Connemara Public Library
Indo-Saracenic public library from the eighteen nineties, a national depository for books printed in India.
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This guide to the Connemara Public Library in Chennai begins with a foundation stone laid in March eighteen ninety by the Governor of Madras, Lord Connemara, and the year that unravelled around him. It follows a London courtroom, a wife's petition and a city newspaper's verdict, then the architect and master builder who carried on. Stand where you can see the old building behind the modern block in front.
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