The Madras Army was the army of the Presidency of Madras, one of the three presidencies of the British India within the British Empire.
The presidency armies, like the presidencies themselves, belonged to the East India Company until the Government of India Act 1858 (passed in the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion of 1857) transferred all three presidencies to the direct authority of the British Crown.
In 1903 all three presidency armies were merged into the Indian Army.
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