Dindigul

Dindigul is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of the Dindigul district, in the southwest of the state. It is an ancient settlement that was ruled at different times by the Cheras, the early Pandyas, the Cholas, the Pallava dynasty, the later Pandyas, the Madurai Sultanate, the Vijayanagara Empire, the Madurai Nayaks, the Kingdom of Mysore, Chanda Sahib and the British. The Dindigul Fort is its best-known monument. The municipality was upgraded to a city corporation in February 2014. Industries include lock making, leather tanning and textile spinning. The city covers 14.01 square kilometres, stands at an average elevation of 265 metres, and had a population of 207,327 at the 2011 census.