Visakhapatnam
Metro
Visakhapatnam district
Andhra Pradesh
1,728,128 in 2011
Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC), constituted 21 Nov 2005; district page gives the GVMC-area 2011 figure as 2,037,944 while the city article gives 1,728,128 for the city proper. Historic port: the Wikipedia article records European merchants from France, Holland and the East India Company exporting tobacco, paddy, coal, iron ore, ivory, muslin and textiles through the natural harbour; the old port at Jalari Peta was built by the Maharaja of Jeypore. Largest urban concentration of Arya Vysya trading families in the region (institution list below carries the sourced entries). Madras District Gazetteers, Vizagapatam Vol. I (1907), p.229: a lawsuit is recounted between 'a Komati owner of a vessel and his Muhammadan skipper' over accounts, evidencing Arya Vysya ship-owning merchants at the Vizagapatam port. Source: https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.207070/2015.207070.Madras-District_djvu.txt EXPLICITLY NOT A VYSYA ENDOWMENT (recorded so it is not mis-filed): the Turner Chattram, Main Road, founded 1894 as a memorial to a British Collector on a site gifted by the Maharaja of Vizianagaram and built by public subscription; it still appears on the AP Endowments list as 'Sri Turner Choultry, Main Road, Visakhapatnam'. It stands in the historic One Town bazaar quarter.
Community institutions
Prince of Wales' Market and the Vizagapatam bazaar-street
Market ·
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1907 gazetteer: the town's main bazaar-street is 'a clean, bright, well-built line of houses wearing a prosperous air', with a large series of market stalls built in 1876 (Prince of Wales' Market) and an 1885 clock-tower in the same street.
Poorna Market (Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Market), One Town
Market ·
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Wholesale and retail market started in 1935 and the city's main market during the Second World War, when it was hit in a Japanese air raid; it sits in the old One Town trading quarter. Not a caste institution - recorded as the historic merchant market of the city.
Sri Vasavi Kanyaka Parameswari Temple, One Town / Fort Ward
Temple ·
medium confidence
Gopura-style temple in the old One Town trading quarter near Kurupam Market, reported as about 135 years old and revered by the Arya Vysya community as their ilavelpu (family deity); favoured by the business community of the north coastal districts, with an adjoining open-air hall used for samuhika pujas. A second local listing (https://hellovizag.in/place/kanyaka-parameswari-temple, low confidence) places the same temple in Fort Ward and calls it one of the oldest standing gopura structures there.
Vasavi Clubs International - 'E' Vanitha Greater Visakha club (No. 4282)
Sangam ·
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Vasavi Clubs International, the Arya Vysya service-club movement founded at Hyderabad in 1961, lists a Greater Visakha Vanitha club among its chartered clubs.
Vysya Students Hostel - Madhurawada branch
Trust ·
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Second hostel block of the same 1937 association, at Midhilapuri VUDA Colony, Madhurawada, on a 600 sq yd site for about 80 Arya Vysya students attending the Madhurawada college cluster; new building inaugurated 18 June 2017.
Vysya Students Hostel, Visakhapatnam (The Vysya Students Welfare Association, Vizagpatam)
Trust ·
medium confidence
Community charitable hostel at Maharanipeta near Jagadamba Junction, established 18 October 1937 to house and fund Arya Vysya students studying in the city; accommodation is free and students run the mess cooperatively. Blocks rebuilt 1994 and expanded 2007.
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