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The '''Madras Literary Society''' is a [[learned society]] in [[Chennai]] (earlier called Madras), [[India]] which was founded in 1817<ref>{{cite book|title=History of the City of Madras|author=Srinivasachari, C.S.|publisher=P. Varadachary & Co.|place=Madras|year=1839|page=216|url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofthecity035512mbp#page/n301/mode/2up}}</ref> and in 1830 it became associated with the [[Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland]]. It was founded by Sir [[John Henry Newbolt]], Chief Justice of Madras with Benjamin Guy Babington as the founder secretary. The Society produced a journal called the ''Transactions of the Literary Society of Madras'' and from 1833 under the name of ''[Madras] Journal of Literature and Science''. Most of the early members were Europeans and the first Indian to be admitted was Kavali Lakshmayya who worked with [[Colin Mackenzie]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Precolonial Intellectuals and the Production of Colonial Knowledge|author=Wagoner, Phillip B.|journal=Comparative Studies in Society and History|volume=45|issue=04|year=2003|pages= 783–814|doi=10.1017/S0010417503000355}}</ref> The journal ceased publication in 1894. The journal published extensive researches on geology, meteorology, fauna, flora, culture and history.<ref>{{cite journal|pages=332–333|title= Review-Transactions of the Literary Society of Madras|journal=The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and its Dependencies|volume=26|year=1828|author=Anon.}}</ref> Some of the major contributors to the journal included [[Thomas C. Jerdon]] and [[Walter Elliot (Scottish naturalist)|Walter Elliot]]. The library run by the society in a red sandstone building in the Department of Public Instruction complex in [[Nungambakkam]] is the oldest functional public library in the city and one of the oldest in India. The [[Government Museum, Chennai]] started as an extension of the Madras Literary Society library in Nungambakkam before moving to the present premises in Pantheon Road, [[Egmore]]. In 1890, a major part of the library's book collection was moved to a new building in the same premises as the museum to form the [[Connemara Public Library]]. The main library continues to exist in the premises of the DPI albeit in a dilapidated state.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Asiatic Society]]<br />
* [[Delhi Archaeological Society]]<br />
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924095153/http://www.scholarly-societies.org/history/1812mls.html Madras Journal of Literature and Science]<br />
* {{cite news|title=Survivors of time: Pages from the past|first=Asha|last=Sridhar|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/survivors-of-time-pages-from-the-past/article2512070.ece|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=October 4, 2011}}<br />
* {{cite news|title=At home with books|date=17 October 2014|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/libraries-in-chennai-take-a-tour-of-chennais-many-places-of-paradise/article6511414.ece|work=The Hindu|first=J.|last=Lalitha}}<br />
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