Introductory 1. Prospecting for a Settlement 2. Original Site and Development of the Settlement 3. Madras and the Country Powers - The Grant of Sri Ranga Raya: Advance of Golconda 4. Madraspatam and Chennapatnam - Their Probable Origin and Extent 5. The Period of Agency 6. Progress Under Langhorne (1672-78) 7. The Governorship of Streynsham Master and W. Gifford (1678-87) 8. The Governorship of Elihu Yale (1687-92) and of Nathaniel Higginson (1692-98) 9. Governor Pitt (1698-1709) 10. Successors of Pitt (1711-25) 11. Reorganisation of the Corporation and Foundation of Chintadripetta (1725-35) 12. Madras from 1735 to 1752 13. Madras under Saunders and Pigot and their Successors (1752-1775) 14. Governor Pigot and his immediate Successors (1775-1803) 15. Madras in the first quarter of the 19th Century (1803-1827) 16. A Period of Rapid Progress (1827-1859) 17. Forty Years of Madras History (1860-1900)
