The British East India company set up its first municipal corporation at Madras in the year ____ CE.
A
1680
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B
1687
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C
1695
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D
1700
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Solution
The correct option is B 1687 Inaugurated on 29 September 1688 CE, under a Royal Charter issued by King James II on 30 December 1687 as the corporation of Madras, it is the oldest municipal body of the Commonwealth of Nations outside Great Britain.