Bodinayakkanur

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Bodinayakkanur (Tamil: போதிநாயக்கனூர் Pōtināyakkaṉūr [ bo ː ˌ DI na ː ː jʌk ənu ː r], also Bodinayakanur, Bodi short ) is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu with around 76,000 inhabitants ( 2011 census ).

Bodinayakkanur is located in Theni district of Tamil Nadu in the south west 93 km west of Madurai and 16 kilometers west of Theni district capital near the border of the neighboring Federal State of Kerala. The city is located in Kambam Valley and is surrounded on two sides by mountains: in the west of the main ridge of the Western Ghats forming a natural border with Kerala, in the north rise the Palani Mountains, a spur of the Western Ghats. Bodinayakkanur is the capital of the eponymous taluks ( sub-district ) in the district of Theni.

Bodinayakkanur is a trading center where the income of the cardamom plantations in the mountains are handled in the area. Through the city leads the National Highway 49, which crosses coming from Rameswaram via Madurai the Western Ghats and leads to Kochi in Kerala. Moreover Bodinayakkanur terminus of the line Madurai Bodinayakkanur. In early 2011 the rail traffic was discontinued in order to switch the route by meter gauge to broad gauge Indian.

During the Vijayanagar and Nayak period ( 14th to 18th century) Bodinayakkanur seat of a Feudalguts which a vassal ( Poligar ) was owned by the Nayaks of Madurai. The local Poligar dynasty should be 1336 immigrated from Gooty. After Bodinayakkanur was the end of the 18th century in the short term under the control of Mysore and Travancores, it came under British rule in 1801. The Poligars of Bodinayakkanur were used by the British as zamindars ( landowners ). After the Indian independence in 1947, the zamindari system was abolished.