Salur
Town
Parvathipuram Manyam district
Andhra Pradesh
49,500 in 2011
First/Grade-II municipality (municipality from 1950, Grade II from 2001); a feudal estate (samsthanam) under the British Raj. On the Vegavathi river. 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. Salur was a documented Komati-organised trans-shipment point between the plains and the Agency (hill) tracts.
Community institutions
Salur weekly market (hill-produce mart)
Market ·
high confidence
The 1907 gazetteer (p.131) lists Salur among the four best-attended weekly markets of the district, important as a mart of hill produce at the foot of the Eastern Ghats; p.134 records that Komati traders of the low country furnished Brinjari pack-bullock gangs at Salur with salt and other loads for the Agency hinterland and gave them commissions to buy grain in return.
Arya Vysya Nityanna Dharmasala (satram), Salur
Choultry ·
medium confidence
Arya Vysya nitya-annadana satram (free-meal pilgrim inn) listed in the Telugu Wikipedia register of Arya Vysya nityanna satrams. Corroborated by an Arya Vysya sathram directory (https://aryavysyasangam.com/sathrams, low confidence) which lists an 'Arya Vaishya Community' sathram at Salur under the pre-2022 district name Vizianagaram - almost certainly the same institution.
Sri Vasavi Kanyaka Parameswari Temple, Salur
Temple ·
medium confidence
Listed in the Telugu Wikipedia register of Vasavi Kanyaka Parameswari temples as 'Salur, Manyam, Parvathipuram district 535591', i.e. explicitly placed in the post-2022 Parvathipuram Manyam district.
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