Palani taluk is a taluk of Dindigul district

Dindigul District

Dindigul District is an administrative region in the south of Tamil Nadu, India. The district was carved out of Madurai District in the year 1985...

 of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu

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...

. The headquarters of the taluk is the town of Palani

Palani

Palani is a city and a municipality in the Dindigul district of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located about 100 km South of Coimbatore City and 60 km west of Dindigul...

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Population

According to the 2001 census, the taluk of Palani had a population of 266,000 with 133,822 males and 132,178 females. There were 988 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 69.86. The total number of households was 67,005.