Fort Saint George
Seventeenth-century English fortress where Madras began, now seat of the state legislature.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Fort Saint George in Chennai goes back to sixteen thirty-nine, when an East India Company trader named Francis Day was bargaining with a local ruler over a strip of sand by a fishing village. It follows the cheap cloth, the rivers and the cranky ship captains behind that choice, and the founding document nobody can find. Best heard near the flagstaff, with the old walls in view.
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