Thorapalli or Thorapalli Agraharam is a village in

Hosur taluk Hosur taluka is a taluka of Krishnagiri district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The headquarters is the City of Hosur, Krishnagiri, Hosur. This taluk consists of 76 Revenue Villages Demographics According to the 2011 census, the taluk of Hos ...

Krishnagiri district Krishnagiri district is one of the 38 districts (a district in the north western part) of the state of Tamil Nadu, in India. This district is carved out from Dharmapuri District by 2004. The municipal town of Krishnagiri is the district head ...

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. It is located on the banks of the Ponnaiyar river about 6 km south-east of

Hosur Hosur is an industrial city located in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Hosur is one of the municipal corporations in Tamil Nadu. It is located on the bank of the river River Ponnaiyar, southeast of Bengaluru and west of Chennai, the state ...

close to the Hosur- Krishnagiri road (

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), about 50 kilometres from

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. It is the birthplace of C. Rajagopalachari, the last

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and second chief minister of Madras State (now Tamil Nadu).

Demographics

2011

The

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reported that Thorapalli had a population of 9,849 people. The sex ratio was 90.13, with 4,669 males and 5,180 females. The literacy rate was 62.43, with 6,149 literates (3,014 male and 3,135 female) and 3,700 illiterates (1,655 male and 2,045 female).

2001

The

2001 Census of India The 2001 Census of India was the 14th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871. The population of India was counted as 1,028,737,436 consisting of 532,223,090 males and 496,514,346 females. Total population increased by 18 ...

reported that Thorapalli had a population of 2947, with 1365 males and 1350 females. The sex ratio was 989 and the literacy rate was 53.01.

References

* {{cite web, title=Primary Census Abstract - Census 2001, url=http://www.census.tn.nic.in/pca2001.aspx, publisher=Directorate of Census Operations-Tamil Nadu, url-status=dead, archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090829003438/http://www.census.tn.nic.in/pca2001.aspx, archivedate=2009-08-29 Villages in Krishnagiri district