
169-180 Kishori Lal view
A Chapter in the History of Sikh Militarism
181-188 Anil Banerjee view
Editorial
189-191 unknown view
Bookreviews
192-196 unknown view
Our Exchanges
197-198 unknown view
Backmatter
i-iv unknown view

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