Akkipet
Locality
Bengaluru Urban district
Karnataka
Rice market quarter ('Akki pete... for marketing of commodities like... rice'), part of the commodity-market belt of the historic pete alongside Taragupete (grain) and Ragipete. Rice's 1897 description of the grain market: 'In the Grain market (Taragu-pete) a perfect block of carts stops the way, their contents being discharged in heaps into the street.' No Arya Vysya or Vasavi institution was located in Akkipet in the sources consulted.
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Elsewhere in Bengaluru Urban
Avenue Road (Doddapete)BalepetBasavanagudi (with Gandhi Bazaar)Bengaluru (Bangalore)Bengaluru Pete (the historic market town)ChamarajpetChickpet (Chikkapete)Cottonpet (Aralepete)HBR LayoutJ. P. NagarKodihalli / HAL 2nd StageKumaraswamy Layout / BanashankariMahalakshmipuram (Mahalakshmi Layout)MalleswaramNagarthpet (Nagarthapete / Nagarta pete)Rajajinagar / Manjunath NagarRajarajeshwari Nagar (Kenchenahalli)Sampangirama NagarShivajinagar (Commercial Street / Jewellers Street quarter)V. V. Puram (Vishveshwarapuram)