Egmore

Egmore
—  neighbourhood  —
Egmore Location of Egmore in Chennai and India
Coordinates	13°04′41″N 80°15′32″E
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District(s)	Chennai
Assembly constituency	Egmore
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
Codes • Pincode • 600008

Egmore (Tamil: எழும்பூர்) is one of the busiest neighbourhoods of Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India. Government Museum (Chennai) founded in 1851 is located in Egmore. Egmore is served by the Chennai Egmore railway station.

History

Madras Egmore railway station in 1926

Egmore is the Anglicized form of "Ezhumbur" the name of a pre-British era village situated on the northern banks of the River. Despite the fact that Egmore had been a part of the East India Company's possessions since 1720, it was not until the "Golden age of British rule" stretching from 1858 to 1947 that Egmore witnessed some real growth.The Egmore Museum was one of the first notable monuments to be constructed here.The construction of this famous landmark was undertaken immediately after the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.The Connemara Library was created as an annexure housing the Museum's vast book collection and became operational in 1896.

Egmore, in 1796, was the site of the Military Male Orphan Asylum near Madras. This asylum was headed by Andrew Bell, who invented the Madras System for schooling there.

The Egmore railway station is the second most important in the state of Tamil Nadu after the Chennai Central Railway Station.It was constructed in 1908 and functioned as the headquarters of the now-defunct Madras and South Mahratta Railway till 1951.

Main places

Egmore Railway station

• Chennai Egmore railway station.
• Office of the commissioner of Greater Chennai Police department.
• Government Museum, Chennai.
• Connemara Public Library, one of the biggest libraries in India.
• National Art Gallery
• Directorate of Public Instruction (DPI).
• Women's Christian College
• Ethiraj College for Women
• Good Shepherd’s Convent
• Rajarathinam Stadium
• Don Bosco Higher Secondary School
• Fine arts college
• Spencer Plaza - the biggest mall in India.
• Hotel Chennai gate
• Hotel Taj Connemara
• Hotel Ambassador Pallava
• Hotel Westin Park
• Hotel Ashoka
• St. Andrew's Church (An old Scottish Presbyterian Church commonly referred to as the 'Kirk')
• Parsn Towers

Museum Theatre in Government museum, Egmore, Chennai

St.Andrew Church

Connemara Public Library

Politics

Egmore vote
by alliance in assembly elections

Year	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)
2006	40.3% 31,975	48.5% 38,455
2001	47.6% 33,103	47.7% 33,189
1996	19.7% 13,876	72.6% 51,061
1991	47.8% 21,936	50.5% 23,139
1989*	21.1% 16,124	49.8% 38,032
1984	47.4% 27,246	51.8% 29,795
1980	37.6% 23,444	61.2% 38,200
1977	28.0% 19,414	38.6% 26,746

State assembly politics

Main article: Egmore (State Assembly Constituency)

Egmore has been a stronghold for Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), ever since the party's creation. Other than barely losing to Congress in 1962 election, it has consistently voted for DMK, even during times of low popularity for the DMK. However it is worth noting, that recently the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (ADMK), have made significant in-grounds, like they have in many localities around Chennai, which used to be DMK strongholds. Egmore is also 1 of the two total constituents won by DMK in 1991 election. This constituent is reserved for scheduled caste. This is also the first MLA seat held by K. Anbazhagan, when he won it in 1957 election.

• Note: In 1989, ADMK was split between Janaki faction and Jayalalithaa faction, and only the Jayalalithaa faction is reported in the ADMK column since they were the highest vote getter from the divided faction. The Janaki faction got 4,293, which is about 5.6% of the voters.

Lok Sabha politics

Egmore assembly constituency is part of Chennai Central (Lok Sabha constituency).

External links

• Chennai