Kallakudi
| Kallakudi கல்லக்குடி |
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| State : | Tamil Nadu | ||
| District : | Tiruchirappalli | ||
| Sub-district : | Lalgudi | ||
| Location : | 10 ° 59 ′ N , 78 ° 57 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 11,604 (2011) | ||
Kallakudi ( Tamil : கல்லக்குடி Kallakkuṭi [ ˈkalːʌkːuɖi ]), also Dalmiapuram , is an industrial city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu . It is located in the Tiruchirappalli district around 30 kilometers northeast of the district capital Tiruchirappalli . The population is just under 12,000 (2011 census).
Kallakudi is the location of a cement plant of the Dalmia Cement group , which uses the rich limestone deposits in the area. In 1953, Tamil nationalists protested that Kallakudi had been renamed Dalmiapuram ("Dalmia City") after the north Indian industrialist Ramakrishna Dalmia , the founder of the Dalmia Group. For them, the renaming was a symbol of the dominance of North India over the South. A group of activists of the DMK party led by the later Chief Minister Tamil Nadus, M. Karunanidhi , painted over the name “Dalmiapuram” on the station sign and blocked the tracks an arriving train. In the ensuing clashes with the police, two activists lost their lives and others were seriously injured. Karunanidhi was subsequently sentenced to six months in prison. After the DMK came to government in Tamil Nadu and M. Karunanidhi became head of government in 1969, Dalmiapuram was renamed Kallakudi again.
74 percent of Kallakudi's residents are Hindus , 21 percent Christians and 5 percent Muslim . The main language, as in all of Tamil Nadu, is Tamil, which is spoken by 89 percent of the population as their mother tongue. 8 percent speak Telugu , 1 percent each Kannada and Malayalam .
Individual evidence
- ^ Census of India 2011.
- ↑ Sumathi Ramaswamy: Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, Berkley 1997, p. 108 f. and 226.
- ↑ Ramaswamy 1997, p. 270, fn. 30.
- ^ 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 .