Chintamani (Chinthamanipet)
Town
Chikkaballapur district
Karnataka
Rice (1897), Kolar District chapter: 'Chintamani (more properly Chinthamanipet). - An important commercial town, 27 miles north-north-west of Kolar; head-quarters of the Chintamani taluq, and a municipality... The town is named after its founder Chintamani Rao, a Mahratta chief, and is the seat of the Komatis or banking class. Considerable trade is carried on in gold, silver, and precious stones, besides other merchandise.' Population 3,839 in 1891 (3,107 Hindus including 3 Jains, 731 Muhammadans, 1 Christian). This is the single most explicit colonial-government statement identifying a Karnataka town as a Komati seat. Chintamani was in Kolar District in 1897 and is now a taluk headquarters in Chikkaballapur district. HIGH PRIORITY: any Arya Vysya family tradition of Kolar-district banking origins should be checked against Chintamani.
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