Chintadripettah

In the early stages of the City of Madras return to the most basic stages of English commercial enterprise in India. The English East India Company was happening in 1600. The expansion of these fringes points to an epoch of huge affluence in the cotton trade, which was the major investment of the Company. The Dubashes and chief merchants of the Company occupied in the deliver of cotton goods to the Company increased to vast riches.

Sunkurama had a bulky garden in the curve of the Cooum river south of Periamet which was acquired over in 1735 for a novel weavers’ village recognized as Chintadripettah (In ancient day it was identified as chinna thari pettai ). By that time Sunkurama had dropped into dishonor and was succeeded by his associate Thambu Chetty as the head merchant.