The Oldest Municipal Corporation in India | Ripon Building, Chennai

The Ripon Building, home to the Chennai Corporation, is named after a viceroy of India who was sympathetic to the Indian cause. But did you know that the birth of the Chennai Corporation is connected to a Governor of Madras who was the very antithesis of Ripon?
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Image Attributions
1. Ripon building: By The Hindu
2. General view of the Corporation of Madras: By The Hindu Archives
3. Elihu Yale: By Enoch Seeman - Yale University Art Gallery [1], Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
4. Fort St. George, Chennai: By Jan Van Ryne (1712-60); Publisher: Robert Sayer - Old source New source, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
5. Government House, Fort St. George: By Thomas Daniell - www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlin..., Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
6. Elihu Yale Memorial Plaque: By WestCoastMusketeer - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
7. Elihu Yale with family and a servant: By anonymous - Yale University Art Gallery [1], Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
8. Yale with a servant: By James Worsdale - artgallery.yale.edu/collectio..., Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
9. Old East India House: By Illustrated London News, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
10. General courtroom, East India House: British Library, WD 2466 Images Online - blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2018/...
11. Ripon Building: By - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
12. ‘Plas Grono’ Yale Mansion: By Theodore Diedrickson Jr. - Yale University Manuscripts & Archives Digital Images Database [1], Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
13. Yale University: By Ad Meskens - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
14. Bird’s eye view of Ripon building: By The Hindu Archives
15. Lord Ripon: By London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company - www.npg.org.uk/collections/se..., Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

[@pradman81]

When you mentioned about Madras and said "Misdeeds of one man" i right away knew you were talking about Yale.

[@ripsanskrit3609]

Great information 😊

[@shanmugambala1883]

Very interesting. I grew up in Madras.

[@dhanurekha6978]

First Municipality in Tamil Nadu- Walajah- 1866.

[@precisetamizhan4891]

But madras ruling the world for more than 300 years😂

[@Ninja-_-Ishaan]

He was a beautiful combination of education and corruption