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Madras is an older colonial name for Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu state and India's fourth largest city. Madras may also mean:

Places

• Tamil Nadu, a state in India, formerly known as Madras state
• Madras, Oregon, a city in Jefferson County in the US (named for the cloth, not the Indian city)
• Madras Presidency, a former province of British India, which includes most of modern-day Tamil Nadu and costal Andhra, with its combined capital at Madras

Food and drink

• Madras sauce, a moderately hot curry dish
• Madras (beverage), an alcoholic beverage containing vodka mixed with cranberry and orange juice

Other

• Madras (cloth), a type of cotton fabric originating in the Tamil Nadu, India
• Madras bashai, a mixed language spoken in Chennai
• Madra, an ancient people who lived in northwest Panjab in ancient India
• Madra, the tiny, bright moon of the fictional Yeerk home world in Animorphs
• Madra, a minor character in Animorphs
• Madras College, a secondary school located in St. Andrews, Scotland
• A version of Monitorial System called The Madras System
• "Madras eye," another name for conjunctivitis or "pinkeye."
• a line of summer clothing by Old Navy

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