Tadipatri
City
Anantapur district
Andhra Pradesh
108,249 in 2011
POPULATION CONFLICT: the Anantapur district article's ULB table gives 120,990 (2011), while the Tadipatri town article's infobox gives 178,171 dated 2021. Different reference years; only the 2011 figure is carried in the population field. Cross-checked against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadipatri . 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 'Tadpatri (M)' with a total population of 108,249. That official figure is carried in the population field. CONFLICT: the district Wikipedia article's ULB table gives 120,990 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 'TADIPATRI', grade code 'Special' = Special Grade Municipality). Wikipedia's district article states 'Municipality Special Grade'. 2011 population 120,990 is as published by Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anantapur_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. Official district portal spells this mandal "Tadpatri". Revenue division: Anantapuramu. The mandal name is from the official district portal; the grouping into revenue divisions is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anantapur_district, because the official portal's mandal table is not explicitly grouped by division. Division assignment is therefore medium-confidence. Official portal https://ananthapuramu.ap.gov.in/divisions/ confirms exactly 3 revenue divisions (Anantapuramu, Kalyandurg, Guntakal). SOURCE CONFLICT on mandal count: https://ananthapuramu.ap.gov.in/mandal/ states the district 'consists of 31 Mandals' and tabulates 31 (one combined 'Anantapur' entry), while https://ananthapuramu.ap.gov.in/mandals/ tabulates 32 (Anantapur Urban and Anantapur Rural listed separately); Wikipedia's prose says 31 but its list has 32. This dataset carries 32. Separate conflict: https://ananthapuramu.ap.gov.in/demography/ is stale, still reporting 63 revenue mandals, 5 revenue divisions and 19,130 sq km, i.e. the pre-2022 undivided Anantapur district.
Community institutions
Jubilee Chattram, Tadipatri
Choultry ·
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1905 Madras District Gazetteer, Ch. VII, p. 75: of the district's fifteen Local Board choultries for travellers, 'No fees are levied in any of them, except that at the Jubilee chattram at Tadpatri a charge of one anna a day is made for the use of certain rooms which are of a class superior to the others.' No community attribution is given in the source and none is asserted here.
Kanyakamma (Kanyaka Parameswari) temple built by the local Komatis, in a bazaar street of Tadipatri
Temple ·
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1905 Madras District Gazetteer, Ch. XV, p. 202, verbatim: 'In one of the bazaar streets is a noteworthy construction. It is a temple which is being erected by the local Komatis to their caste goddess Kanyakamma, the deified form of the Komati girl who, according to the story, threw herself into a pit of fire to stop the persecution to which her caste-fellows were being subjected by a king who wanted to marry her in spite of their objections.' The gazetteer praises the sculpture and records that 'The workmen are Kamsalas from Proddatur in the Cuddapah district.' Corroborated by the Imperial Gazetteer of India, Provincial Series: Madras, Vol. I (1908), p. 495: 'In the centre of the town another fine temple is now under construction by the local Chettis.' No founder or trustee is named in either source. Continued existence in the present day is NOT verified here.
Tadipatri bazaar streets and weekly market - trade held by Komati merchants
Merchant_quarter ·
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1905 Madras District Gazetteer, p. 203, verbatim: 'The trade of the town is conducted by the Komatis and a few Marvadis and is chiefly with Bellary and Madras. The chief imports are kerosine, piecegoods, salt and iron from Madras; jaggery and cocoanuts from Hindupur; rice from the Anantapur taluk; and timber from the Nallamalais. The exports are ghee (which is sent to Madras in tins), cotton, woven cloth, onions and indigo.' And p. 202: Tadipatri 'is the commercial emporium of this part of the country, its weekly market being one of the best attended in the district.' The weekly market site is given at p. 199 as the sand-dune north-east of the Chintala Tiruvenkatasvami temple. This is the single most explicit statement in the gazetteer that a town's trade was held by the Komati (Arya Vysya) community.
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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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