Hindupur
City
Sri Sathya Sai district
Andhra Pradesh
151,835 in 2011
OFFICIAL CENSUS FIGURE: the Census of India 2011 Provisional Population Totals table 'Cities having population 1 lakh and above' (p. 11) lists this town as 'Hindupur (M)' with a total population of 151,835. That official figure is carried in the population field. CONFLICT: the district Wikipedia article's ULB table gives 151,677 for the same 2011 census year - the difference is understood to be municipal/corporation boundary versus the boundary used in the provisional tabulation, but no source reconciling the two could be retrieved, so both are recorded. Urban local body merged with its mandal-headquarters record. Civic status per the official CDMA ULB directory (listed as 'HINDUPUR', grade code 'Selection' = Selection Grade Municipality). Wikipedia's district article states 'Municipality'. 2011 population 151,677 is as published by Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Sathya_Sai_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: Penukonda. The mandal name is from the official district portal; the grouping into revenue divisions is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Sathya_Sai_district, because the official portal's mandal table is not explicitly grouped by division. Division assignment is therefore medium-confidence. Official portal https://srisathyasai.ap.gov.in/revenue-divisions/ lists 5 revenue divisions (Puttaparthi, Penukonda, Kadiri, Dharmavaram, Madakasira). Madakasira revenue division was formed on 31 December 2025 per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Sathya_Sai_district. SOURCE CONFLICT on counts: the same portal's https://srisathyasai.ap.gov.in/mandal/ prose says 'Sri Satyasai District Consists of 29 Mandals' yet its own table numbers 32 mandals, and https://srisathyasai.ap.gov.in/demography/ reports 29 revenue mandals and only 3 revenue divisions. This dataset carries the 32 mandals tabulated on the official portal.
Community institutions
Five travellers' choultries at Hindupur
Choultry ·
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1905 Madras District Gazetteer, p. 171: 'The place also contains five choultries for travellers, one of which provides food as well as shelter.' No community attribution is given in the source and none is asserted here.
Hindupur weekly market and merchant street (largest commercial centre of the old district)
Market_trade ·
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1905 Madras District Gazetteer, p. 170, verbatim: Hindupur 'is best known as being the largest commercial centre in Anantapur. Many thousands of maunds of tanning barks, grain, tamarind, jaggery, and other articles are annually exported (mostly to other districts) from its railway-station... The collection and distribution of this merchandise is carried on by a number of substantial merchants and the weekly market is the largest in the district.' p. 171 on the merchant street: 'one broad street. Here, as in Madakasira, the house and shop verandahs are high, and are supported on substantial and often handsomely carved wooden pillars.' pp. 170-171 record the town's origin as a trading settlement: 'the Sultan... induced people to settle in it by concessions in the way of remissions of taxation, and that shortly afterwards traders came to it and established shops and markets.' IMPORTANT: the gazetteer does NOT identify these merchants by community - it names no Komatis at Hindupur - so no Arya Vysya attribution is made here.
Vysya Bank branch, Hindupur
Bank ·
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Listed in the banking table of the District Census Handbook, Anantapur District (1961 Census). Recorded because the name is an explicit Arya Vysya / Vysya community marker. No individual names recorded. Present-day status NOT verified; this is a historical 1961 record only.
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Source
Provisional Population Totals, Census of India 2011 - Cities having population 1 lakh and above (Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India), p. 11
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Elsewhere in Sri Sathya Sai
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