Fort St. George Museum
Colonial-era exchange hall turned museum of arms, portraits and India's surviving 1947 silk flag.
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This audio guide to the Fort St. George Museum in Chennai follows a single flagstaff on the ramparts of England's first fortress in India, from the day Governor Elihu Yale raised the Union Jack in sixteen eighty-eight to the morning of independence. Along the way you'll meet the French who briefly held Madras, and a freedom fighter named Arya Bhashyam who climbed the mast one January day in nineteen thirty-two. Best heard where you can see the mast above the sea gate.
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