Chingleput District (Madras Presidency)

Chingleput District Chengalpattu
District of the Madras Presidency
1793–2003
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Location of Chingleput district at the time of the formation of Madras State in 1956
Capital	Karunguzhi (1793 - 1825) and (1835 - 1859), Kanchipuram (1825 - 1835), Saidapet (1859 - 1947), Chingleput (1947-2003)
Area
• 1901	7,974.5 km2 (3,079.0 sq mi)
Population
• 1901	1,312,122
History
• Collectorates merged into a single district	1793
• Bifurcated into the districts of Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur	2003
Preceded by Succeeded by Nawab of the Carnatic Kanchipuram district Tiruvallur district Chengalpattu district
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Chingleput". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 233.

Chingleput district was a district in the Madras Presidency of British India. It covered the area of the present-day districts of Kanchipuram, Chengalpattu and 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 capital Saidapet, now a neighbourhood in the city of Chennai, was made the administrative headquarters of the district.^[1]