1) This book makes a pioneering attempt to analyse the relation between East India Company and Urban Environment in colonial India through the history of Madras. 2) It is rich in archival resources and deals with themes like infrastructural development; housings and buildings, city and suburbs; and development lands and roads in colonial period. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of environmental history, colonial history, modern Indian history, urban environment, urban history, political economy, urban economic history, Indian history, and South Asian studies.