Madrasi

English Alternative forms en Madrassi Noun en dated A native or resident of Chennai in India. en 1896 G. P. Pillai G. Paramaswaran Pillai Representative Men of Southern India Introduction, p. vii https://archive.org/details/cu31924064186616 Runga Charlu was subjected to grave accusations in Mysore as he had the misfortune to be a Madrasi. en by extension A native of South India; a person of South Indian extraction (exonym; often considered offensive). en 1916 w:Annie Besant India a Nation: A Plea for Indian Self-Government London T.C. & E.C. Jack 2 40 https://archive.org/details/indianationpleaf00besa When the hardships of a Madrassi are complained of, we are told that a Panjabi is well off: that the taxation “on an average” is only so-and-so, Northern India being more lightly taxed than Southern. Chapter 2 ‘Oh, hell! I’d snivel psalms to oblige the padre, but I can’t stick the way these damned native Christians come shoving into our church. A pack of Madrassi servants and Karen school-teachers. ’ en 1961 w:V. S. Naipaul w:A House for Mr Biswas Vintage International 2001 Part One, Chapter 6 The midwife, an old, thin, inscrutable Madrassi, came to the hall and sat on her haunches in a corner, smoking, silent, her eyes bright. en Post-independence literature w:Stabroek News 20 May 2010 http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/features/05/30/post-independence-literature/ Moses Nagamootoo explores the creation of a landscape and a heritage in Guyana by the Madrassi in his novel Hendree’s Cure en Xavier Bennet Discrimination is everywhere w:The Times of India 26 July 2012 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/citizen-journalists/citizen-journalists-reports/xavier-bennet/Discrimination-is-everywhere/articleshow/15159772.cms Coming from a South Indian Tamil family that had settled in the western India, “Madrasi” was my family’s nickname in the neighbourhood and so was mine at school. The name in itself was obnoxious, not to mention the stereotyping it brought along with it. For North Indians, anyone from the South was a Madrasi, irrespective of where they came from. https://web.archive.org/web/20241218174429/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/citizen-journalists/citizen-journalists-reports/xavier-bennet/Discrimination-is-everywhere/articleshow/15159772.cms 18 December 2024 en Sudhish Kamath The Mythical Madrasi w:The Hindu 21 May 2014 http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/the-mythical-madrasi/article5032236.ece Hindi cinema has been guilty of stereotyping the “Madrasi” since the days of Mehmood. The “Madrasi” usage probably stems from the days of the British Raj when the Madras Province covered Tamil Nadu, parts of Kerala (excluding Travancore) and Andhra Pradesh and even Karnataka (excluding Mysore) and thus anyone from the South was automatically presumed to be from the Madras Presidency…a Madrasi. https://web.archive.org/web/20231205105249/https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/the-mythical-madrasi/article5032236.ece 5 December 2023 en chess A fairy chess rule where a piece that is attacked by a piece of the same type is paralyzed, rendering it unable to move. Synonyms native of Chennai en Chennaiite Adjective - Of or relating to the city of Chennai in India, formerly known as Madras. Anagrams en aadimrs Damaris aramids madaris masarid samarid en Demonyms