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Tanjore District (Madras Presidency)
Tanjore district
was one of the districts in the erstwhile
Madras Presidency
of
British India
. It covered the area of the present-day districts of
Thanjavur
,
Tiruvarur
and
Nagapattinam
and the
Aranthangi taluk
of
Pudukkottai district
in Tamil Nadu. Apart from being a bedrock of
Brahminism
, Tanjore was a centre of
Chola
cultural heritage and one of the richest and most prosperous districts in Madras Presidency.
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