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Chintadripet

Coordinates: 13°04′30″N 80°16′11″E / 13.0750°N 80.2698°E / 13.0750; 80.2698
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Chintadripet
Chinna Thari Pettai
Neighbourhood
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Coordinates: 13°04′30″N 80°16′11″E / 13.0750°N 80.2698°E / 13.0750; 80.2698
CountryFile:Flag of India.svg India
StateTamil Nadu
DistrictChennai
Revenue divisionChennai South
TalukMylapore
CityChennai
Metropolitan areaChennai Metropolitan Area
Established1735
Government
 • TypeMunicipal corporation
 • BodyGreater Chennai Corporation
 • MayorR. Priya
 • Corporation CommissionerG. S. Sameeran, IAS
 • Ward councillorR. Jagadeesan (DMK)
 • MLAUdhayanidhi Stalin (DMK)
 • MPDayanidhi Maran (DMK)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total
36,871
 Ward 62
Languages
 • OfficialTamil
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
600002
Telephone code044
Corporation zoneZone 5 (Royapuram)
Municipal wardWard 62
Assembly constituencyChepauk–Thiruvallikeni
Lok Sabha constituencyChennai Central
Law enforcementGreater Chennai Police
Urban planning authorityChennai Metropolitan Development Authority
Railway stationChintadripet railway station
Major landmarkMay Day Park

Chintadripet (originally Chinna Thari Pettai) is a locality in Chennai, in India.[1] Located on the southern banks of the Cooum River, it is a residential-cum-commercial area surrounded by Chepauk, Island Grounds, Pudupet, Egmore, Anna Salai and Chennai Central[2]

The neighbourhood

The area is served by the Chintadripet MRTS Railway Station abutting the Cooum River.[3] The neighbourhood is an auto service hub[4] and is also known for its fish market.[5]

Historical street names

Several streets in Chintadripet preserve names dating from the colonial period. Blackers Road, which retains that name today, was probably named after H. Blacker, who owned a house at its junction with Mount Road in 1837.[6] Ritchie Street, also retaining its historical name, is attributed to Arthur Macdonald Ritchie, who served as Registrar of the Madras High Court in the nineteenth century.[6] The street later became one of Chennai's principal markets for electronics and electronic components.

Harris Bridge retains its historical name and commemorates Lord Harris, Governor of Madras from 1854 to 1859.[6][7] The adjoining Harris Road, likewise attributed to Harris, was subsequently renamed Adithanar Salai in 1987 by then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M. G. Ramachandran in memory of newspaper proprietor and politician S. P. Adithanar.[6][8][9]

Dams Road runs close to and roughly parallel with the Cooum River. Chintadripet was historically vulnerable to flooding, and the road's name is thought to commemorate the embankments or flood-control works that were repeatedly raised along this stretch of the river.[10]

Wallers Road, historically recorded as Waller Road, is attributed to Thomas Parker Waller, a landowner associated with the establishment of Christ Church on Mount Road.[6] Lafford Street or Lafford Lane also appears in historical records, although the origin of its name remains unidentified.[6]

Arunachallam Street is recorded in older planning documents as Arunachalla Naicken Street.[11] The shortened form, Arunachallam Street, is used in contemporary Greater Chennai Corporation records.[12]

Pumping Station Road takes its name from the sewerage works adjoining the former Napier Park, now May Day Park. Chennai's comprehensive sewerage scheme, constructed in stages between 1910 and 1914, included Napier Park as one of its three principal pumping stations.[13][14] The road retains its historical name and today contains the headquarters of the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board.[15]

Swamy Naicken Street, historically recorded as Sami Naicken Road, is attributed to Sami Naick, an early nineteenth-century vaccination official who lived near Harris Road and Lang's Garden Road.[16] The present spelling, Swamy Naicken Street, is used by the Greater Chennai Corporation.[17]

Cox Street retains its historical name and is attributed to Colonel H. W. H. Cox, a nineteenth-century Commissioner of Police in Madras.[18] Cox served in the Madras Police during the latter half of the nineteenth century and was Commissioner of Police by the early 1890s.[19]

Other historic streets

Ayya Mudali Street (also rendered Iyya Mudali Street) is associated with Chintadripet's hereditary craft of making ornate ceremonial umbrellas for Hindu temples and processions. Artisans from the neighbourhood have produced umbrellas for temples including Tirumala Venkateswara Temple and Parthasarathy Temple.[20]

Chintadripet retains numerous older street names, including Bazaar Street, Guruvappa Street, Kovur Vaithianathan Street, Lazaras Church Street, Rajagopal Street, Singanna Street, Sivaprakasam Street, Sunguvar Agraharam Street and Washermen Street, alongside streets named for local shrines such as Dharma Raja Koil Street, Mukkiamman Koil Street, Padavattamman Koil Street and Palani Andavar Koil Street. Many of these names remain in official municipal use.[21]

Cultural associations

The Suguna Vilasa Sabha, founded in 1891 as an amateur dramatic society, had early associations with Chintadripet, where it rented premises for storing theatrical scenery and stage properties before establishing itself at Victoria Public Hall in 1902.[22] In 1925 the Government agreed to lease Napier Park in Chintadripet to the Sabha for a new theatre, and a foundation stone was laid on 31 January, but the site was subsequently found unsuitable and the project was abandoned.[23]

Politics

Chintadripet forms part of the Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni Assembly constituency (constituency no. 19), which is included within the Chennai Central Lok Sabha constituency (parliamentary constituency no. 4).[24]

Religion

The principal historic Hindu shrines of Chintadripet are the adjoining Adipureeswarar Temple and Adi Kesava Perumal Temple, dedicated respectively to Shiva and Vishnu. The temples were established around 1740 through the patronage of Audiappa Narayana, one of the merchants involved in developing Chintadripet as a settlement for weavers and other textile workers.[25] The two shrines share the same temple complex and are commonly described as the neighbourhood's twin temples.[26]

The neighbourhood also contains the Shri Mahaveer Swami Jain Temple.[27]

Zion Church was opened for worship in 1847 under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and is associated with missionaries Miron Winslow and John Scudder.[28] The church later passed to the Church Missionary Society and is now part of the Church of South India.[29] The Roman Catholic Queenship of Mary Church is another historic Christian institution in the neighbourhood and is listed as a parish of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore.[30]

Parks

May Day Park, formerly Napier Park, is a 14.5-acre (5.9 ha) public park on Deputy Mayor Kabalamoorthy Road. A municipal proposal to establish a park at the site was approved by the Government of Madras in 1869, and the park was named after Francis Napier, then Governor of Madras.[31] It was opened to the public in its later form on 13 September 1950 and was renamed May Day Park in 1996.[32]

The park contains grounds used for cricket, football, volleyball and badminton and has also served as a gathering place for May Day events.[33]

References

  1. ↑ "Chintadripet: A peek into its past and people". The New Indian Express. 18 April 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  2. ↑ "Draft Ward Delimitation Report – Zone V, Ward 62" (PDF). Greater Chennai Corporation. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  3. ↑ "Southern Railway System Map 2025" (PDF). Southern Railway. 2025. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  4. ↑ "Eight years on, Auto Nagar still faces starting trouble". DT Next. 21 October 2018. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  5. ↑ "Chintadripet: A peek into its past and people". The New Indian Express. 18 April 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 "Some Madras street names and their history" (PDF). Madras Musings. Vol. XX, no. 4. 1–15 June 2010. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  7. ↑ History of the City of Madras (PDF). 1939. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  8. ↑ "Chennai Corporation to relocate Adithanar statue to ease traffic". The Times of India. 13 June 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  9. ↑ "113th birthday celebration: tributes paid to S. P. Adithanar statue". Maalaimalar (in தமிழ்). Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  10. ↑ Sriram, V. (10 May 2014). "The Cooum, cleaned by the British". Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  11. ↑ "Development Control Rules for Chennai Metropolitan Area" (PDF). Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  12. ↑ "Amma Unavagam – English" (PDF). Greater Chennai Corporation. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  13. ↑ "Sewerage System". Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  14. ↑ Madras City Report, Census of India 1961 (PDF) (Report). Census of India. 1961. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  15. ↑ "Public Information". Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  16. ↑ Sriram, V. (1–15 September 2009). "A lovers' stroll from People's Park to Kapaleeswarar Temple". Madras Musings. Vol. XIX, no. 10. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  17. ↑ "Council Resolution, 30 July 2024" (PDF). Greater Chennai Corporation. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  18. ↑ "Some more history behind Chennai street names". Madras Musings. Vol. XX, no. 5. 16–30 June 2010. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  19. ↑ First Report of the Royal Commission on Opium. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1894.
  20. ↑ Kumar, J. V. Siva Prasanna (11 September 2014). "Vanishing art of temple umbrellas". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  21. ↑ "Polling Stations – 19 Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni Assembly Constituency" (PDF). Greater Chennai Corporation. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  22. ↑ Sriram, V. (1–15 January 2026). "The VP Hall and Suguna Vilasa Sabha". Madras Musings. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  23. ↑ Sriram, V. (1–15 January 2026). "The VP Hall and Suguna Vilasa Sabha". Madras Musings. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  24. ↑ "List of Polling Stations – No. 19 Chepauk–Thiruvallikeni Assembly Constituency" (PDF). Greater Chennai Corporation. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  25. ↑ "A deity that came from an anthill". The New Indian Express. 14 June 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  26. ↑ "A deity that came from an anthill". The New Indian Express. 14 June 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  27. ↑ "Shri Mahaveerswami Jain Mandir". Bharat Varshiya Jain Tirth Kshetra. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  28. ↑ "Free Church of Scotland, Madras". Basel Mission Archives. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  29. ↑ "A glimpse of the history of CSI Zion Church". CSI Zion Church. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  30. ↑ "Parishes". Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  31. ↑ Report of the Administration of the Municipality of Madras for the Year 1869. H. Morgan. 1870. pp. 58–59.
  32. ↑ Sriram, V. (1–15 May 2025). "Lost landmarks of Chennai" (PDF). Madras Musings. Vol. XXXV, no. 2. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  33. ↑ Amirthalingam, M. "Parks of Chennai". CPREEC. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
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