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Bharathidasan University established in Tiruchirappalli

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The state government established Bharathidasan University at Tiruchirappalli, named after the Tamil poet Bharathidasan.

Bharathidasan University was established in 1982 as a public state university at Tiruchirappalli, with its campus at Palkalaiperur. It was named after the Tamil poet Bharathidasan. It was one of several state universities set up in Tamil Nadu in the 1980s, alongside Bharathiar University in Coimbatore, established the same year.

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