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Egmore

Egmore is a neighbourhood of Chennai, India situated about from kilometre zero of Chennai city. Lying on a peninsular bulge on the northern banks of the Cooum River, apart from being an important transportation and tourism hub as well as shopping district, Egmore also has residential colonies. The Egmore Railway Station was formerly the main terminus of the South Indian Railway Company and later, the metre gauge section and still an important station of Southern division of the Indian Railways and one of the two main railway terminii of Chennai city, the other being the Chennai Central railway station. The Government Museum, Chennai situated at Egmore is the second oldest museum in India and one of the largest in the country. Tamil Nadu Archives and Historical Research, the official archival facility of the Tamil Nadu government, is also situated in Egmore. While the region was probably inhabited as early as the Megalithic period, the earliest inscriptional references to Egmore date to that of the Chola king Kulothunga I, who reigned from 1070 to 1120. During the Vijayanagar Empire, the region was subdivided into fiefs which were held by military chieftains of Nayaks. Towards the end of the 17th century, Egmore passed on to the Mughal Empire and was acquired by the British East India Company in 1693 along with four other villages.…

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Egmore is a neighbourhood of Chennai, India situated about from kilometre zero of Chennai city. Lying on a peninsular bulge on the northern banks of the Cooum River, apart from being an important transportation and tourism hub as well as shopping district, Egmore also has residential colonies. The Egmore Railway Station was formerly the main terminus of the South Indian Railway Company and later, the metre gauge section and still an important station of Southern division of the Indian Railways and one of the two main railway terminii of Chennai city, the other being the Chennai Central railway station. The Government Museum, Chennai situated at Egmore is the second oldest museum in India and one of the largest in the country. Tamil Nadu Archives and Historical Research, the official archival facility of the Tamil Nadu government, is also situated in Egmore. While the region was probably inhabited as early as the Megalithic period, the earliest inscriptional references to Egmore date to that of the Chola king Kulothunga I, who reigned from 1070 to 1120. During the Vijayanagar Empire, the region was subdivided into fiefs which were held by military chieftains of Nayaks. Towards the end of the 17th century, Egmore passed on to the Mughal Empire and was acquired by the British East India Company in 1693 along with four other villages.…

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  1. date of establishment: 1905 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of establishment is "1905". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375123893

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