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'''Tanjore''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V23_231.gif Tanjore District] in [[Madras (Presidency)|Madras]] during the British period.
The Tanjore station is on the [[South Indian Railway]] [[Rail_gauge#Metre_Gauge|metre gauge (MG)]] '[[Madras-Tuticorin Mainline]]' and a junction with the '[[Nagore Branch Line]]' to [[Negapatam]] and [[Nagore]] on the coast, 53 miles(84km) . There is also the '[[Pulliarpati Quarry Branch Line]]', 4½ miles(7km) from Tanjore to the Pulliarpet Quarry.
== History ==
Modern name:Thanjavur<br>
Variants:Tanjore/Tanjavur<br>
== FIBIS resources ==
[[:Category:Tanjore images|Images of Tanjore]]
== External links ==
[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V23_248.gif Tanjore City] Imperial Gazetteer<br>
[http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/SUS_TAV/TANJORE.html Tanjore] online 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica<br>
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/tanjoremahratta00hickgoog ''The Tanjore Mahratta Principality in Southern India : the Land of the Chola, the Eden of the South''] by William Hickey, Pleader, Madras Presidency 2nd edition 1874 First published c 1872. Archive.org
*''Madras District Gazetteers: Tanjore'' by F R Hemingway [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/13345 1906 edition], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/1428 1915 edition] Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924050004849 ''Schwartz of Tanjore''] by Jesse Page 1921. Published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) Archive.org. Christian Frederick Schwartz (1726–1798) was a German Lutheran Protestant missionary to India.
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