Erode

Erode stands on the southern bank of the Kaveri in the Kongu country of southern India. The nearby Bhavani River joins the Kaveri upstream, and the rivers connect the town with the wider inland plain. Erode was held by Mysore in the eighteenth century, when the struggles of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan against the British brought repeated changes to the region. After the defeat of Tipu in 1799, Kongu came under the East India Company.