Madras High Court
Red-brick Indo-Saracenic court complex with minarets, domes and a plaque marking a wartime shell hit.
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This guide to the Madras High Court in Chennai starts at a small plaque on the courthouse's eastern wall and the German cruiser Emden, which appeared off the harbour on a September night in nineteen fourteen. It follows her captain, Karl von Müller, the Burmah Oil Company's storage tanks by the sea, and what a single raid did to the merchants, shippers and ordinary people of Madras. Best heard standing at the south end of the eastern wall.
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