Tirupattur

Tirupattur is a town located in Vellore District, India, which is one of the oldest towns in tamilnadu. It is located approximately 40km from Krishnagiri and 85km from Hosur. This is the second biggest and densely populated in vellore district. The town has mainly small-scale industries and mills. Some people might describe Tirupattur as a satellite town, in which people reside and go to work in nearby industrial towns such as Vaniyambadi and Ambur in the north, but it is an important commercial center from time immemorial (whereas Vaniyambadi and Ambur, which were once smaller towns, have recently flourished). It was a revenue subdivision during British raj and remains so. It has Old Shiva, Vishnu temples and Tanks[Big Tank & Small Tank] built during the Hoysala Dyanasty. It is well connected by road and rail to other important cities of Tamil Nadu such as Chennai, Salem and Vellore and to Bangalore in Karnataka. This town is also famous in Islamic religious circles as many great saints "Awliyas" had made it their home town. Some of them are buried at various places in the town, including Hazrath Syed Sha Mohammed alias Syed Khawja Meeran Hussaini Jaffari, Hazrath Syed ShaAmeenuddin Hussaini Chisty ur Kahdri (who is better known as Munshi Hazrath); he was the last among a series of saints who have lived and have been buried at Tirupattur.
The name Tirupattur means a group of ten villages/small towns. There exists a village called Aathiyur (Aathi means Begin) in the southern fringes of the Town and Kodiyur (Kodi means End) in the northern fringes of the town. It is surrounded by several of these villages, making Tirupattur a Taluk. Tirupattur's population and land area are good enough to have political representations in the state legislature of Tamil Nadu (Member of the Legislative Assembly), and part of Thiruvannamalai constituency for the central/federal legislature of India (Member of Parliament as of 2009 elections).

As of 2011 India census, Tirupathur had a population of 108,531. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Tirupathur has an average literacy rate of 78%, significantly higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 80%, and female literacy is 76%. In Tirupathur, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.