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Sakkottai, Thanjavur district

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Country
  
India

District
  
Thanjavur

Time zone
  
IST (UTC+5:30)

Population
  
2,889 (2001)

State
  
Tamil Nadu

Taluk
  
Kumbakonam

PIN
  
612401

Area code
  
0435

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Sakkottai is a village in the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India. The village is famous for the Amirthakadeswarar Temple. Popular Indian historian S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar and manimekalai sukumar mudaliyar hailed from Sakkottai

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Map of Sakkottai, Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu

Demographics

According to the 2001 census, Sakkottai had a population of 2,889, of whom 1,437 were males and 1,452 females, 301 of whom were under six years of age. Sakkottai had a sex ratio of 1,010. Sakkottai had a literacy rate of 70.22. The male literacy rate was 79.37 while the female literacy rate was 64.66. The village had a scheduled caste population of 790 and a scheduled tribe population of 4.

Prominent personalities

  • Sakkottai Krishnaswami Aiyangar: Indian historian and Dravidologist.
  • References

    Sakkottai, Thanjavur district Wikipedia