Narsipatnam
Town
Anakapalli district
Andhra Pradesh
33,757 in 2011
First-grade municipality, upgraded from gram panchayat in 2011/2012; revenue division and mandal headquarters. Long-standing market town for the agency (hill) hinterland. 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. The 1907 gazetteer's Golgonda taluk chapter contains only one Komati reference for the whole taluk - the Narasapatam mango pickle - so Narsipatnam is the single named-village Arya Vysya trade record inside modern Anakapalli district's hill belt.
Community institutions
Komati mango-pickle trade, Narasapatam
Market ·
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The 1907 gazetteer (p.254) records of Narasapatam (Narsipatnam) that 'the town boasts no noteworthy products unless it be the mango pickle its Komatis make' - an explicit record of an Arya Vysya (Komati) manufacturing and trading presence in the town.
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