Kamakkapalayam is a village (Gram panchayat) in Salem district

Salem District

Salem District is a district of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The city of Salem is the district headquarters. Other major towns in the district are Mettur, Omalur and Attur...

, Thalaivasal block in the India

India

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States and territories of India

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 of Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

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Kamakkapalayam is about four kilometres south of Thalaivasal

Thalaivasal

Thalaivasal is a village, block headquarter and State Assembly Seat in Salem district, Tamil Nadu - India.-Etymology:In Tamil the word Thalai means Head and Vasal means entrance...

 towards Veeraganur

Veeraganur

Veeraganur is a Town Panchayath in Salem district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.-Demographics:As of the 2001 India census, Veeraganur had a population of 10,534. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Veeraganur has an average literacy rate of 59%, lower than the national...

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History

Kamakkapalayam was part of the Magadai Mandalam

Magadai

Magadai or Magadai Mandalam was a Tamil dynasty that flourished during the 13th and 14th centuries near the modern-day Aragalur. Aragalurudaiya Ponparappinan Rajarajadevan, alias Magadesan, was the Bana chief who ruled this region around 1197...

 as of 1190 AD. Probably, during the Palaiyakkarar

Palaiyakkarar

Palaiyakkarar, Poligar, Polygar or Palegar or Polegar was the feudal title for a class of territorial administrative and military chiefs appointed by the Naicker rulers of South India during 16th - 18th centuries...

 rule, this village was named after the Kameshwara temple's moolavar Kamanathar

Shiva

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. The other villages named after Palaiyakkarar in this area include Govindampalayam, East Rajapalayam, Ammapalayam, Thennankudipalayam, Akkicheetipalayam, Ramanayakkan Palayam and Peddanayakkan Palayam.

Borders

Aragalur

Aragalur

Aragalur is a village in Salem district, Tamil Nadu, India. It is about 6 km from Thalaivasal and 70 km from Salem.-Etymology:...

, Aaraththi Akrahaaram, Thiyakanuor, Thalaivasal

Thalaivasal

Thalaivasal is a village, block headquarter and State Assembly Seat in Salem district, Tamil Nadu - India.-Etymology:In Tamil the word Thalai means Head and Vasal means entrance...

, Deviyaakurichi, Vadagumarai, Thinkumarai, Naavazlur , Nadumedu & Veppampuundi.

Places of interest

• Selli Amman
  Mariamman
  Māri ,Tulu, also known as Mariamman , both meaning "Mother Mari", spelt also Maariamma , or simply Amman or Aatha is the South Indian Hindu goddess of disease and rain. She is the main South Indian mother goddess, predominant in the rural areas of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and...
  
   Aalayam
• Murugan
  Murugan
  Murugan also called Kartikeya, Skanda and Subrahmanya, is a popular Hindu deity especially among Tamil Hindus, worshipped primarily in areas with Tamil influences, especially South India, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Mauritius and Reunion Island. His six most important shrines in India are the...
  
   Temple
• Sivan
  Shiva
  Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...
  
   Temple
• Sri Amman Temple
• Sri Selva Vinayagar Maha Mariamman Aalayam Vedhanayagapuram.

Infrastructure

Kamakkapalayam has 2 Panchayat Union Elementary Schools and 1 Middle Class School. One Panchayat Union Elementary School at Kamakkapalayam and the other at Nadumedu.Panchayat Union Middle Class School in Vedhanayagapuram. A Primary Health Center is located at this village. The major transportation is the road connection to Thalaivasal

Thalaivasal

Thalaivasal is a village, block headquarter and State Assembly Seat in Salem district, Tamil Nadu - India.-Etymology:In Tamil the word Thalai means Head and Vasal means entrance...

 and Veeraganur

Veeraganur

Veeraganur is a Town Panchayath in Salem district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.-Demographics:As of the 2001 India census, Veeraganur had a population of 10,534. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Veeraganur has an average literacy rate of 59%, lower than the national...

 with buses running every hour.

Notable persons

Tmt. V. Alagammal - member of Thalaivasal

Thalaivasal

Thalaivasal is a village, block headquarter and State Assembly Seat in Salem district, Tamil Nadu - India.-Etymology:In Tamil the word Thalai means Head and Vasal means entrance...

 assembly constitution (93) of the 12th Tamilnadu State general Assembly .

External links

• Block Map
• Salem District - Taluk Information