{"id":118649,"date":"2021-07-14T20:13:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T14:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=118649"},"modified":"2021-07-15T19:10:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T13:40:57","slug":"what-is-kongu-nadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-kongu-nadu\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Kongu nadu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/kongu-nadu-a-region-not-formally-defined-yet-the-subject-of-a-bifurcation-debate-in-tamil-nadu-7401673\/\">Indian Express<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the news?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>A list of new Union Cabinet ministers issued in Tamil Nadu has triggered a debate in political circles, by referring to \u2018Kongu Nadu\u2019, the informal name for a region in the western part of the state.<\/p>\n<h5><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118677 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kongu.jpg?resize=332%2C374&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kongu Nadu - ForumIAS\" width=\"332\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kongu.jpg?w=332&amp;ssl=1 332w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kongu.jpg?resize=266%2C300&amp;ssl=1 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><strong>Kongu Nadu<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Kongu Nadu\u2019 is neither a place with a PIN code nor a name given formally to any region. It is a commonly used name for <strong>part of western Tamil Nadu<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In Tamil literature, it was referred to as one of the five regions of ancient Tamil Nadu. There were mentions of \u2018Kongu Nadu\u2019 in Sangam literature as a separate territory.<\/li>\n<li>In the present state of Tamil Nadu, the term is informally used to refer to a region that includes the districts of Nilgiris, Coimbatore, Tirupur, Erode, Karur, Namakkal and Salem, as well as Oddanchatram and Vedasandur in Dindgul district, and Pappireddipatti in Dharmapuri district.<\/li>\n<li>The name derives from <strong>Kongu Vellala Gounder<\/strong>, an OBC community with a significant presence in these districts.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike Telangana or Uttarakhand, there has never been a demand or discussions about a separate Kongu Nadu in the modern political history of Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Indian Express What is the news? A list of new Union Cabinet ministers issued in Tamil Nadu has triggered a debate in political circles, by referring to \u2018Kongu Nadu\u2019, the informal name for a region in the western part of the state. Kongu Nadu \u2018Kongu Nadu\u2019 is neither a place with a PIN code&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-kongu-nadu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is Kongu nadu?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[8414,1888],"class_list":["post-118649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-kongu-nadu","tag-tamil-nadu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}