T. Kallupatti is a panchayat town in the Madurai district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

The form is similar to that between a mother and her children, a convention which was a feature of the original Tamil culture for years.

Many people throng to the Agneeswaran Temple of Devankurichi in order to perform the last rites of those who are dead and so it is equated to Kasi.

The early history of the region can be dated back to the fifth century A.D. T.Kallupatti and Chinnakattalai are among the few places in South India with Iron Age historical remains of copper and gold.

Due to its proximity to the Western Ghats, the town has a cooler average temperature than that of the city of Madurai and other eastern areas.

MicroFinance and illegal money lending are uncommon in the Block as there are 15 Agriculture Cooperative Banks.

There are 88 Child Welfare Centres with most of them concentrated in the town of T.Kallupatti and these are well connected by village roads.

[9] Town Panchayat community center There are many private hospitals at Kallupatti along with a Government primary health centre.

[10] At T. Kallupatti, 35 street lights, seven sodium vapour lamps at a bus stand, and a motor pumpset of 7.5 horsepower used for an overhead tank are powered by a biomass gasifier unit.

The bus stand and a nearby park are lit up round the clock, even in times of load shedding.

The unit is fuelled completely by Julia Flora, a plant known as Seemakaruvellai (Thorny tree).

Self-help groups supply the wood, which is dried in the sun for 10 days and then chopped into pieces.

These textile mills arose because of the extremely rich black soil deposits in and around Kallupatti, which favours cotton cultivation in large volumes.

Now the festival involves a fight between groups dressed in typical, traditional Tamil garb, which includes the Silambu.

[17][18] Notable locations within this historical place include Eazhoor (seven villages); the Muthalamman Temple; the Devankurichi Temple; the Gandhi Niketan Ashram; the Rural Extension Training Centre (RETC) and the District Institutions of Education and Training (called the teacher-training school),[19] along with government hospitals, etc.

[23] Gandhi Niketan Ashram, is the brain-child of Freedom fighter G. Venkatachalapathy ("The Architect of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Movement in Tamil Nadu") and was started in 1940 to help create an independent India and reconstruct the type of rural India envisioned by Mohandas K. Gandhi.

After India attained independence in 1947, the Gandhi Niketan Ashram was involved in areas like community development, panchayati raj, and khadi and village industries.

The Ashram also played a key role in the Bhoodan movement spearheaded by Acharya Vinoba Bhave.

Martin Luther King Jr., the American Nobel Peace Prize laureate and civil rights movement leader, visited the founder of the Madras twice and obtained a first-hand account of the experiences of Venkatachalapathy in organizing Satyagraha and constructive programmes.

[citation needed] E. F. Schumacher, one of the founders of the Green Movement in the west and renowned author of the book Small is Beautiful visited the Ashram in 1962 and obtained valuable insights into the areas of appropriate technology for the benefit of the rural poor.

[citation needed] An ambitious programme to introduce computer-aided learning and interactive curriculum support in 1,000 rural schools in the country was launched here in 2008.

The e-learning/digital content programme was launched by former President A P J Abdul Kalam at the Gandhi Niketan Ashram School.

From 1991 to 1996, R. Muthiah was the Former Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker while part of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK).