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The east coast of Tamil Nadu was one of the areas affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, during which almost 8000 people died in the disaster. [112] The sixth most populous state in the Indian Union, Tamil Nadu was the seventh-largest economy in 2005 among the states of India. [113]
The MLA Hostel is located on Wallajah Road. Rajaji Hall in the same campus, which was built between 1800 and 1802, [ 79 ] used to have a role in state administration. At present, it houses the offices of the Tamil Nadu State Raffle.
MLA before election Party before election Elected MLA Party after election 219 18 March 2012 Sankarankoil: C. Karuppasamy: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam: V. M. Rajalakshmi: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam: 180 12 June 2012 Sankarankoil: S. P. Muthukumaran: Communist Party of India: V. R. Karthik Thondaiman
M. Abdul Lathief. M. Abdul Lathief, (birth1.7.1936 died 17 December 2001) was an Indian who had been chairman of Tamil Nadu Wakf Board and a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Tamil Nadu.He was a former leader of Indian union Muslim league and later he resigned from it.
The following is a chronological overview of the history of the Tamil people, who trace their ancestry to the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Indian union territory of Puducherry, the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka and the Puttalam District of Sri Lanka. [1] [2]
The Madras Record Office, currently known as Tamil Nadu Archives (TNA), is located in Chennai and is one of the oldest and largest document repositories in Southern India. Documents stored and archived in TNA are invaluable to researchers working on post-independence Tamil Nadu or British-era Madras Presidency.
The history of local bodies in Tamil Nadu dates back to the Ancient period wherein the village administration was taken care by a Village assembly known as Sabai (Tamil: சபை) in every village. Further, each village was divided into several wards known as mandalams ( Tamil : மண்டலம் ). [ 4 ]
The Vanniyars are Tamil Nadu's second-largest community, after the scheduled caste. [7] They mostly work as agricultural labourers and are concentrated in the northern Tamil Nadu towns of Cuddalore, Vellore , Tiruvallur , Ranipet , Chengalpet , Villupuram and Kancheepuram where they make up a sizable vote bank. [ 8 ]