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Vedaranyam Taluk
Vedaranyam taluk is a taluk of Nagapattinam district Nagapattinam district is one of the 38 districts (a coastal district) of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. Nagapattinam district was carved out by bifurcating the erstwhile composite Thanjavur district on 19 October 1991. The town of Nagapatt ... of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The headquarters of the taluk is the town of Vedaranyam Demographics According to the 2011 census, the taluk of Vedaranyam had a population of 215,653 with 107,007 males and 108,646 females. There were 1,015 women for every 1,000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 76.14%. Child population in the age group below 6 was 9,589 Males and 9,083 Females. Villages * Katharipulam * Pushpavanam * Thulasiypattinam References Taluks of Nagapattinam district {{Nagapattinam-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taluk
A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative centre, with possible additional towns, and usually a number of villages. The terms in India have replaced earlier terms, such as '' pargana'' (''pergunnah'') and ''thana''. In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, a newer unit called mandal (circle) has come to replace the system of tehsils. It is generally smaller than a tehsil, and is meant for facilitating local self-government in the panchayat system. In West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, community development blocks are the empowered grassroots administrative unit, replacing tehsils. As an entity of local government, the tehsil office (panchayat samiti) exercises certain fiscal and administrative power over the villages and municipalities within its jurisdiction. It is the ultimate execu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagapattinam District
Nagapattinam district is one of the 38 districts (a coastal district) of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. Nagapattinam district was carved out by bifurcating the erstwhile composite Thanjavur district on 19 October 1991. The town of Nagapattinam is the district headquarters. As of 2011, the district had a population of 697,069 with a sex-ratio of 1,025 females for every 1,000 males. Until Mayiladuthurai district was created out of it on 24 March 2020, Nagapattinam was the only discontiguous district in Tamil Nadu. Etymology ''Nagapattinam'' is derived from ''Nagar'', referring to people, and ''pattinam'' referring to town. In Tamil ''Pattinam'' and ''paakkam'' depicts coastal towns. The town was also called ''Cholakula Vallipattinam'' during the Chola period, when it was one of the important ports. Ptolemy refers to Nagapattinam as Nikam and mentions it as one of the most important trade centres of the ancient Tamil country. This view is doubtful as there is no contemporary e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian State
India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, with a total of 36 entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into districts and smaller administrative divisions. History Pre-independence The Indian subcontinent has been ruled by many different ethnic groups throughout its history, each instituting their own policies of administrative division in the region. The British Raj mostly retained the administrative structure of the preceding Mughal Empire. India was divided into provinces (also called Presidencies), directly governed by the British, and princely states, which were nominally controlled by a local prince or raja loyal to the British Empire, which held ''de facto'' sovereignty ( suzerainty) over the princely states. 1947–1950 Between 1947 and 1950 the territories of the princely states were politically integrated into the Indian union. Most were merged into existing provinces; others were organised into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India by population, sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language—one of the longest surviving Classical languages of India, classical languages in the world—is widely spoken in the state and serves as its official language. The state lies in the southernmost part of the Indian peninsula, and is bordered by the Indian union territory of Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh, as well as an international maritime border with Sri Lanka. It is bounded by the Western Ghats in the west, the Eastern Ghats in the north, the Bay of Bengal in the east, the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Strait to the south-eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vedaranyam
Vedaranyam () (also spelt as Vedaraniam and Vedaranniyam) is a town in Nagapattinam district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The town is named after the presiding deity of the Vedaranyeswarar Temple. The recorded history of Vedaranyam is known from medieval Chola period of the 9th century and has been ruled, at different times, by the Medieval Cholas, Later Cholas, Later Pandyas, Vijayanagar Empire and the British. During India's independence struggle, C. Rajagopalachari, who would later become independent India's first Governor-General, launched a salt march in Vedaranyam parallel to the Dandi March launched by Gandhi in 1930 to protest against the sales tax levied on salt extraction. Vedaranyam comes under the Vedaranyam assembly constituency which elects a member to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly once every five years and it is a part of the Nagapattinam (Lok Sabha constituency) which elects its Member of Parliament (MP) once in five years. The town is administered b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharipulam
Katharipulam is a village in south India, under the administration of the Vedaranyam taluk, and located in the Nagapattinam District in the state of Tamil Nadu. The local language is Tamil. The village population is about 7292, and the village occupies an area of around . It is about north west of Vedaranyam and about south of Velankanni Town, a famous Christian holy place. The postal index number ( PIN) is 614808. According to the 2011 census it has a population of 7292 living in 2113 households. The main agricultural product is coconut growing. Etymology Originally called "Saptha Rishi Pulam", the name of the village has evolved into Katharipulam over time. "Saptha" means seven, "Rishi" denotes Hindu saints, "Pulam" in Tamil means "living place", thus "Saptharishipulam" means "living place of seven saints", the original name. The current name is composed of the parts "kathari" brinjal - a vegetable widely cultivated around these area and "pulam". Climate The maximum temp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pushpavanam
Pushpavanam is a village in Vedaranyam subdistrict in Nagapattinam District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Geography Pushpavanam is seashore village 10.3 km north of Vedaranyam taluk in Nagapattinam District, Tamil Nadu State in India. It is 34.8 km south of Nagapattinam and 291 km from Chennai. It is located on the Bay of Bengal. With the Vedaranyam Canel ( Uppanar River) to the southwest and the Vettar River to the north, Pushpavanam is effectively on an island. Pushpavanam shares its postal pincode (614809) with other villages such as Thethakudi, Periyakuthagai, Sembodai, Kallimedu, and Thamaraipulam. Etymology In sanskrit, "pushpam" means flower, and "vanam" means forest. It is thought to derive its name from people taking flowers to the village from Vedaranyeswarar temple during puja. Another thought is that in the ''Mahābhārata'', Draupadi Draupadi ( sa, द्रौपदी, draupadī, Daughter of Drupada), also referred to as Kr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thulasiypattinam
Thulasiypattinam also spelt Thulajapattinam in the records of British India. This village is governed by Vanduvanchery Panchayat coming in Vedaranyam Taluk, Nagapattinam District Nagapattinam district is one of the 38 districts (a coastal district) of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. Nagapattinam district was carved out by bifurcating the erstwhile composite Thanjavur district on 19 October 1991. The town of Nagapatt ... of Tamil Nadu, India. Vedaranyam is the revenue headquarters of this village, located on the route of Vedaranyam to Muthupettai and this is surrounded by two towns namely Thiruthuraipoondi and Vedaranyam. A delta river (Valavanaru) running west side of this village. Hindu and Muslims are the majority people residing in this village. References Villages in Nagapattinam district Nagapattinam district {{Nagapattinam-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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