Gooty
Town
Anantapur district
Andhra Pradesh
48,658 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 'GOOTY', grade code 'III' = Grade-III Municipality). Wikipedia's district article states 'Municipality Grade - 3'. 2011 population 48,658 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. 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
Kanyaka Parameswari temple built by the Komatis of Gooty
Temple ·
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1905 Madras District Gazetteer, Ch. XV, p. 154, verbatim: 'There are no temples of architectural merit in Gooty... The Komatis have built a new temple to their patron goddess Kanyaka Paramesvari. The mass of the people pay their chief allegiance to the Ellamma and Mariamma temples.' The volume's own index (p. 210) reads 'Komatis, their temple to Kanyaka Paramesvari at Gooty, 154; and Tadpatri, 202.' This is one of only two Komati/Arya Vysya temples documented anywhere in the 1905 district gazetteer. No founder or trustee is named in the source. Continued existence in the present day is NOT verified here.
Munro Chattram (Munro choultry), Gooty
Choultry ·
high confidence
1905 gazetteer p. 154: built at a cost of Rs.33,000, 'For the upkeep of these an endowment in land and money of Rs.2,049 per annum was granted. Part of this was originally expended in feeding travellers in the chattram... the feeding of travellers was discontinued.' Gazetteer p. 75 records it as the only one of the district's fifteen Local Board choultries with any endowment. NOT a community-specific institution - it is a British-era public chattram named for Sir Thomas Munro - recorded here as documented choultry infrastructure, not as an Arya Vysya foundation.
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Source
ULB's Web Directory - Commissioner & Director of Municipal Administration, Government of Andhra Pradesh
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