Parvathipuram
Town
Parvathipuram Manyam district
Andhra Pradesh
53,844 in 2011
District headquarters of Parvathipuram Manyam; first-grade municipality (1959). Revenue division headquarters. Trade in paddy, cashew, mango and mahua. Temples named: Kasi Viswanath temple at Addapusila, Sri Venkateswara Swamy temple at Thotapalli ('Chinna Tirupathi'); St Paul's Lutheran Church (1888). 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. Parvathipuram was a documented Komati-organised trans-shipment point between the plains and the Agency tracts.
Community institutions
Parvathipuram weekly market (hill-produce mart)
Market ·
high confidence
The 1907 gazetteer (p.131) lists Parvatipur (Parvathipuram) among the four best-attended weekly markets of the district; p.134 records Komati traders of the low country furnishing Brinjari pack-bullock gangs at Parvatipur with salt and other goods for the Agency hinterland.
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