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The Company erected its east-coast installations in the year 1642 just down the road from the Dutch, at Mandaraz, pronounced “Madras” by the British.
Newspapers in both countries call the Indian government's response to the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814 "bungled and botched" (the Hindu of Madras) and a "startling muddle" ( Dawn of Pakistan).
Indian entrepreneurs developed their own cotton mills in Bombay, Ahmedabad, Kanpur, and Madras, but the new tea gardens were a strictly British affair.
Shivaji then had himself crowned King of the Marathas and, to pay his soldiers, plundered the country all the way east to Madras.
Meanwhile, the British clerk-turned-soldier Robert Clive won a long campaign against the French for Madras.