Uravakonda
Mandal HQ
Anantapur district
Andhra Pradesh
Revenue division: Guntakal. 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.
Community institutions
Uravakonda weekly market and cotton-weaving trade centre
Market_trade ·
high confidence
1905 Madras District Gazetteer, p. 166: 'It is the commercial centre of this end of the taluk and in its turn trades with Bellary... it is the principal home of the cotton-weaving industry in the taluk.' p. 70 ranks Uravakonda among the district's four best-attended weekly markets after Hindupur. Imperial Gazetteer of India, Madras Vol. I (1908), pp. 495-496: 'The main street is wide and regular... Uravakonda is the commercial centre of this portion of the Gooty taluk, and is also known for its weaving.' NOTE: the gazetteer mentions a stone well east of the town called the 'Mallisetti bhavi'; although '-setti' is a merchant title, the source states 'Local tradition knows nothing of Mallisetti except that he was some desayi' (a revenue headman title), so NO merchant-endowment claim is made for it here.
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