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The total number of Tamil Hindus as per 2011 Indian census is 63,188,168 [2] which forms 87.58% of the total population of Tamil Nadu. Hinduism is the largest religion in Tamil Nadu. The religious history of Tamil Nadu is influenced by Hinduism quite notably during the medieval period.
As of 2011, Sikhs numbered 14,601 (0.02%) in the total population of Tamil Nadu. [1] Majority of the Sikhs are people who migrated to Tamil Nadu for agricultural and business purposes. [109] Sikhs have settled in most major cities and have established various Gurudwaras and educational institutions in the state. [110]
Tamil Hindus (Tamil: தமிழ் இந்துக்கள்) are the Tamil-speaking people who follow Hinduism. Hinduism was the first religion to reach the ancient Tamil kingdoms. Tamil Nadu is home to one of the largest functioning Hindu temples in the world.
There are 3,961 villages that have a population of 10,000 persons or more. [9] India's 27.8 percent urban population lives in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations. [10] In the decade of 1991–2001, migration to major cities caused rapid increase in urban population.
Districts of Madras in 1956 with 2009 boundaries in gray. During the British Raj, the Madras Presidency was made up of 26 districts, 12 of which were part of the boundaries of the present-day Tamil Nadu, namely, Chingleput, Coimbatore, Nilgiris, North Arcot, Madras, Madura, Ramnad, Salem, South Arcot, Tanjore, Tinnevely, and Trichinopoly.
The Hindu population has tripled from 303,675,084 in 1951 to 966,257,353 in 2011, but the Hindu percentage share of total population has declined from 84.1% in 1951 to 79.8% in 2011. [19] [20] [21] When India achieved independence in 1947, Hindus formed roughly 85% of the total population and pre-Partition British India had about 73% of Hindus ...
On 26 June 2024, the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly unanimously adopted a resolution urging the union government to immediately commence census work along with a caste based population census, however the Chief Minister M.K. Stalin declined to conduct a Bihar style caste survey, as any changes made to reservation based on a survey by the state ...
Vivek Ramaswamy, candidate in the USA 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries [29] Sivananda Saraswati, Indian yoga guru, Hindu spiritual teacher, and proponent of Vedanta [30] C. S. Seshadri, mathematician. [31] T.N.Seshan, Chief Election Commissioner; Tolkappiyar, earliest known author and grammarian in Tamil language [32]