Tamil Nadu Timeline

Dharmapuri

5 events, 1965 to 2012.

  1. 1965

    1. 2 Oct 1965Governance

      Dharmapuri district carved out of Salem

      Dharmapuri became the first district created in the state after independence, split from Salem district.

  2. 1997

    1. 1997Welfare

      Mahalir Thittam extends women's self-help groups statewide

      The state funded Mahalir Thittam to form women's self-help groups in all districts, after an IFAD-assisted pilot in Dharmapuri from 1989.

  3. 2000

    1. 2 Feb 2000Law Justice

      Pleasant Stay verdict and the Dharmapuri bus burning

      Jayalalithaa was sentenced to a year's imprisonment in the Pleasant Stay hotel case; in the violence that followed, three agricultural students were burnt to death in a bus at Dharmapuri.

  4. 2004

    1. 18 Oct 2004Law Justice

      Veerappan killed in Operation Cocoon

      The forest brigand Veerappan was killed by the Tamil Nadu Special Task Force near Dharmapuri, ending a decades-long manhunt.

  5. 2012

    1. 7 Nov 2012Conflict

      Dharmapuri caste violence

      Mobs burned Dalit homes in three villages near Dharmapuri after an inter-caste marriage.