MADRAS MAKEOVER

metropolitan area may have been renamed Chennai in 1996, but traces of old Madras remain in its wealth of architectural treasures. What began in 1640 as a fortified trading post of the British East India Company on a strip of coastal land—then named Madarasapatinam—evolved into the leading colonial city of South India. It was in Madras that British architects and engineers pioneered the Indo-Saracenic style, and a trove of Art Deco buildings