Robert Clive and Dupleix were great adversaries and played important roles during the early years of Madras. Dupleix, the French Governor General of Pondicherry was the first one to think of an European Empire in India and had captured Madras in 1746 only to hand it over to the British back in 1749 based on a peace treaty signed in Europe. Where in Madras now will you find the names of Robert Clive and Dupleix side by side?
Ans: The conference halls in Taj Coromandel hotel are duly named Clive Hall, Dupleix Hall and Clive & Dupleix Hall :-). I came to know of this when I attended an IBM Tech Symposium in the Clive & Dupleix Hall two weeks back.
Note: I have copied all the Chennai Trivia questions to a new blog, chennaitriviae.blogspot.com . Note the e, blogger wouldn't allow chennaitrivia, hence I settled for chennaitriviae. Is there any way to export comments other than copy paste? Please let me know
7 comments:
hmm.. scratched my head hard. i am a big chennai trivia buff but still cant nail this down
No i dint saw his name any where in chennai. good information
fort. st george museum.
Surya, I haven't seen their names together in the museum.
Bharat, Jeevan - it is a offbeat question, I myself came to know only a couple of weeks back
Chenthil, you have been tagged ! Check out this link - http://www.ideamani.com/2005/10/i-got-tagged.html
chen - your link to the second blog is wron. please fix it
fixed Tilo
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