Chingleput District (Madras Presidency)

Chingleput District செங்கல்பட்டு மாவட்டம்
District of the Madras Presidency
← 1793–1997 →   →
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Location of Chingleput district at the time of the formation of Madras State in 1956
Capital		Karunguzhi (1793 - 1825) and (1835 - 1859), Kanchipuram (1825 - 1835), Saidapet (1859 - 1947), Chingleput (1947-1997)
History
•	Collectorates merged into a single district	1793
•	Bifurcated into the districts of Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur	1997
Area
•	1901	7,974.5 km2(3,079 sq mi)
Population
•	1901	1,312,122
	Density	164.5 /km2  (426.2 /sq mi)
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "". Encyclopædia Britannica. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 233.

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Chingleput district was a district in the Madras Presidency of British India. It covered the area of the present-day districts of Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur and parts of Chennai city. It was sub-divided into six taluks with a total area of 7,970 square kilometres (3,079 sq mi). The first capital was the town of Karunguzhi, with an interruption between 1825 and 1835, administrative headquarters were transferred to Kanchipuram. In 1859 the capital Saidapet, now a neighbourhood in the city of Chennai, was made the administrative headquarters of the district.

Excavations made by Robert Bruce Foote indicate that the region was inhabited in the Stone age. During the end of first millennium B. C, it was under the Thondaiman kings. The Pallavas with their capital at Kanchi came to power in about 500 A. D. When the Pallava kingdom began to decline, the region was conquered by the Western Gangas in about 760 A. D. Chingleput was ruled by the Rashtrakutas, Cholas and the Kakatiyas of Warangal until the 13th century AD when it fell to the Delhi Sultanate. Chingleput area was conquered by the Vijayanagar Empire which ruled the region from 1393 till 1565 and from 1565 till 1640 as the kingdom of Chandragiri.

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