What is Chingleput District (Madras Presidency)?
'''Chingleput district''' was a district in the Madras Presidency of [[British India]]. It covered the area of the present-day districts of [[Kanchipuram district|Kanchipuram]] and [[Thiruvallur district|Tiruvallur]] and parts of [[Chennai]] city. It was sub-divided into six taluks with a total area of 7,970 square kilometres (3,079 sq mi). The first capital was the town of [[Karunguzhi]], with an interruption between 1825 and 1835, administrative headquarters were transferred to Kanchipuram. In 1859 the region of [[Saidapet]], now a neighbourhood in the city of Chennai, was made the administrative headquarters of the district.<ref>The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Vol. 10: Central Provinces to Coopta. New edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, p. 252–268</ref> == History == Excavations made by Robert Bruce Foote indicate that the region was inhabited in the [[Stone Age|Stone age]]. During the end of first millennium B. C, it was under the Thondaiman kings. The Pallavas with their capital at Kanchi came to power in about 500 A. D. When the [[Pallava dynasty|Pallava kingdom]] began to decline, the region was conquered by the Western Gangas in about 760 A. D. Chingleput was ruled by the Rashtrakutas, [[Chola dynasty|Cholas]] and the Kakatiyas of Warangal until the 13th century AD when it fell to the Delhi Sultanate. Chingleput area was conquered by the [[Vijayanagara Empire|Vijayanagar Empire]] which ruled the region from 1393 till 1565 and from 1565 till 1640 as the kingdom of Chandragiri. The area was annexed by the Mughals in 1687 and was later conquered by the Nawab of the Carnatic. In 1763, Chingleput was ceded to the British [[East India Company]] by Mohammad Ali, the then Nawab of the Carnatic. It was the site of the Carnatic Wars and was frequently taken by Tipu Sultan during the last years of the 18th century.After the independence of India, the district became part in 1950 of the newly named Madras State. As a result of the 1956 States Reorganisation Act, the state's boundaries were re-organised followin