Agastheeswaram is a prominent town, revenue village, and the administrative headquarters of the Agastheeswaram Taluk in the Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu. Positioned at the extreme southern tip of the Indian subcontinent, it is culturally and historically inseparable from the greater Kanyakumari coastal matrix.
​Its history is deeply intertwined with ancient Tamil Sangam geography, Vedic mythology, and the distinctive borderland politics of the old Travancore Kingdom.