Sakkottai is a village in the Kumbakonam

Kumbakonam

Kumbakonam , also spelt as Coombaconum in the records of British India , is a town and a special grade municipality in the Thanjavur district in the southeast Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Located 40 kilometres from Thanjavur and 272 kilometres from Chennai, it is the headquarters of the Kumbakonam...

 taluk of Thanjavur district

Thanjavur District

Thanjavur District is one of the 32 districts of the state of Tamil Nadu, in southeastern India. Its headquarters is Thanjavur.-Geography:...

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

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India

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Demographics

According to the 2001 census, Sakkottai had a population of 2,889, of whom 1,437 were males and 1,452 females, 301 of whom were under six years of age. Sakkottai had a sex ratio of 1,010. Sakkottai had a literacy rate of 70.22. The male literacy rate was 79.37 while the female literacy rate was 64.66. The village had a scheduled caste population of 790 and a scheduled tribe population of 4.

Prominent personalities

• Sakkottai Krishnaswami Aiyangar: Indian historian and Dravidologist.