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This is a road that connects #PetersRoad and #BharatiSalai and is one of the few roads in the city where you can see the age-old enamel signboard. Follow this thread and know more about why it came to be named so!
This is a road that connects #PetersRoad and #BharatiSalai and is one of the few roads in the city where you can see the age-old enamel signboard. Follow this thread and know more about why it came to be named so!
The thoroughfare is believed to commemorate Jaan-e-Jahan Khan, a 19th century Honorary Municipal Commissioner of Chennai.
He was a descendant of an aristocratic Muslim family and was secretary to Prince Azim Jah, playing an important role in the 1857/8 correspondences between his master and the British Government that finally ended in the former being given the honorary title of Prince of Arcot -
- and a permanent pension.
Historian and writer V Sriram points out that an 1877 Madras Corporation listing of printing presses in the city gives the name of this thoroughfare as Janay Jahan Khan’s Road — the apostrophe indicating without a doubt that he lived in this street -
Historian and writer V Sriram points out that an 1877 Madras Corporation listing of printing presses in the city gives the name of this thoroughfare as Janay Jahan Khan’s Road — the apostrophe indicating without a doubt that he lived in this street -
-and that it was named after him.
Research Source: The Hindu
Research Source: The Hindu
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