 Unlike manigiramam, which was also operating in Indian hinterland, the presence of anjuvannam is found only in coastal towns.The guild of anjuvannam was organised by West Asian traders that included Jewish, Syrian Christian, Muslim and Zoroastrian Parsi merchants operating in south India (mostly Indian Ocean trade).Historian Y. Subbarayalu had defined the anjuvannam guild as a "body of West Asian traders".