Sadras
| Sadras சதுரங்கபட்டினம் |
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| State : | Tamil Nadu | ||
| District : | Kanchipuram | ||
| Sub-district : | Tirukalukundram | ||
| Location : | 12 ° 29 ′ N , 80 ° 8 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 6,301 (2011) | ||
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Sadras or Sadurangapattinam ( Tamil : சதுரங்கபட்டினம் Caturaṅkapaṭṭiṉam [ ˈsad̪ɯɾʌŋɡəˌpaʈːinʌm ]) is a village in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu .
Sadras is located on the Coromandel Coast in northern Tamil Nadu, 70 kilometers south of Chennai (Madras), the capital of the state. The beach town of Mamallapuram (Mahabalipuram) is 16 kilometers north. In the immediate vicinity of Sadras is the place Kalpakkam , which is known as the location of the Madras nuclear power plant . The old village of Sadras is located between the nuclear power plant and the newly established settlement of Kalpakkam Township. Sadras belongs to the Taluk Tirukalukundram of the Kanchipuram district . According to the 2011 census, the place has around 6,300 inhabitants. Sadras is administered by a village council according to the Panchayat system.
During the colonial period, Sadras was a base in the Netherlands . The Dutch founded a trading post in 1647 and later built a fortress. During the Dutch period, Sadras was a center of muslin production . The Dutch soon came into competition with the British East India Company , which had founded Fort St. George in nearby Madras in 1640 . During the First Coalition War , the British conquered Sadras in 1795, but ceded it to the Netherlands again in 1818 under the terms of the British-Dutch Treaty of 1814 . After the British and Dutch had defined their spheres of interest in Asia in the British-Dutch Treaty of 1824 , Sadras became finally British in 1825, along with the rest of the Dutch possessions in India.
Fort Sadras in Sadras still reminds of the Dutch colonial times. Of the four bastions of the fortress, three have been preserved. Fort Sadras has been restored under the direction of the Archaeological Survey of India since 2003 .
literature
- The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Volume 21: Pushkar to Salween. New edition Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, pp. 348–349 , keyword: Sadras .
