Anantapur

DISTRICT-WIDE GAZETTEER CONTEXT on the Arya Vysya / Komati community: W. Francis, Madras District Gazetteers: Anantapur (1905), Ch. III, p. 36 lists among the district's castes 'the Balija and Komati traders, the Golla neat-herds, Kamma cultivators, Odde (Woddah) stone-workers, the Malas who weave coarse cotton stuffs'. This is the ONLY general statement about Komatis in the volume. For the neighbouring districts that then contained Kadiri and Rayadurg, the Cuddapah gazetteer (1915, p. 114) states 'The big traders of the district are Komatis, the principal caste of hereditary merchants in the Telugu country. Much of the retail trade is also in their hands', and the Bellary gazetteer (1904, p. 77) names 'the merchant and shop-keeping castes of the Komatis, Balijas and Banajigas'. District trade structure (1905, p. 70): 'Tadpatri is the chief trade centre of the north of the district and Hindupur of the south.' OFFICIAL CENSUS FIGURE: the Census of India 2011 Provisional Population Totals table 'Cities having population 1 lakh and above' (p. 11) lists this town as 'Anantapur (M Corp.)' with a total population of 262,340. That official figure is carried in the population field. CONFLICT: the district Wikipedia article's ULB table gives 340,613 for the same 2011 census year - the difference is understood to be municipal/corporation boundary versus the boundary used in the provisional tabulation, but no source reconciling the two could be retrieved, so both are recorded. Urban local body merged with its mandal-headquarters record. Civic status per the official CDMA ULB directory (listed as 'ANANTAPUR', grade code 'Corp' = Municipal Corporation). Wikipedia's district article states 'Municipal Corporation'. 2011 population 340,613 is as published by Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anantapur_district); no live official census URL for this town could be retrieved, so the population figure is medium-confidence even though the civic status is official. Revenue division: Anantapuramu. The mandal name is from the official district portal; the grouping into revenue divisions is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anantapur_district, because the official portal's mandal table is not explicitly grouped by division. Division assignment is therefore medium-confidence. Official portal https://ananthapuramu.ap.gov.in/divisions/ confirms exactly 3 revenue divisions (Anantapuramu, Kalyandurg, Guntakal). SOURCE CONFLICT on mandal count: https://ananthapuramu.ap.gov.in/mandal/ states the district 'consists of 31 Mandals' and tabulates 31 (one combined 'Anantapur' entry), while https://ananthapuramu.ap.gov.in/mandals/ tabulates 32 (Anantapur Urban and Anantapur Rural listed separately); Wikipedia's prose says 31 but its list has 32. This dataset carries 32. Separate conflict: https://ananthapuramu.ap.gov.in/demography/ is stale, still reporting 63 revenue mandals, 5 revenue divisions and 19,130 sq km, i.e. the pre-2022 undivided Anantapur district.