Place · cotton-trading town · India
Narasaraopet
Also known as Narasaraopet
The commercial town of Narasaraopet in Palnadu district, Andhra Pradesh, 50 kilometres west of Guntur. The town was founded in the 1830s by Rao Venkata Narasimha Appa Rao, who named it after himself and developed it as a cotton-trading hub. During British rule it became one of the key cotton markets of the Guntur district under the Madras Presidency. The 1946 Guntur district tobacco rebellion against colonial price controls was centred here. The 2022 Palnadu district formation made Narasaraopet one of the three new districts carved from the original Guntur district. The town is the commercial anchor of the Palnadu-Prakasam cotton-and-tobacco belt.
- Function
- Trade & production
- Patron dynasty
- British Raj · Indian Union
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 16.234, 80.046
Connections (1)
- Site adjacencyVinukonda
Narasaraopet and Vinukonda sit 50 kilometres apart in the Palnadu district of Andhra Pradesh. Narasaraopet (founded 1830s) was the Madras Presidency-era commercial centre of the Guntur-Palnadu cotton belt, while Vinukonda is the historic Palnadu military capital. The 2022 Palnadu district formation grouped both towns under a single administrative unit, with Narasaraopet as the commercial hub and Vinukonda as the heritage-tourism anchor.
Sources
Standard reference; district gazetteer and Wikipedia.
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