Temple gopuram

Chettinad to Madurai

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February 22nd 2015
Today we must leave our hotel and move on to Madurai. But before leaving Chettinad we are urged to visit two of the Chettinad clan temples. If you are a Chettiar, wherever in the world you are born, you belong to one of nine Chettiar clan temples - a bit like Scottish clans I suppose, though they do not have temples and Indians do not wear kilts ......some of the temples are better endowed than ot ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more