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BANKING TRADE AND COMMERCE
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PEDLARS
Following is a description of pedlars from the old Satara Gazetteer which states that " below the village shopkeepers are the pedlars and hawkers who are generally Marwari and local Vanis, Talis, Kasars, and Shimpis. These men travel from village to village during the six or eight months of the fair season ". In 1959, there were nearly 6OO pedlars in this district with a majority of them in Karad and Wai talukas. They
carry a variety of articles winch include groceries. fruits, ice-candies, vegetables, spices, ready-made clothes, sarees, khans, tea, bread, biscuits, sweetmeats, etc., either on their person or on bicycles. Moving from village to village, they sell their goods on cash basis or against agricultural produce to their customers to whom they are intimately known. They usually purchase their stock-in-trade from the merchants at all the market places.
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