The place of English East India Company settlement in Madras was known as
- A.Fort William
- B.Fort St. George
- C.Elphinstone Circle
- D.Marble Palace
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Fort St. George. The English East India Company built Fort St. George at Madras (Madraspatnam) in 1639 to 1644, and the city of Madras, now Chennai, grew around it.
In 1639 Francis Day and Andrew Cogan obtained a grant of land on the Coromandel coast from a local Nayak ruler of the Vijayanagara line. The fort completed there was named after St George, the patron saint of England, and became the Company's first fortified settlement in India and the headquarters of the Madras Presidency. Today it houses the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and Secretariat, and St Mary's Church inside it is the oldest Anglican church east of Suez.
A is wrong because Fort William was the Company's fort at Calcutta, built around 1696 to 1702. C is wrong because Elphinstone Circle, now Horniman Circle, is in Bombay. D is wrong because the Marble Palace is a nineteenth-century mansion in Calcutta.
Exam tip: Fort St. George, Madras (1639 to 1644); Fort William, Calcutta (around 1700); Bombay came by dowry in 1661.
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