Fort. St. George Madras

Contents: 1. Why Fort St. George was Founded. 2. The Infancy of Fort St. George. 3. The Early Growth of Fort St. George. 4. The Garrison of Fort St. George, and the Soldier of Two Centuries Ago. 5. The Peccadilloes of the Company’s Servants. 6. Streynsham Master, Pilots and Diamonds. 7. St. Mary’s Church and the Vestry. 8. The Exchange Master’s Character and Family. 9. Taxes, Slavery and Interlopers. 10. Pirates and Princes; and the Retirement of Gyfford. 11. Elihu Yale, the Mayor’s Court and Other Matters. 12. Job Charnock’s Visit to Fort St. George, and the Baptism of his Children. 13.  Fifty Years of Merchant Governors: Higginson, Pitt, Addison, Fraser, Harrison, Collet and Milton’s Descendants. 14. Fifty Years of Merchant Governors (Continued). 15.  Clive, Dupleix, the Capitulation of Fort St. George to the French, 1746, and its Siege by Lally in 1758. 16. Pigot,  Cornwallis, Munro, and Others. 17. Fort St. George in the Present Day. 18. The Monuments of the Old Cemetery. Appendix. Index.

This book is a short history of the Fort St. George, the first possession of the British in India. The author briefly narrates the entire history of the fort—why it was founded, its infancy and early growth during the early 1600s, the various British possessors of the fort during the various periods, a detailed description of the various monuments, churches, etc. within the fort, up to the details of the fort in the early nineteenth century. The fine illustrations provided throughout would enable the reader to have a clear picture of this great fort.