Sundaranachiapuram | |
Native Name Lang: | Tamil |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | India Tamil Nadu#India |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Tamil Nadu, India |
Coordinates: | 9.45°N 77.55°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | India |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Tamil Nadu |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Virudhunagar |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Demographics Type1: | Languages |
Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
Demographics1 Info1: | Tamil |
Timezone1: | IST |
Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
Postal Code Type: | PIN |
Postal Code: | 626142 |
Area Code Type: | Telephone code |
Area Code: | 04563 |
Registration Plate: | OLD-TN-67 New- TN-84 |
Blank1 Name Sec1: | Nearest city |
Blank1 Info Sec1: | Rajapalayam |
Blank2 Name Sec1: | Literacy |
Blank2 Info Sec1: | 65% |
Blank3 Name Sec1: | Lok Sabha constituency |
Blank3 Info Sec1: | Tenkasi |
Blank1 Name Sec2: | Climate |
Blank1 Info Sec2: | hot (Köppen) |
Blank2 Name Sec2: | Avg. summer temperature |
Blank2 Info Sec2: | 39°C |
Blank3 Name Sec2: | Avg. winter temperature |
Blank3 Info Sec2: | 25°C |
Sundaranachiyapuram is a village located nearby Rajapalayam, in Virudhunagar district, Tamil Nadu, India. It is a small village, with around 1300 families.
Sundaranachiapuram was born in 1888 from sundar raja puram, It is named for the Hindu god Sundaranachiamman. The Sundaranachiamman temple is 2 km.
In the nineteenth century it was under the control of Seithur Zamindhar who oppressed the people of Sundaranachiapuram and filed a case against them. Some heads of the village sought the help of the Jesuit missionary Father J. B. Trincal who was stationed at W. Pudupatti. The villagers agreed to embrace Christianity provided that they were freed from the seithur zamindhar. In 1888, 12 July he sav the unlettered victims and won the case. As a result, the whole village became Christian, but Sundar Raja puram people remain the same with Seithur Zamindhar.
Agriculture is the main occupation of the people. Crops include coconut, paddy rice, mango, sugarcane, cotton, millet, roots and tuber crops, maize, cucumber, pumpkin and various vegetables.
Most of the irrigation is done in traditional ways. Water sources are mostly wells and in some cases surface water being pumped into the farmlands.
There are also masons (kothanar), embroidery, and brickmakers (sengal soolai).
Two schools were established 150 years ago by Roman Catholic priests:
The village has two temples and a church:
Sundaranachiamman temple
The climate of the region is semi-arid tropical monsoon type. Temperatures range from 25 °C to 37 °C. The area has a high mean temperature and low humidity. April, May and June are the hottest months of the year. The southwest monsoon which begins in June and lasts till August brings scanty rain; the bulk of the rainfall is received during the northeast monsoon in October and November.