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Karaikudi News and Updates Karaikudi is a city and municipality in Sivaganga district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is part of the area commonly referred to as "Chettinad".

The town derives its name from thorny plant Karai referred in ancient literature as Kareekudi, which in modern times became Karaikudi. The town is believed to have been formed during the 1800s and the oldest structure in the town is the Koppudaiya Nayagi Amman Temple.Mahatma Gandhi delivered two speeches in Karaikudi in 1927. Bharathiyar, a freedom fighter and poet visited Karaikudi in 1919 to par

ticipate in a function organized by the Hindu Madhabhimana Sangam. Post independence, the town registered significant growth in the industrial sector. The town is home to Nagarathar, a business community of Tamil Nadu.Karaikudi and surrounding areas are generally referred as "Chettinadu". Chettinadu is a collection of 76 villages and towns. Chettinad includes areas in modern day Ramnathapuram District and Pudukottai State of British India.The Chettiars are the financiers and trade facilitators. By the early 19th century finance had become their primary occupation and they became famed lenders to land-owning families and in underwriting the grain trade through the provision of hundis. Several members of the Chettiar community migrated to nearby Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, particularly Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Burma in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

12/08/2017

LET'S SAVE WATER, SECURE THE FUTURE.

24/06/2017
School Zone!
20/07/2015

School Zone!

Karaikudi R S Ramanathan chettiar municipal high school has launced its own website. It has become the first of its kind to have a website.

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26/06/2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm3X3lJgGGc

This is the documentary which bagged the citation for 'Convention Trophy' at the 55th Annual NASA Convention . Presented by NIT Trichy, Dept. of Architecture...

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26/06/2015

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This temple at Koviloor, has its own legend. Once upon, in the ancient past, the nearby place to this temple had been called as Thirukanapair. Now it's been ...

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