Ulundurpettai or Ulundurpet is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
in
Ulundurpet taluka 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 Ancient ...
of
Tamil Nadu
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, India.
It is at the intersection of
NH 68 and
NH 45 located 205 km from
Chennai
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and 129 km from
Tiruchirappalli
Tiruchirappalli (), also known as Trichy, is a major tier II city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Tiruchirappalli district. The city is credited with being the best livable and the cleanest city of T ...
. 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, and is in Ulundurpet
revenue block
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.
The Panchayat Town also has a railway station connecting
Villupuram Junction,
Villupuram and
Virudhachalam Junction,
Virudhachalam.-
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
pepper (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
Lord Siva
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Shiva is known as ''The Destroyer' ...
. The merchant then built a temple for the lord.
Demographics
As of the
2011 India census, 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 () is one of the 39 Lok Sabha (Parliament of India, parliamentary) constituencies in Tamil Nadu, a Federated state, state in southern India.
Assembly segments
Viluppuram Lok Sabha constituency comprises the ...
.
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
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Cities and towns in Kallakurichi district
Revenue blocks of Kallakurichi district