Rayadurgam
Town
Anantapur district
Andhra Pradesh
61,749 in 2011
CONFIDENCE: marked medium because the 2011 population carried here is published only by Wikipedia; the town is below the 1-lakh threshold of the official Census 2011 provisional cities table, and no official per-town census page could be retrieved. The civic status itself IS official (CDMA ULB directory). Urban local body merged with its mandal-headquarters record. Civic status per the official CDMA ULB directory (listed as 'RAYADURG', grade code 'II' = Grade-II Municipality). Wikipedia's district article states 'Municipality Grade - 2'. 2011 population 61,749 is as published by Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anantapur_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. Official district portal spells this mandal "Rayadurg". Revenue division: Kalyandurg. The mandal name is from the official district portal; the grouping into revenue divisions is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anantapur_district, because the official portal's mandal table is not explicitly grouped by division. Division assignment is therefore medium-confidence. Official portal https://ananthapuramu.ap.gov.in/divisions/ confirms exactly 3 revenue divisions (Anantapuramu, Kalyandurg, Guntakal). SOURCE CONFLICT on mandal count: https://ananthapuramu.ap.gov.in/mandal/ states the district 'consists of 31 Mandals' and tabulates 31 (one combined 'Anantapur' entry), while https://ananthapuramu.ap.gov.in/mandals/ tabulates 32 (Anantapur Urban and Anantapur Rural listed separately); Wikipedia's prose says 31 but its list has 32. This dataset carries 32. Separate conflict: https://ananthapuramu.ap.gov.in/demography/ is stale, still reporting 63 revenue mandals, 5 revenue divisions and 19,130 sq km, i.e. the pre-2022 undivided Anantapur district. 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
Rayadurg weaving trade and commerce with Bellary, 1904
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Rayadurg was a taluk of BELLARY district in 1904, so it has no entry in the Anantapur gazetteer. Gazetteer of the Bellary District (1904), p. 302: 'Rayadrug town contains two or three broad and regular streets and many narrow and irregular lanes. Its only industry is the weaving which has already been referred to and the manufacture of borugulu... Trade is conducted largely with Bellary, but also with Kalyandrug and with the neighbouring villages in Mysore.' The same volume (pp. 103-105) lists Rayadrug among the chief centres for cotton and mixed silk-and-cotton weaving, including pitambar cloths costing 'as much as Rs. 150 a piece'. The Bellary volume names 'the merchant and shop-keeping castes of the Komatis, Balijas and Banajigas' among the district's castes generally (p. 77) but does NOT tie them to Rayadurg specifically.
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Source
ULB's Web Directory - Commissioner & Director of Municipal Administration, Government of Andhra Pradesh
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