{"id":117767,"date":"2021-07-14T11:18:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T11:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=117767"},"modified":"2021-07-14T11:18:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T11:18:42","slug":"kongu-nadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/kongu-nadu\/","title":{"rendered":"Kongu Nadu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Recently Kongu Nadu was in news. From where it relates to?<\/strong><br>(a) Tamil Nadu<br>(b) Kerala<br>(c) Andhra Pradesh<br>(d) Telangana<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><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 part of western Tamil Nadu.<\/li><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><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. The name derives from Kongu Vellala Gounder, an OBC community with a significant presence in these districts.<\/li><li>The region includes prominent businesses and industrial hubs at Namakkal, Salem, Tirupur and Coimbatore. It has also been considered an AIADMK stronghold in the recent past, and is also where the BJP\u2019s limited influence in the state is concentrated.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BY: AMIT GUPTA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/kongu-nadu-a-region-not-formally-defined-yet-the-subject-of-a-bifurcation-debate-in-tamil-nad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/kongu-nadu-a-region-not-formally-defined-yet-the-subject-of-a-bifurcation-debate-in-tamil-nad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently Kongu Nadu was in news. From where it relates to?(a) Tamil Nadu(b) Kerala(c) Andhra Pradesh(d) TelanganaAnswer: (a)Related Facts: \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 part of western Tamil Nadu. In Tamil literature, it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":117768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-117767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117769,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117767\/revisions\/117769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}