The Madras Presidency was a province of British India comprising most of the present day Tamil Nadu along with a few districts and taluks of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Orissa. A few princely states, notably Ramnad and Pudukkottai also merged into the Presidency at some or the other time. The Presidency lasted till 1950, when it became the Madras State after India became a republic. In 1953 Telugu-speaking regions of the state split to form Andhra State. Subsequently in 1959, Kannada- and Malayalam-speaking areas were merged with Mysore and Travancore.