Pudukkottai district

The district Pudukkottai (Tamil: புதுக்கோட்டை மாவட்டம் ) is a district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Administrative center is the eponymous town Pudukkottai.

Geography

The district Pudukkottai is located southwest of the Kaveri Delta and belongs to the Chola Nadu region, the historical heartland of the Chola Empire. The area of ​​the district is 4,652 square kilometers. Neighboring districts are in the south of Ramanathapuram, Sivaganga in the southwest, Tiruchirappalli in the northwest and in the northeast of Thanjavur. In the southeast, the district proportion of the coast of Palkbucht, which is situated between India and Sri Lanka part of the Gulf of Bengal.

The district Pudukkottai is divided into eleven taluks Iluppur, Kulathur, Gandarvakkottai, Ponnamaravathi, Pudukkottai, Karambakkudi, Thirumayam, Alangudi, Aranthangi, Avudayarkoil and Manamelkudi.

History

Today's Pudukkottai district is largely congruent with the area of the historic principality Pudukkottai. This was founded in the late 17th century by Raghunatha Tondiman. In the Karnataka - wars in the 18th century, the Raja of Pudukkottai allied with the British and were therefore continue to govern during the British colonial period Pudukottai as nominally independent princely state under British suzerainty. One year after the Indian independence the princely state of Pudukkottai was dissolved 1948 and the district Tiruchirappalli the then Madras State slammed. As part of the reorganization of the Indian states, the area came in 1956 to the newly formed State of Madras (now Tamil Nadu ). In 1974 the territory of Pudukkottai was re-dissolved from the district of Tiruchirappalli to form with some areas of the district Thanjavur district Pudukkottai.

Population

According to the Indian census of 2011, the district Pudukkottai has 1,618,725 inhabitants. Compared to the last census in 2001 the population had grown by 10.9 per cent, slightly slower than the average for Tamil Nadu ( 15.5 per cent). The population density is 348 inhabitants per square kilometer below the mean of the state. The literacy rate is 77.8 percent slightly lower than the average of Tamil Nadu ( 80.3 per cent), but higher than the total of India ( 74.0 percent). The district Pudukkottai is rural: only 19.4 percent of the population live in cities. The degree of urbanization is well below the average for the state ( 48.5 percent). According to the 2001 census, 70.2 percent of the working population is employed in agriculture.

The population of the district are the Hindus according to the 2001 census, 88.7 percent, a large majority. There are also minorities of Muslims ( 6.7 per cent ) and Christians (4.6 percent).

Attractions

The district Pudukkottai is located off the beaten track, but has a number of culturally and historically valuable sites exhibit. In the village Tirumayam 20 km south of Pudukkottai located on a steep cliff, built a fort in 1687. At the foot of the rock are two cave temples, one of which is dedicated to Lord Shiva and the other Vishnu. The Vishnu shrine is one of the Divya Desams, the 108 holy places of Tamil Vaishnavism.

Im 20 miles from Puddukottai remote village Kudumiyamalai a large round rock hill from the plane rises. The place is an old Shiva worship space. At the foot of the granite rock is a stone temple of Nayak dynasty from the 17th century. Behind performs an input into a small cave temple from the 7th or 8th century. On the smooth rock wall, a three -meter wide rock inscription is preserved between a sunken Ganesha relief and the Temple wall, which represents one of the earliest sources for Indian music. The vowel notation of the melodic material of seven basic ragas is the Pallava ruler Mahendravarman attributed to I (r. 600-630 order ).

16 km from Pudukkottai is the village Sittannavasal. Here is the Jain cave temples Arivar - koil with faded murals from the 7th or the 9th century. Near the cave temple is the oldest inscription of the district to see a Tamil Brahmi inscription from the 1st century BC.

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