Adilabad
City
Adilabad district
Telangana
117,167 in 2011
Special grade municipality, 48 wards; district headquarters. Urban agglomeration 139,383 (2011). Described as a major cotton trading centre, nicknamed 'City of Cotton', with cotton ginning and pressing mills. The 1940-41 Hyderabad State marketing table records Adilabad with 68 traders, 46,000 carts and commodity value Rs 8,95,000, and the district with 63 weekly bazaars, 3 mandis, 1 regulated market and 3 cattle bazaars - the highest weekly-bazaar count in the Telangana region. Akinapally Ramkishan's study of trade in the Nizam's State (citing Y. Vaikuntham, 'State, Economy and Social Transformation: Hyderabad State 1724-1948', p.160) records that "The trading castes are represented by the Jain Vanis in the Maratha Districts, by Lingayat vanis in the Karnatic, and by Komatis in Telangana, while Marwari traders are to be found in all the large villages."
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