Rajaji Hall

The hall was built by John Goldingham to commemorate the British victory over Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War.

[1] The Banqueting Hall was constructed between 1800 and 1802[2] by John Goldingham, an astronomer and engineer with the British East India Company.

[1][3] The building was commissioned by Edward Clive, the then Governor of Madras, who envisaged the hall to be an extension of the Government House which was being renovated that year.

[1][4] The hall was built to commemorate the company's victory over Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War[1] and designed to be a venue for social functions.

[5] The Government House and Gandhi Illam were demolished during the construction of a new Tamil Nadu legislative assembly-secretariat complex between 2008 and 2010,[9] apparently causing irreparable damage to the hall's foundations.