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Updated: May 13, 2025
There was still a demand for more weavers, and eventually a large vacant tract was marked out as a 'Weavers' Town, under the name of Chindadre Pettah the modern Chintadripet. In order to attract weavers, houses were built at the Company's expense, which weavers were permitted to occupy as hereditary possessions.
In Chintadripet to-day there are still many spinners and weavers; and one of the sights in Chintadripet growing gradually more rare is the spectacle of primitively-clad urchins or grown men spinning in the streets with primitive gear and in primitive fashion; and it is interesting to recall the fact that this has been going on in Chintadripet for nearly two centuries an industry which the Company established.
The next warning was given a few years later when Tipu, the son of Haidar Ali, Sultan of Mysore, after ravaging the country round Madras, came so near to the city itself that parties of his horsemen were scampering about in the suburb of Chintadripet.
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