Tamil Nadu Timeline

Anna Salai

2 events, 1844 to 1927.

  1. 1844

    1. 1844Culture

      Higginbotham's bookshop founded in Madras

      Abel Joshua Higginbotham founded Higginbotham's on Mount Road, regarded as India's oldest bookshop still in existence.

  2. 1927

    1. 1927Protest

      Neill Statue Satyagraha

      Nationalists in Madras campaigned for the removal of the statue of Colonel James Neill from Mount Road.