Pallavaram
| Pallavaram பல்லாவரம் |
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| State : | Tamil Nadu | ||
| District : | Kanchipuram | ||
| Sub-district : | Alandur | ||
| Location : | 12 ° 58 ′ N , 80 ° 9 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 23 m | ||
| Residents : | 215,417 (2011) | ||
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Pallavaram ( Tamil : பல்லாவரம் Pallāvaram [ ˈpalːaːʋəɾʌm ], also Pallavapuram ) is a city in the suburbs of Chennai (Madras), the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu . The population is around 215,000 (2011 census).
Pallavaram is located around 20 kilometers southwest of downtown Chennai and four kilometers southwest of Chennai Airport in the hinterland of the coast of the Bay of Bengal . The city belongs to the Taluk Alandur of the Kanchipuram district and is part of the Chennai metropolitan area . At Pallavaram, a single rock, Pallavaram Hill, rises from the otherwise flat area. In addition, the lake Periya Eri ("Great Lake") is located in Pallavaram. The lake once measured 76 hectares, but has shrunk significantly due to increasing environmental degradation. The NH 45 ( Grand Southern Trunk Road ) leading to the southwest , one of the main arteries of Chennai, runs through Pallavaram. In addition, the city is on the southwestern line Chennaier suburban railway ( Chennai Suburban Railway connected) to the city center.
In Pallavaram a stone tool from the early Paleolithic was found in 1864 , which is one of the earliest references to human settlement in India. The name Pallavaram is derived from Pallavapuram ("Pallava City") and refers to the Pallava dynasty , who ruled the region from nearby Kanchipuram from the 6th to 9th centuries . A cave temple from the time of King Mahendravarman I (600–630), which was later converted into a Dargah (Muslim Sufi shrine), commemorates the Pallava period . During the British colonial period , a garrison ( Pallavaram Cantonment ) was established in Pallavaram in 1882 as an extension of the garrison on the nearby St. Thomas Mount . Since 1970 Pallavaram has the status of a municipality ( municipality ). The Pallavaram garrison is under the administration of the garrison town of St. Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram . As a result of the expansion of Chennai, Pallavaram has experienced considerable population growth: between 2001 and 2011 alone, the population grew by 50 percent. Pallavaram ranks fourteenth among the largest cities in Tamil Nadu.
84 percent of Pallavaram's residents are Hindus , 8 percent are Christians and 6 percent are Muslims . As in all of Tamil Nadu, the main language is Tamil, which is spoken by 84 percent of the population as their mother tongue. 9 percent speak Telugu , 3 percent Urdu and 2 percent Malayalam .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Census of India 2011.
- ↑ The Hindu, July 2, 2012: "The slow death of Pallavaram periya eri".
- ^ Census of India 2011: C-1 Population By Religious Community. Tamil Nadu.
- ↑ Census of India 2001: C-16 City: Population by Mother Tongue (Tamil Nadu), accessed under Tabulations Plan of Census Year - 2001 .