Question

In 2017, this state enacted an emergency order to permit a festival event in which people compete to slow a bull by hanging from its hump. The western part of this state may actually be the fourth-biggest asteroid crater in the world. This is the largest state that contains Auroville, an experimental community based around the Matrimandir (15[1])(MAH-tri-MUHN-”deer”), a giant gold sphere. This state contains the southernmost part of the Coromandel coast and the Eastern (-5[1])(*) Ghats, and it (-5[1])surrounds the union territory of (10[1])Puducherry. This state's Rameswaram (RAH-”mace”-wuh-ruhm) (10[1])Island is the northern terminus of Adam's Bridge. Many centers of bharatanatyam (BUH-rut-NAHT-yum) performance are based in this state's capital of Chennai. For 10 points, the (10[1])major ethnic group of which southeasternmost Indian state is also the largest minority group in Sri Lanka? ■END■

ANSWER: Tamil Nadu (The asteroid crater is the Kaveri Crater.)
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