Palakonda
Town
Parvathipuram Manyam district
Andhra Pradesh
31,425 in 2011
Nagar panchayat (2013) and revenue division + mandal headquarters. Sri Kota Durgamma temple. NOTE: the district article gives 20,760 against the town article's 31,425 - verify. Madras District Gazetteers, Vizagapatam Vol. I (1907), Occupations and Trade, p.130-131: 'In the plain taluks, the greater part of the trade is in the hands of the Komati caste' (Komati = Arya Vysya), with Kapus, Balijas, Pattu Sales and Devangas taking a smaller share and a few Marwaris in the bigger towns financing operations. The gazetteer (p.123) also records that in three or four villages near Palkonda, Perike weavers wove jute gunny on handlooms which was 'sold to the Komati gram-traders and by them cut up and stitched into bags' - direct evidence of an Arya Vysya grain-trading network based on this market. Palkonda taluk was also the district's indigo centre under Messrs Arbuthnot & Co. (p.121).
Community institutions
Palakonda weekly market (hill-produce mart)
Market ·
high confidence
The 1907 gazetteer (p.131) lists Palkonda (Palakonda) among the four best-attended weekly markets of the district and as the northern end of the line of hill-foot markets at which hill produce was exchanged for plains goods.
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