Peranamallur
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Peranamallur | |
|---|---|
township | |
  Peranamallur Location in Tamil Nadu, India | |
| Coordinates: 12°34′12″N 79°26′02″E / 12.5699°N 79.4338°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| District | Tiruvanamalai |
| Elevation | 145.87 m (478.6 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 5,801 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Tamil |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 604 503 |
Peranamallur is a panchayat town in Tiruvannamalai district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Peranamallur is located with the coordinates of (12°34′12″N 79°26′02″E / 12.5699°N 79.4338°E). It has an average elevation of 145.87 m above the mean sea level.
History
Since war happened between two groups of soldiers at this place, this town got name as "pe-ra-ni-mallur" then it became "pe-ra-ni-nallur" and now it called as " per-na-mallur". Some believe is there like because of a dam build across the panai-yaar, this name came. This is one of important place of pallava and early cholas on Thondaimandalam. The chola kings used to stay here for rest while they travel to pazhaiyaar, So this became the head for all around the villages. It is mainly dominated and administrated by Samburayar kings like vallavaraiyar headed Thiruvannamalai.
Demographics
The Peranamallur Town Panchayat is divided into 12 wards for which elections are held every 5 years. The Peranamallur Town Panchayat has population of 5,801 of which 2,878 are males while 2,923 are females as per report released by Census India 2011.
The population of children aged 0-6 is 569 which is 9.81% of total population of Peranamallur (TP). In Peranamallur Town Panchayat, the female sex ratio is 1016 against state average of 996. Moreover, the child sex ratio in Peranamallur is around 903 compared to Tamil Nadu state average of 943. literacy rate of Peranamallur city is 76.85% lower than state average of 80.09%. In Peranamallur, male literacy is around 87.32% while the female literacy rate is 66.68%.
Peranamallur Town Panchayat has total administration over 1,450 houses to which it supplies basic amenities like water and sewerage. It is also authorize to build roads within Town Panchayat limits and impose taxes on properties coming under its jurisdiction..
The Pernamallur block is a revenue block in the Thiruvannamalai Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine[1] district of Tamil Nadu, India. It has a total of 57 panchayat villages.
This Town and near by villages have Vanniyars (Vanniya Goundars) dominantly and Scheduled Caste peoples. Other than these, Mudaliyaar. Chettiyar, Brahmin, Kammalar, and other Hindu religion peoples also living along with Jain, Muslims and Christians peoples.