Ulundurpettai or Ulundurpet (உளுந்தூர்பேட் / உளுந்தூர்பேட்டை) is a

Municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in Ulundurpet taluk of

kallakurichi district Kallakurichi is one of the 38 districts in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. The district headquarter is Kallakurichi. Kallakurichi District was announced on 8 January 2019 and it came into existence on 26 November 2019. History During Ancien ...

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, India. It is at the intersection of NH 68 and NH 45 located 205 km from

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and 129 km from

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. Ulundurpettai itself is a Constituency for Tamil Nadu State Assembly, and is the Taluk headquarters for Ulundurpet taluka in the eastern region of

Kallakurichi district Kallakurichi is one of the 38 districts in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. The district headquarter is Kallakurichi. Kallakurichi District was announced on 8 January 2019 and it came into existence on 26 November 2019. History During Ancien ...

, and is in Ulundurpet

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. The Panchayat Town also has a railway station connecting Villupuram Junction,

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and Virudhachalam Junction,

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.- Ulundurpet railway station.

Etymology

Ulundurpet was once the home for Palyagar(பாளையகாரர்) . The remains of the mud fort are still to be seen. The name Ulundurpettai is derived from the Saivaite temple currently called as Mashapureeswarar (மாஷபுரீஸ்வரர்) temple, located in the area Ulundandar Kovil (உளுந்தண்டார் கோவில்), dedicated to Ulundandar or the Lord of the black-gram. The story goes that a merchant was once halting there with a consignment of

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(மிளகு). When a man came up and asked what was in the bags. The merchant lied and said it was black-gram (உளுந்து) to which the stranger replied 'Let it be so'. At the next stage the man found that his goods had actually been changed into black-gram and returning to the spot where he had told the lie he found the stranger still there and realized that he was

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. The merchant then built a temple for the lord.

Demographics

India

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, the town of Ulundurpettai had a population of 23,734. Males constituted 50% of the population and females 50%. Ulundurpettai had an average literacy rate of 71%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy was 79%, and female literacy was 63%. As of 2011 in Ulundurpettai, 12% of the population was under 6 years of age.

Politics

Ulundurpettai assembly constituency is part of

Villupuram (Lok Sabha constituency) Viluppuram Lok Sabha constituency ( ta, விழுப்புரம் மக்களவைத் தொகுதி) is one of the 39 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Tamil Nadu, a state in southern India. Assembly Segments V ...

. Ulundurpet is one of the state assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu. A J Manikannan is the Member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly since May 2 2021.

References

{{Kallakurichi District Cities and towns in Kallakurichi district Revenue blocks of Kallakurichi district