Kadiri
City
Sri Sathya Sai district
Andhra Pradesh
POPULATION CONFLICT: the Sri Sathya Sai district article's town table gives 112,283 (2011), while the Kadiri town article's infobox gives 89,429 (2011). Both are recorded; the district-table figure is carried in the population field. EVIDENCE FAVOURING THE LOWER FIGURE: Kadiri does not appear at all in the Census of India 2011 Provisional Population Totals table 'Cities having population 1 lakh and above' (https://web.archive.org/web/20190105195939/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/India2/Table_2_PR_Cities_1Lakh_and_Above.pdf), which does list Anantapur, Guntakal, Tadpatri, Dharmavaram and Hindupur - implying Kadiri was below 100,000 in 2011 and that the 112,283 figure is not a 2011 census municipal total. The population field is therefore left null pending an official source. Cross-checked against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadiri . Urban local body merged with its mandal-headquarters record. Civic status per the official CDMA ULB directory (listed as 'KADIRI', grade code 'Special' = Special Grade Municipality). Wikipedia's district article states 'Municipality'. 2011 population 112,283 is as published by Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Sathya_Sai_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: Kadiri. The mandal name is from the official district portal; the grouping into revenue divisions is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Sathya_Sai_district, because the official portal's mandal table is not explicitly grouped by division. Division assignment is therefore medium-confidence. Official portal https://srisathyasai.ap.gov.in/revenue-divisions/ lists 5 revenue divisions (Puttaparthi, Penukonda, Kadiri, Dharmavaram, Madakasira). Madakasira revenue division was formed on 31 December 2025 per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Sathya_Sai_district. SOURCE CONFLICT on counts: the same portal's https://srisathyasai.ap.gov.in/mandal/ prose says 'Sri Satyasai District Consists of 29 Mandals' yet its own table numbers 32 mandals, and https://srisathyasai.ap.gov.in/demography/ reports 29 revenue mandals and only 3 revenue divisions. This dataset carries the 32 mandals tabulated on the official portal. HISTORICAL JURISDICTION: in 1905 Anantapur District had only eight taluks (Anantapur, Dharmavaram, Gooty, Hindupur, Kalyandrug, Madakasira, Penukonda, Tadpatri). Kadiri was then in Cuddapah District and was transferred to Anantapur in October 1910; Rayadurg was then in Bellary District. Neither therefore appears in the 1905 Anantapur gazetteer.
Community institutions
Kadiri Vysya Bank
Bank ·
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Listed as a scheduled bank at Kadiri in the banking table of the District Census Handbook, Anantapur District (1961 Census). A bank of the same family, 'Vysya Bank', is listed at Hindupur in the same table. Recorded because the name is an explicit Arya Vysya / Vysya community marker; the handbook gives no founder or officer names and none are recorded here. Present-day status NOT verified - Vysya Bank Ltd was later absorbed into a larger bank, so this is a historical 1961 record only.
Kadiri grain trade and Narasimha temple pilgrimage, c.1908
Market_trade ·
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Kadiri was a taluk of CUDDAPAH district until October 1910, so it has no entry in the 1905 Anantapur gazetteer. Imperial Gazetteer of India, Provincial Series: Madras, Vol. I (1908), pp. 396-397: 'A large temple here (one of the most famous in the District) is dedicated to Narasimha, to whose festival many pilgrims resort in the early part of the year... Since the town became a station on the South Indian Railway, it has increased in importance as a trade centre. A brisk business in grain is transacted.' The Cuddapah gazetteer (1915) states at p. 114 that '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' - a DISTRICT-WIDE statement for Cuddapah, of which Kadiri taluk then formed part; it is NOT a statement about Kadiri town specifically, and is recorded here only as context.
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Source
ULB's Web Directory - Commissioner & Director of Municipal Administration, Government of Andhra Pradesh
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Elsewhere in Sri Sathya Sai
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