Krishnadevipeta

Market village named in the 1907 gazetteer (p.131) as the southern anchor of the line of hill-foot markets where hill produce was exchanged for plains goods; the gazetteer also records the Krishnadevipet police station being rushed during the Agency disturbances (p.235) and a hill track leading up from Krishnadevipet to Peddavalasa (p.244). Madras District Gazetteers, Vizagapatam Vol. I (1907), Occupations and Trade, p.130-131: 'In the plain taluks, the greater part of the trade is in the hands of the Komati caste' (Komati = Arya Vysya), with Kapus, Balijas, Pattu Sales and Devangas taking a smaller share and a few Marwaris in the bigger towns financing operations. Modern mandal assignment (Golugonda) is inferred and not re-verified against a current LGD record. The 1907 gazetteer additionally describes Krishnadevipet as 'full of money-lenders, who have obtained possession on mortgage of much land in the Antada mutta'; the gazetteer elsewhere (Ch.3) records that Komatis, Pattu Sales and Marwaris did nearly all the money-lending in the district, though it does not name the caste of the Krishnadevipet lenders.