Amir Mahal
Royal residence of the Princes of Arcot, converted from an East India Company office building.
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This guide to Amir Mahal in Chennai follows the Nawabs of Arcot, a family whose old court at Chepauk Palace ran down to the beach and the Cooum River, with elephants stabled inside its walls. It picks up in eighteen fifty-five, when the last titular Nawab died and the family's seaside life came under British control. You'll hear about a cramped stopgap house on Triplicane High Road and a Company building with a very different first purpose. Best heard from the pavement across from the gate on Bharathi Salai.
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