View of Chengalpattu from the road to Kanchipuram; Johannes Christiaan Bendorp; 1766–1816. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and Google Arts & Culture

A town in Tamil Nadu, India, dated to the early Chola period c. second century BCE. It served as the capital of the Vijayanagara empire and was later the nucleus of the Fort St. George settlement of the British East India Company.