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CENSUS OF INDIA 1951 CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT VlLLAGE~WISE MOTHER-TONGUE DATA FOR BORDER TALUKS BY J. 1. ARPUTHANATHAN, B.A., B.L., Superinlend.nr of Census Operaiions, Madras PRINTED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT GOVERNMENT PRESS MADRAS 1955 VILLAGE.WISE MOTHER-TONGUE DATA FOR BORDER TALUKS. CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. NOTE. The statements appended give figures in respect of were received in the Regional Tabulation office con· the. principal mother"tongue languages for each census cerned for being sorted there for arriving at the figures unit (village or town) in the taluks of Chingleput dis for the prescribed district tables. The census unit was trwt of the Madras State situated on the borders of either a village or a panchayat or a' municipality the Andhra, State. inclusive of all hamlets or other villages comprised in each. The slips relating to each rural census unit 2. The figures have been gathered by me at the were in separate bundles. In the case of census towns instance of the Government of India who in consulta and cities the slips relating to each ward of the census tion ~ith the State Governments concerood instructed town or city were kept distinct. In the Tabulation me to gather the figures from the census enumeration office, the slips relating to each rural unit and urban SJ;!.ps of the 1951 Census which had been deposited for ward were examined and the slips relating to displaced sfJ"e custody in the offices ··f the Collectors of the persons were separated. A 10 per cent sample was districts, concerned. extracted from the rest of the slips. The remaining 3. The 1951 Census tables relating to m')ther-tongue 90 per cent slips which were called" .General slips ,. 1$nguages give only figures for the district as a whole. were kept distinct. These three categories of slips, viz., The figures f')r the district were compiled from those General, Sample and Displaced persons, w~re then g"thered for subdivisions of distr~cts called " Census operated upon independently and villagewise popula Tracts" . These census tracts are convenient divisions tion data in respect of rural areas and ward-wise of the district adopted for facilitating the work of population data in respect of the cities and towp.s of the sorting the 1951 Census enumeration slips and 'compila urban areas were gathered with break up for sex titm of the required statistics. In forming the census categories and the eight livelihood classes prescribed ~cts the rural areas ()f each district were kept distinct in the Tabulation Plan. Mter obtaining the popula from the urban areas. The rural areas of each district tion figures for each village/ward the enumeration were divided into a number of units called" Rural slips relating to the units in each census tract were Tracts" and the urban areas _were divided into a thrown together for sorting for tract-wise details number of units called "Urban Tracts". As far as required for the several prescribed census tables. The possible the rur~l areas of each taluk were constituted identity of the bundles of slips relating to each village, into a single rural tract. The urban tracts were formed panchayat and municipality was lost and the groups of Qut of the areas declared as cities and census towns in bundles were merged into the "Census Tract". The ~h district. Every city was treated as a separate distinction between the General slips, Sample slips tta,ct 'and was called a " City Tract ". Towns other than and those relating to Dispalced persons were, however, oities were grouped together to form "Non-City Urban maintained throughout. At the close of the sorting Tracts." Wherever possible the towns other than operations, the census slips relating to each tract as Cities in-each taluk were made'into a single "Non-City distrib~ted and bundled for ~he last item of the sorting '"Qrban Tract." In cases where the towns in a taluk had 'operatIOns were preserved mtact under each of the a total populatiQIl of less than 50,000, the towns in three categories, General slips, Sample slips and slips more than one taluk were grouped together to form a relating to Displaced persons. The bundles of slips i!&n-city urban tract. For example, in the Chingleput relating to each district were put in boxes or gunny 4istric~, the towns in the taluks of Ponneri, Tiruvallur . bags, sealed and transferred to the Collector's office . *tid Sriperumbudur, viz., Pulicat, Ami and Ponneri in concerned for safe custody there. It is from these slips . Ponneri taluk, Tiruvallur in Tiruvallur taluk, Sriperum that the present mother-tongue language figures for ~dur, Poonamallee l;l.nd Kunrathur in Sriperumbudur each unit (village or town) in a taluk have been Wuk were constituted into a single NOll-City Urban collected. The procedure adopted by me is briefly . tract; whereas the towns in Saidapet taluk consisting indicated below. Of Tiruvottiyur, Villivakkam, Alandur, Pallavaram, at. Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram and Tambaram 5. Before the slips were transported baok to my ;rere put into a single Non-City Urban Tract. office from the Collector's office where they were held in safe custody, I or one of my Ga.zetted Assistants '" 4. Under the Tabulation Plan of 1951 Census, the personally went to the Collector's office, satisfied .umeration slips of all census units in each district himself that the seals on the boxes or gunny bags were ii intact, checked also that the bundles kept inside other village with the result that they were sorted with each box or gunny bag were in accordance with the slips relating to the latter village. This defect the list of contents of the box kept inside it by the has been set right at the present sorting. In all such Tabulation office, resealed them and had them cases I have taken care to arrive at the correct figures transported to my office. On their receipt in my by a reference to the National Register of Citizens office, the slips relating to each tract were first counted relating to the units. to find out if the total number of slips agreed with the In some cases the enumerators had omitted to mark total of the population figures of the tract originally the code number of the village on some of the slips. obtained and recorded. Care was also taken to In most cases, it was possible to locate the village to verify with reference to the code numbers of the taluks which they related either by reference to the hand mentioned on the slips, if the slips relating to any other writing on the slips, or by reference to the name of the tract were mixed up with those of the tract to which village, entered on many of them against the answer the slips purported to relate. to question 10 (Means of Livelihood and place- of work). Regular sorting for language figures was commenced In every case, the identification was got confirmed' by a only t}lereafter. The operations consisted of two reference to the l'eleyant National Register of Citizens. stages. At the first stage the slips were sorted out Where such identification could not be secured the for the units in the tract, viz., villages, panchayats and slips were treated as unidentifiable and shown as such municipalities. This sorting was done with reference in the statements appended. to the location code number of the village entered at S. The total of the language figures obtained at the the top of each slip. The number of slips representing present sorting in respect of the units in the rural the pop,ulation figure thus obtained in respect of tracts when compared with those arrived at at the 1951 each village or panchayat or municipal town was sorting for the same rural tracts showed some varift, compared with the population figure of the same tions. Such comparison in respect of figures relating village, panchayat or municipal town obtained at the to urban units in a taluk now obtained is not possible original census sorting in order to ensure that the slips as only "tract" figures were compiled at the 1951 of each village were all available. The sorting for vil Census and not figures for urban units in a taluk and as' lages thus made was checked cent per cent by persons already pointed out in paragraph 3 supra a non-city specially appointed as Compiler-checkers. A fair urban tract invariably comprised towns in more than percentage of the work done by the sorters and one taluk. The reason for the difference in the rural Compiler-checkers was also checked by me and by tracts is this :- my two Deputy Superintendents. In some cases the enumerator had omitted to mark against the appropriate question the symbol 6. At the second stage of sorting the slips relating relating to the mother-tongue language of the indivi to each village, panchayat or municipality were sorted dual represented by the slips. In some cases the out for the principal mother-tongue languages of the symbol marked was either unintelligible or meaning taluk. The slips relating to persons with languages less. For example, the language symbol marked by other than the principal mother-tongue languages were some enumerators in the case of children was ' 0 '. kept separate and counted. At this stage also a cent According to the instructions issued for the original per cent check of the work# done by the sorters was census sorting, the language of the individual in whose effected by the checkers. The check related not only case there is no entry in the slip should be taken as the to language sorting but also to the counting done.