Gujaratipeta
Village
Vizianagaram district
Andhra Pradesh
Merchant settlement in the Cheepurupalli area. NOT an Arya Vysya quarter - recorded because it is the region's other documented merchant settlement and is easily confused with one. Modern mandal assignment inferred from the gazetteer's taluk.
Community institutions
Gujaratipeta merchant settlement
Market ·
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1907 gazetteer, Chipurupalle taluk: a village of 1,272 inhabitants 'founded many years ago by a number of Gujarati Brahmans who traded in precious stones', some of whose descendants still carried on the same business.
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Source
Madras District Gazetteers: Vizagapatam (W. Francis, 1907), transcribed on Wikisource
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