Chennai in the Interwar Period
The atlas holds 5 people and 10 moments here, from 1918 to 1936. The most recorded lives are Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Jawaharlal Nehru.
Notable people
Jawaharlal Nehru
in 1927
1 moment here
Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and statesman who became independent India’s first prime minister, serving from 15 August 1947 until his…
Jiddu Krishnamurti
in 1922
1 moment here
Indian philosopher, speaker, and writer. Raised within the Theosophical Society, he became head of the Order of the Star in the East, dissolved it at…
Satyendra Nath Bose
in 1929
1 moment here
Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician whose 1924 work founded Bose-Einstein statistics.…
Srinivasa Ramanujan
in 1920
2 moments here
Indian mathematician whose documented life moved between Tamil Nadu, southern India, England, and back to India.…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
from 1918 to 1936
5 moments here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Moments
- 1918 Settlement in Madras Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1920 Final treatment in Chetpet Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1920 Death at Chetpet Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1922 Meeting his father at Adyar Jiddu Krishnamurti
- 1922 Student at Hindu High School Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1925 Studies at Presidency College Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1927 Madras Congress session Jawaharlal Nehru
- 1929 Indian Science Congress session in Madras Satyendra Nath Bose
- 1936 Return visit to Madras Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1936 Marriage to Lalitha Doraiswamy Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar