tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2188431352689766747.post6736701069264742871..comments2024-03-20T11:20:21.938+05:30Comments on Chennai Daily Photo: Another rest-houseShantaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18175992199727107267noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2188431352689766747.post-82611501031976125692010-01-29T23:46:32.554+05:302010-01-29T23:46:32.554+05:30@ Karthik: The family (families?) had a lot of pro...@ Karthik: The family (families?) had a lot of property, which seem to have been usurped by managers and other outsiders. I remember something about several court cases, involving them, from the 1940s.Shantaramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18175992199727107267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2188431352689766747.post-9212266542778882862010-01-29T20:48:16.003+05:302010-01-29T20:48:16.003+05:30Hi Shantaram,
Awesome pic...the blue skies and th...Hi Shantaram,<br /><br />Awesome pic...the blue skies and the yellow shade on the buildings make for a wonderful contrast.<br /><br />This building, at the junction of Rasappa Chetty Street and Wall Tax Road was opened in 1917-18. Paramananda Doss Chota Doss were one of the many merchants constituting the then hub of silk trade in Madras, the Mint Street dealing in "pithumburams,angavasthrams" as Somerset Playne reports in his 1914 book. According to an account I heard,they went out of business some time in the middle of the 20th century.<br />There is a lovely one shrine temple dedicated to Lord Satyanarayana in the ground floor of this building which I remember going to a few times as a small kid.KARTHIK A.BHATThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10509330387528249286noreply@blogger.com