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Tuticorin - Thoothukudi - S.India
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Tuticorin is one of the Port city in south India about 540 kms south west of Madras(Chennai). Located in the Gulf of Mannar with Sri Lanka on the South East and the large land mass of India on the West.The major harbour of Tuticorin is well known as pearl diving and fishing centre
Tuticorin was founded c.1540 by the Portuguese, captured by the Dutch in 1658, and ceded to the British in 1825.(Courtesy - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001)
Tuticorin became the citadel of the freedom struggle in the early 20th Century.In 1906, the great freedom fighter of India, V.O.Chidambaram Pillai launched the first Swadeshi ship "S.S. Gaelia" in British India.The post independence era in India witnessed planned and rapid economic development in all spheres.Then the minor port of Tuticorin had a flourishing trade handling a variety of cargoes meant for the neighbouring countries of Sri Lanka, Maldives etc., and the coastal regions of India.
