Ulagampatti
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Ulagampatti http://www.ulagampatty.com is one of the villages of Nagarathars
, situated in Tiruppattur
Taluk of Sivaganga District
, Tamil Nadu
State, India
.
Pin code: 630410 http://www.indiapost.gov.in/Pin/pinsearch.aspx?Pin_On=630410.
Ulagampatti village has all the important facilities like bank (Indian Bank
http://www.indian-bank.com/BranchAdd_Detail.asp?ibga=U028), Post office http://www.indiapost.gov.in/Pin/pinsearch.aspx?Pin_On=630410, Police Station http://tnpolice.gov.in/station_details.php?stype=LS&code=2960913&desc=ULAGAMPATTI, Fire Service
Station, important old Siva and Murugan Temple (Ulaganatha Swami Temple and Murugan Gnaniyar Madam) and Elementary School
schools http://www.schools.tn.nic.in/DispSchools.asp?DCODE=23&BCODE=0002&VTCODE=01314000&SCHCAT=01, etc.
About Nagarathar
Nagarathar business people
are Hindus, predominantly originating in the Chettinad region of Tamil Nadu
. They have been trading with Southeast Asia
since the heyday of the Chola empire
, but in the 19th Century they migrated to countries throughout Southeast Asia. (See Tamil diaspora
)
Nagarathar
s, (also known as Chettiar
s), were an important trading class of 19th and 20th century South East Asia and spread to Sri Lanka
, Myanmar, Malayasia, Singapore
, Java, Sumatra, and Ho Chi Minh City
. Changing political and economic situations since that time have caused many of these communities to disappear as their members returned to India or sought other, more hospitable homes.
Chettiars were traditionally involved in occupations like moneylending and wholesale trading. Banks established by Chettiars include the now defunct Bank of Chettinad
, and the now ICICI merged Bank of Madura
i founded by Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar
(an Architect par excellence, Textile Don, highly principled Educationist and Philanthropher), Indian Overseas Bank founded by Shri. M. Ct. M. Chidambaram Chettiar, and Indian Bank founded by Raja Annamalai Chettiar
. Nagarathars are known for their philanthropy; building temples, and schools and maintaining them throughout Asia.
Location:
Ulagampatti in Google Maps
Distance From Ulagampatti to important places are:
Ponnamaravathi
= 8 Kilometers, Tiruppattur
= 32 Kilometers, Pudukkottai
= 45 Kilometers
Karaikudi
= 51 Kilometers, Dindigul
= 77 Kilometers, Madurai
= 80 Kilometers
Tiruchirappalli= 83 Kilometers, Thanjavur= 109 Kilometers, Palani
= 128 Kilometers
Rameshwaram= 187 Kilometers, Coimbatore
= 232 Kilometers, Kanyakumari
= 324 Kilometers
Bangalore
= 388 Kilometers, Chennai
= 431 Kilometers
Nagarathar
The Nagarathars is a Chettiar community in Shaivism that originated in Kaveripoompattinam under the Chola kingdom of India. They are a prominent mercantile Vaishya, caste in Tamil Nadu, South India...
, situated in Tiruppattur
Tiruppattur
Tirupattur is a town located in Vellore District, India, which is one of the oldest towns in Tamilnadu. It is located approximately 40km from Krishnagiri and 85km from Hosur. This is the second biggest and densely populated town in Vellore district. The town has mainly small-scale industries and...
Taluk of Sivaganga District
Sivaganga District
Sivaganga District is an administrative district of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The city of Sivaganga is the district headquarters. It is bounded by Pudukkottai district on the Northeast, Tiruchirapalli district on the North, Ramanathapuram district on South East, Virudhunagar district...
, 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...
State, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
.
Pin code: 630410 http://www.indiapost.gov.in/Pin/pinsearch.aspx?Pin_On=630410.
Ulagampatti village has all the important facilities like bank (Indian Bank
Indian Bank
Indian Bank is a major Indian Commercial Bank headquartered in Chennai , India. It has 22,000 employees, 1923 branches and is one of the big public sector banks of India. It has overseas branches in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and 229 correspondent banks in 69 countries...
http://www.indian-bank.com/BranchAdd_Detail.asp?ibga=U028), Post office http://www.indiapost.gov.in/Pin/pinsearch.aspx?Pin_On=630410, Police Station http://tnpolice.gov.in/station_details.php?stype=LS&code=2960913&desc=ULAGAMPATTI, Fire Service
Firefighter
Firefighters are rescuers extensively trained primarily to put out hazardous fires that threaten civilian populations and property, to rescue people from car incidents, collapsed and burning buildings and other such situations...
Station, important old Siva and Murugan Temple (Ulaganatha Swami Temple and Murugan Gnaniyar Madam) and Elementary School
Primary education
A primary school is an institution in which children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as primary or elementary education. Primary school is the preferred term in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth Nations, and in most publications of the United Nations Educational,...
schools http://www.schools.tn.nic.in/DispSchools.asp?DCODE=23&BCODE=0002&VTCODE=01314000&SCHCAT=01, etc.
About Nagarathar
Nagarathar business people
Businessperson
A businessperson is someone involved in a particular undertaking of activities for the purpose of generating revenue from a combination of human, financial, or physical capital. An entrepreneur is an example of a business person...
are Hindus, predominantly originating in the Chettinad region 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...
. They have been trading with Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, South-East Asia, South East Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. The region lies on the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic...
since the heyday of the Chola empire
Chola Dynasty
The Chola dynasty was a Tamil dynasty which was one of the longest-ruling in some parts of southern India. The earliest datable references to this Tamil dynasty are in inscriptions from the 3rd century BC left by Asoka, of Maurya Empire; the dynasty continued to govern over varying territory until...
, but in the 19th Century they migrated to countries throughout Southeast Asia. (See Tamil diaspora
Tamil diaspora
The Tamil diaspora is a demographic group of Tamil people of Indian or Sri Lankan origin who have settled in other parts of the world. Significant Tamil diaspora populations can be found in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Middle East, Réunion, South Africa, Mauritius, Seychelles, Fiji, Guyana,...
)
Nagarathar
Nagarathar
The Nagarathars is a Chettiar community in Shaivism that originated in Kaveripoompattinam under the Chola kingdom of India. They are a prominent mercantile Vaishya, caste in Tamil Nadu, South India...
s, (also known as Chettiar
Chettiar
Chettiar , also spelled Chetty, is a title used by various castes in South India especially in Tamil Nadu. In Kannada, it appears as Setty, Shettar and Shettigar, who are Padmashalis in Andhra Pradesh....
s), were an important trading class of 19th and 20th century South East Asia and spread to Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
, Myanmar, Malayasia, Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, Java, Sumatra, and Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam...
. Changing political and economic situations since that time have caused many of these communities to disappear as their members returned to India or sought other, more hospitable homes.
Chettiars were traditionally involved in occupations like moneylending and wholesale trading. Banks established by Chettiars include the now defunct Bank of Chettinad
Bank of Chettinad
Bank of Chettinad is a defunct bank that originated in the Nattukottai Chettiar community.*1929: Two prominent Nattukottai Chettiar business family partnerships established the bank with its Head Office in Rangoon and registered it as a private company in India and incorporated under the Indian...
, and the now ICICI merged Bank of Madura
Bank of Madura
Bank of Madura was established in 1943 by Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar. It acquired Chettinad Mercantile Bank and Illanji Bank in the 1960s. Bank of Madura was a Chettiar bank with a large customer base of 2 million plus customers and a network of more than 280 branches and 40+ ATMs centres...
i founded by Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar
Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar
Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar , was an Indian independence activist, industrialist and the founder of Thiagarajar College of Engineering.Chettiar was born in 1893 to Muthukaruppan Chettiar and Vinaitherthal achi was born in Sivagangai District, Tamil Nadu. He was the tenth and last child in his...
(an Architect par excellence, Textile Don, highly principled Educationist and Philanthropher), Indian Overseas Bank founded by Shri. M. Ct. M. Chidambaram Chettiar, and Indian Bank founded by Raja Annamalai Chettiar
Raja Annamalai Chettiar
Raja Sir Satappa Ramanatha Muttaiya Annamalai Chettiar KCSI , also known as S. Rm. M. Annamalai Chettiar, was an Indian industrialist, banker, educationist and philanthropist, who is largely remembered for his social work and endowments in Tamil Nadu...
. Nagarathars are known for their philanthropy; building temples, and schools and maintaining them throughout Asia.
Location:
Ulagampatti in Google Maps
Distance From Ulagampatti to important places are:
Ponnamaravathi
Ponnamaravathi
Ponnamaravathi பொன்னமராவதி) is a Taluk in Pudukkottai district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.-History:Ponnamaravathy, is named after King Ponnar and his brother Amarar , who were kings of Ponnamaravathy area. They came from Sevalur, which belongs to the Veera Maravar caste, to save the people...
= 8 Kilometers, Tiruppattur
Tiruppattur
Tirupattur is a town located in Vellore District, India, which is one of the oldest towns in Tamilnadu. It is located approximately 40km from Krishnagiri and 85km from Hosur. This is the second biggest and densely populated town in Vellore district. The town has mainly small-scale industries and...
= 32 Kilometers, Pudukkottai
Pudukkottai
Pudukkottai is a town and a municipality in Pudukkottai district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Pudukkottai District was carved out of Tiruchirappalli and Thanjavur districts in January 1974.It is the administrative headquarters of Pudukkottai District....
= 45 Kilometers
Karaikudi
Karaikudi
Karaikudi is a town in Sivaganga District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.Chettinad literally 'Chetti land' in Tamil, is a collection of 76 villages/towns. Chettinad stretched from Ramnad District and Pudukottai State of 'British' India. The Chettiars, or more properly the Nattukottai...
= 51 Kilometers, Dindigul
Dindigul
Dindigul is a town and municipality in the Tamil Nadu state of southern India. The name Dindigul comes from the Portmanteau of “Thindu” meaning pillow and “kal” meaning Rock and refers to the bare hill dominating the city’s both land and skyscape...
= 77 Kilometers, Madurai
Madurai
Madurai is the third largest city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It served as the capital city of the Pandyan Kingdom. It is the administrative headquarters of Madurai District and is famous for its temples built by Pandyan and...
= 80 Kilometers
Tiruchirappalli= 83 Kilometers, Thanjavur= 109 Kilometers, Palani
Palani
Palani is a city and a municipality in the Dindigul district of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located about 100 km South of Coimbatore City and 60 km west of Dindigul...
= 128 Kilometers
Rameshwaram= 187 Kilometers, Coimbatore
Coimbatore
Coimbatore , also known as Kovai , is the second largest city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a major commercial centre in Tamil Nadu and is known as the "Manchester of South India"....
= 232 Kilometers, Kanyakumari
Kanyakumari
Kanyakumari is a town in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. It is also sometimes referred to as Cape Comorin. Located at the southernmost tip of the Indian Peninsula, it is the geographical end of the Indian mainland. The district in Tamil Nadu where the town is located is called Kanyakumari...
= 324 Kilometers
Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
= 388 Kilometers, Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
= 431 Kilometers
Resources
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nattukottai_Nagarathar
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariviyur_Nagarathar