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Thiruvattar is a
Thiruvattar is a panchayat town
A nagar panchayat () or town panchayat or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,00 ...
in Kanyakumari district in the India
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n state
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* State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
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of Tamil Nadu
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About the town
This town is situated northeast ofMarthandam
Marthandam is a major trade centre in Kuzhithurai municipality across National Highway (NH 47) in the Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, India. Formerly known as Thoduvetty (another name for the Marthandam market region), it was a portion ...
and northwest of Nagercoil
Nagercoil, natively spelt as Nāgarkovil (, "Temple of the Nāgas", or Nagaraja-Temple), is a Municipal Corporation city and the administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District in Tamil Nadu state, India. Situated close to the tip of the ...
. The two main rivers, the Pahrali River
Pahrali River (also called Parazhiyar) flows through the Kanyakumari District in southern India. It originates in the Mahendragiri hills. The Mathur Hanging Trough, the highest and longest aqueduct in Asia
Asia ( , ) is the largest ...
and the Kothai surround the village and join in Moovattumugam, giving the name ''Thiru'' (sacred) + ''vatta'' (surround) + ''aru'' (river). This village, where the famous Sri Adikesavaperumal Temple is located, is one of the 108 Divya Desams
Divya Desam (, ) or Vaishnava Divya Desams are the 108 Vishnu and Lakshmi temples that are mentioned in the works of the Alvars, the poet-saints of the Sri Vaishnava tradition. By comparison, the Paadal Petra Sthalam are the 276 Shiva temples ...
. Thiruvattar has been mentioned as Adi Keshava kshetra by Madhva sect saint Shri Vadiraja Tirtha
Sri Vadiraja Tirtha (1480 – 1600) was a Dvaita philosopher, poet, traveller and mystic. He authored many works, often critical, on Madhva theology and metaphysics. Additionally, he composed numerous poems and as the pontiff of Sodhe Mutt, r ...
in his pilgrimage travelogue Tirtha Prabandha
The ''Tirtha Prabandha'' () is one of the main Sanskrit works by Vadiraja Tirtha, the 16th century Dvaita philosopher and saint. The document is written in the form of a travelogue and contains descriptions of pilgrim centers throughout India.
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, written in the sixteenth century.
Demographics
Indiacensus
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
, Thiruvattaru had a population of 18,404. Males constitute 49% of the population and females 51%. Thiruvattaru has an average literacy rate of 77%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 78%, and female literacy is 75%. In Thiruvattaru, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Politics
Thiruvattar assembly constituency is part ofNagercoil (Lok Sabha constituency)
Nagercoil was a Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu, India. K. Kamaraj Nadar, K. Kamaraj. The first elected Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu was elected twice to the Lok Sabha from here. It has been now named as Kanyakumari (Lok Sabha constituency ...
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As per the latest restructuring, the Thiruvattar assembly constituency has been split and merged with nearby constituencies.
See also
*Kulasekaram
Kulasekharam is a town located in the district of Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the most important business centres in the district, after Marthandam.
Kulasekharam has many rubber plantations that yield high quality latex, whic ...
* Vaikunda Chella Pathi
Vaikunda Chella Pathi is one among the oldest Nizhal Thangals in the Western Kanyakumari district. It was located 6 km North-east of Marthandam midway between Marthandam and Kulasekaram at Thiruvattar. It is also the only Nizhal Thangal in t ...
* Kesavapuram
* Excel Central School
References
Cities and towns in Kanyakumari district {{Kanniyakumari-geo-stub