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{{Short description|Textile mill in Chennai, India}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=August 2018}}

'''Buckingham and Carnatic Mills''', popularly known as '''B & C Mills''', were [[textile mill]]s run by [[Binny and Co.]] in the city of [[Chennai]], [[India]]. The mills were closed down in 1996 and the site is now used as a container freight station and is a popular venue for film shootings.<ref name="toi_20101203">{{cite news|title=Chequered history of a textile company|work=[[Times of India]]|first=Shalini|last=Umachandran|url=http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Layout/Includes/TOINEW/ArtWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=TOICH%2F2010%2F03%2F12&ViewMode=HTML&PageLabel=6&EntityId=Ar00601&AppName=1|date=12 March 2010|accessdate=11 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120910231727/http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Layout/Includes/TOINEW/ArtWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=TOICH%2F2010%2F03%2F12&ViewMode=HTML&PageLabel=6&EntityId=Ar00601&AppName=1|archive-date=10 September 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== History ==

Messrs Binny & Co, one of the biggest private enterprises in the then city of Madras, set up a textile mill of its own, the Buckingham Mills in the wedge between [[Perambur]], [[Vepery]] and [[Basin Bridge]].<ref name="srinivasacharipxxx">{{cite book | title=History of the city of Madras written for the Tercentenary Celebration Committee| first=C. S.|last=Srinivasachari| year=1939| pages=xxx| chapter=Introduction|publisher=P. Varadachary & Co.|place=Madras}}</ref> The company was registered on 17 August 1876 and started functioning in January 1878.<ref name="srinivasacharixviii">{{cite book | title=History of the city of Madras written for the Tercentenary Celebration Committee| first=C. S.|last=Srinivasachari| year=1939| pages=314–315| chapter=Madras in the Present Century-Part I|publisher=P. Varadachary & Co.|place=Madras}}</ref> The Carnatic Mills were founded on 30 June 1881.<ref name="srinivasacharixviii" /> The two companies were merged in 1920.<ref name="srinivasacharixviii" /> Binny also started the Bangalore Woollen, Cotton and Silk Mills in 1884.<ref name="muthiahp263">{{cite book | title=Madras Rediscovered| last=Muthiah| first=S.| year=2004| authorlink=S. Muthiah| publisher=East West Books (Madras) Pvt Ltd| isbn=81-88661-24-4|page=263}}</ref> The mills functioned successfully till the 1970s when rot set in.<ref name="muthiahp263" /> Running on heavy losses, the mills were finally closed in 1996.<ref name="toi_20101203" /><ref name="muthiahp263" />

India's first labour union, the Madras Labour Union (MLU) was formed at Buckingham and Carnatic Mills by [[B. P. Wadia]] and [[V. Kalyanasundaram Mudaliar]] on 27 April 1918.<ref name="slaterp168">{{cite book|title=The Dravidian Element in Indian Culture|url=https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.23738|year=1924|publisher=Ernest Benn|first=Gilbert|last=Slater|authorlink=Gilbert Slater|page=[https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.23738/page/n174 168]}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Defunct textile companies of India]]
[[Category:Companies based in Chennai]]
[[Category:Textile mills in India]]
[[Category:Textile industry in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Indian companies established in 1876]]
[[Category:1876 establishments in India]]
[[Category:Indian companies disestablished in 1996]]

Buckingham and Carnatic Mills - Revision history

>OlliverWithDoubleL at 23:07, 21 June 2021