Nagercoil is a city and a district in Kanyakumari region in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the southernmost city in South India, arranged near the tip of the Indian promontory. The town is additionally the managerial home office of Kanyakumari District. It was a piece of Kerala, the recent Travancore state, work practically a decade after India's Independence from Britain in 1947. In 1956, it was consolidated with Tamil Nadu. In its prior days, the town and its surroundings were known as Nanjilnadu.
Nagercoil determined its name from a celebrated old Jain sanctuary called Naga Raja (sanctuary of the serpent lord) which still exists in the focal a piece of the town. Nagercoil went under the principle of different kingdoms, quite the Chera, Chola and Pandya kingdoms at different purposes of time; chronicled records uncover that these kingdoms battled over the control of the rich region of Nanjilnadu and Kottar (a town said in old Tamil compositions and maps of old India). Archeological records likewise indicate Jain impacts in old times.
Nagercoil determined its name from a celebrated old Jain sanctuary called Naga Raja (sanctuary of the serpent lord) which still exists in the focal a piece of the town. Nagercoil went under the principle of different kingdoms, quite the Chera, Chola and Pandya kingdoms at different purposes of time; chronicled records uncover that these kingdoms battled over the control of the rich region of Nanjilnadu and Kottar (a town said in old Tamil compositions and maps of old India). Archeological records likewise indicate Jain impacts in old times.
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