Tiruvannamalai district is one of the 30 districts of the state of Tamil Nadu, in South India, and Tiruvannamalai town is the district headquarters. The district is dividedd into 6 taluks/seats: Chengam, Tiruvannamalai, Polur,Arani,Vandavasi and Cheyyar. Arani is famous for silk sarees Image File history File links View of the Arunachalaswarar temple complex from Arunachal mountain. ... Image File history File links View of the Arunachalaswarar temple complex from Arunachal mountain. ... The state of Tamil Nadu, in southeastern India is divided into 30 districts. ... India is subdivided into 28 states, 6 union territories and a National Capital Territory. ... Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ... A map of South India, its rivers, regions and water bodies. ... Tiruvannamalai is a town in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. ...
The embryonic seed of the town, Tiruvannamalai, is at this focus point where the beginning and the end of the religious obligations meet at the temple which became the place of encounter and the reference point for pilgrims undertaking the giripradakshina.
At the apogee of the Vijayanagar Empire, in the 16th Century Tiruvannamalai was a religious halt on the highway of the pilgrimage of the south, and, under the Moghuls, it played the role of a garrison-town for the armies, between the citadel of Vellore and the fortresses of Tiyadurga and Tiruchirapalli.
Tiruvannamalai has also played a leading role in the military operations during the Mysore wars, because the kings of Sarangapatnam considered the Chengam pass to be the doorway to the Coromandel plain and they did their best to keep control over it.
When the states in India were re-organized in the 1950's, under the States Reorganisation Act, the then Government of Kerala gave Kanyakumari district to Tamilnadu (because majority of the population spoke Tamil in the district) in exchange for Palghat district.
Though the official population count (for the municipal area) is close to 2.25 lakhs, a sizable population lives around the town, making the small district of Kanyakumari, with a population of about 17 lakhs, one of the most densely populated districts in Tamilnadu and in South India.
The concentration of the population of the town and the District is along the coastal belt along the western side, while the largely forested areas on the eastern side of the district (along the Western Ghats) is sparsely populated.
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