Alamarathupatti
Alamarathupatti is the name of a village 4 km from Thiruthangal and 6 km from Sivakasi in Virudunagar District, Tamil Nadu. Alamarathupatti is surrounded by other villages like Sengamalapatti, Naranapuram, Chellaiyanaiyakanpatti and towns Thiruthangal and Sivakasi.
Alamarathupatti | |
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village | |
  Alamarathupatti Location in Tamil Nadu, India  Alamarathupatti Alamarathupatti (India) | |
| Coordinates: 9.473709°N 77.839175°E | |
| Country |  |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| District | Virudhunagar |
| Government | |
| • Panchayat President | Mr.P. Mahalingam |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Tamil |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 626130 |
| Telephone code | 91 4562 |
| Vehicle registration | TN 67 |
The village has a Krishna temple and Kali temple, and one Sacred Fig (Arasa Maram): it is a very old tree though the age is not yet estimated. The main village festival is celebrated by the people very enthusiastically around April. During this time temple deities Narayana and Nachiyar are brought in a Pallaku (Tamil) from Thiruthangal for a day's pooja here and another day in the nearby village of Naranapuram. The Pallaku is carried by the villagers all the way from Thiruthangal to the village. This village also has a temple for Ganesh, or "Mukku Pillayar Kovil" in Tamil, at the entrance of the village. Traditionally, the people would go here to pray for a good start when setting out on new ventures or actions.
Notes: There is another Alamarathupatti, a village of Kolathur block in Salem district.
Notable persons
Nagamma Naidu's family was first settled and developed this village and had a lot of land; they donated to all people of the village. Janarthanan, Sankarappan, and Chinnayan were from this village and they actively worked for a social, harmonised and humanitarian centric society. J. Balagangadharan, the former member of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, is from this village. During freedom movement the whole village participated. This village was declared as a gramdhan village and the villagers contributed free land to landless peasants as Shri Vinoba Bave's sarvodya movement requested. The noted freedom fighters G. Ramachandran, G. Alavandar, V. Srinivasan, S. R. Ramaswamy and G. Ramachandran spent more than 2 years at Bellari Jail. On 15 August 1947, the whole village celebrated Indian Independence by hoisting the tri-color flag on top of the sacred fig tree.