Nizamabad

Historic Indur, a district town of the Nizam's Dominions renamed Nizamabad after Asaf Jah VI; the official district history records the 1876 Salar Jung-I reorganisation that made Indur a district. Akinapally Ramkishan's study of trade in the Nizam's State (citing Y. Vaikuntham, 'State, Economy and Social Transformation: Hyderabad State 1724-1948', p.160) records that "The trading castes are represented by the Jain Vanis in the Maratha Districts, by Lingayat vanis in the Karnatic, and by Komatis in Telangana, while Marwari traders are to be found in all the large villages." The same study lists the important trade-centres of Hyderabad State as including Karimnagar, Peddapally, Jagtial, Korutla, Sirpur, Nirmal, Bodan (Bodhan), Kamareddy and Indur (Nizamabad). The same study's 1940-41 table of chief marketing centres records Nizamabad with 245 traders, 78,000 carts and commodity value Rs 52,56,000 - the largest of any centre in the ten northern districts - and counts 35 weekly bazaars, 2 mandis, 1 ganji, 1 regulated market and 8 cattle bazaars in Nizamabad district. Municipal corporation since 5 March 2005, 60 wards. No source consulted names an Arya Vysya sangam or Vasavi Kanyaka Parameswari temple inside Nizamabad city itself.