Agriculture
The mainstay for people in the rural areas, more than agriculture, are industries such as weaving, beedi and match-stick rolling. The Indian Army has a number of recruits from the Thiruvannamalai district.
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“But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.”
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