Ripon Building
Gleaming white civic hall with a chiming central clock tower, seat of the city corporation since 1913.
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This guide to the Ripon Building in Chennai asks why a gleaming white civic hall carries the name of Lord Ripon, Governor-General of British India in the early eighteen-eighties. It follows the bill drafted by Courtenay Ilbert in eighteen eighty-three and the planters, officials and newspapers who rose against it. Stand where you can see the central clock tower, which is still wound by hand.
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