Karimnagar

District headquarters; municipality from 1952 (third grade), municipal corporation since 2005. The district's official demography page gives the corporation population as 261,185 (2011) and calls it the fourth largest city in Telangana; Wikipedia gives 297,447 within corporation limits - both figures recorded, neither reconciled. Long-standing trading town: Akinapally Ramkishan's study of trade in the Nizam's State (citing Y. Vaikuntham, 'State, Economy and Social Transformation: Hyderabad State 1724-1948', p.160) records that "The trading castes are represented by the Jain Vanis in the Maratha Districts, by Lingayat vanis in the Karnatic, and by Komatis in Telangana, while Marwari traders are to be found in all the large villages." The same study lists the important trade-centres of Hyderabad State as including Karimnagar, Peddapally, Jagtial, Korutla, Sirpur, Nirmal, Bodan (Bodhan), Kamareddy and Indur (Nizamabad). The 1940-41 marketing-centre table lists Karimnagar with 51 traders (cart and value columns blank), and the district with 18 weekly bazaars, 2 mandis and 2 periodical bazaars; Adilabad and Karimnagar are named as the Telangana sources of fine quality cotton for the Bombay and Mysore mills. The city is nationally known for silver filigree. The official district history and culture pages describe Sabbinadu, Elgandal fort and the 1905 transfer of the district headquarters from Elgandal to Karimnagar, but say nothing about merchant communities. No source consulted names a Vasavi Kanyaka Parameswari temple or Arya Vysya sangam inside Karimnagar city.