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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Administrative division in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}<br /> {{Use Indian English|date=August 2020}}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Agasteeswaram taluk&#039;&#039;&#039; is a [[taluk]] located in [[Kanyakumari district]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]. The headquarters of the taluk is the town of [[Nagercoil]]. The taluk was among several in [[Thiruvananthapuram district]] that with the passage of the [[States Reorganisation Act, 1956|States Reorganisation Act of 1956]] were transferred from Thiruvananthapuram district, [[Travancore-Cochin State]] to the newly created [[Kanyakumari]] district of [[Madras State]] (the latter later renamed as [[Tamil Nadu]] State).<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> <br /> === Boundary ===<br /> The taluk was part of the [[Princely state]] [[Travancore Kingdom]]; the latter which subsequently became part of the then Travancore-Cochin State. Part of The States Reorganisation Act of 1956 aligned state boundaries on linguistic affiliations. Thovalai, [[Kalkulam taluk|Kalkulam]], [[Vilavancode taluk|Vilavancode]], and Agastheeswaram taluks were transferred from Thiruvananthapuram District of the Travancore-Cochin State to Kanyakumari district, Madras State. Madras was later renamed as Tamil Nadu).<br /> <br /> ==Demographics==<br /> According to the 2011 census, the taluk had a population of 550,283 with 271,936 males and 278,347 females. There were 1024 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 85.63%. Child population in the age group below 6 was 24,950 males and 24,164 females.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web|title=Provisional Population Totals - Tamil Nadu-Census 2011 |url=http://www.census.tn.nic.in/census2011data/PPT_taluk_data_final.pdf |publisher=Census Tamil Nadu |accessdate=4 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617095215/http://www.census.tn.nic.in/census2011data/PPT_taluk_data_final.pdf |archivedate=17 June 2013 }}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> &lt;References/&gt;<br /> <br /> {{coord|8|06|03|N|77|31|15|E|region:IN|display=title}}<br /> {{District of Kanyakumari}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Taluks of Kanyakumari district]]</div>

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