District Census Handbook, Nagpur, Part a & B
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CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK NAGPUR Part A-Town & Village Directory Part B-Primary Census Abstract Compiled by THE MAHARASHTRA CENSUS OFFICE BOMBAY f'rtl1ted w lndra by the Manager, Govemm('nt Press and Book Depot, Nagpur, and Publtshcct bv the DIrector, Co\ernment PrIntmg and Stationery Maharashtra State, Bombay-4 1974 CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 Central Government Publications Census Report, Series 11-Mlharashtra, is p:.tblished in th~ folbw~nJ Parts- I-A and n General Report I~C Subsidiary Tables II-A General Pcpulation Tables II-B General Eccnomic Tables H-C Social and Cultural Tables III EstablishJ:I?ents-Report and Tables IV Housing-Report and Tables VI-A Town Directory VI-B Special Survey Reports cn Selected Towns VI-C Survey Reports on Selected Villages VII Report on Graduates and Technical Personnel VIII-A Administration Report-Enumeration (For official use only) VIII-B Administratio'n Report-Tabuhtion (For official use only) IX Census Atlas of Maharashtra State Government Publications 26 Volumes of District Census Handbooks in English 26 Volumes of District Census Handbooks in Marathi A-2598--I-B \ 'i a N 'I \l v H fI ... 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Particulars of the distributi0n of population down to the smallest administrative unit like village and town and their broad characteristics are req'lired f-.r p:lrposes s:lch as ddimitation of electt"ral constituencies, adju'>tm~nt of ad ninistrative bound lries, education]l and man power plznning. The d Ita provid~d for small areas serVe" as statistic.lI frames for v.lriJus surveys that may be taken up. Part A rf this hand)(lok gives informltion relating to each village and town in the district. Revenue and mun'cipal officials all ever the district helped us in collecting the data for this section. Part B carries the 1971 primiry census abstract, which present the populatiC'n for each vtlh~e and urban block. The items covered are area, populltion and its sex break-up, household" occupied houses, literacy, schedlkd clstes and sched lIed tribes, work¢rs and n)n wrrkers with a break-up of workers into broad indmtrial categories. The pJpuiation figures given here have the sunrise cf 1st April 1971 as the reference da~e. I Part C, which will be published seplrately this time, will have a general 'note Qn the physical features of the district, it" 2dministrative set-up, its d~ffiQgrapllic and s-cio-ec8fi1mic characteriqtics. It will includ ~ [Jrther cemu" table'>. d'tliled official statistics on clim.lte, rainfall, agriculture, industry, education, health and the like. '\ In 1941, the p"pulation figures for villages and towns Were exhibited according to c')m munities, in the village handbocks published by the Government of B.Jmbay. In 19S),lthe bal"is of census classification changed frc m a social to an e<!on::>mic one; census data for villages and towns were presented according to eight livelih lod classes in the primary census abstracts published in the district census handbooks. ,This was the first occasion when district census handbooks were brought out. The handb.Jok c;)ntained inf.:>rmation about different amenities available in respect of each village and town. During the 1961 census, the scnpe of the handbJok Was enlarged. In addition to the census data in respect of each village and town, other offi::ial statistics for each district were made aVaIlable, with an introductory mte ex pia ning the salient features of the districts. The village director)" published as a part of the 1961 handboJk carried ba3ic Census data included in the primary census abstracts; it indicated the amenities available in each village and town by means of abbreviations. These included p;)stal, medical and educational facilities, sources of water-supply and bazar day. It was found that th'e primary census abstract, which needed a large number of c)lumns to present different data, allowed very little space for information on amenities. As a result, the district census handb,)ok has been divided into three parts in 197 I as mentioned above. The town and village directory of 1971 (Part A) gives information on amenities and faci lities available in each town and village in the districts cf Maharashtra. The particulars are presented tahsil wise under each district, The villages and towns are arranged accordmg to their census location cJde numbers. The particulars in the village directory were c::>Ilected through the revenue agency of the district en a prescribed forni. For the town directcry, six statements Were compiled. State ment I c( n1ains the 1971 cenfUS p, pulation data compiled by the census office. The non. cemus data in the other statements were supplied by the municipal c;>uncils for their areas and by the revenue agency for ncn-municipal towns. For purposes of the census, districts are divided into urban and rural areas. The urban area (towns) is defined in detail; th,)se areas which d') not satisfy this definition are treated as rural areas (villages). The Ulowing places have been treated as urban areas (towm): (I) every'place having a municipality or a cantonment b)ard irrespective of it; population; (2) every other place which had (i) a p pulation of at least 5,00l (ii) at lea>t three-fmrth1 of its mjle working pJpulation engaged m mn-agricultural pursuits, and (iiz) a denSity of pC'pulation of at leas: 400 persons pu sq. km; (3) any ether place OJt falling under the abJVe two categories but which possesses certain distmct characte istic3 tJ q'lllify for its being treated as urban such as its being a project area or a developing township. INTRODUCTION A place is called a village if it does not satisfy any of the criteria prescribed above for it!! being treated as urban. A C village' for census purposes in Maharashtra has always been the C revenue village' which isJhe ultimate unit of area in which the State is sub-divided for land revenue administra tion. A few past censmes concerned themsdves cnly with revenue villzges which had some population and Gid not t3ke into accour:t dnuted cr umnrabited rennue vill:lges. As in 1961. a village at the 1971 censuS is a revenue n1l2b'e having well-d{ fined bo undaries. a map and a separate Stt of land records irrefp( c~ive of whet he r that Ct fir: cd area has any pcpulatic n or not and. if it has scme populaticn whether that pcpulaticn f{'Eic'{s in cne lecality (b'30than) or is spread OVer one or more identIfiable clusters d pcpulaticn krcwn as wadis. pacas or mazaras (hamlets). Ea(.h revenue villrge bas a fpecified area mal ked as its own and its boun daries WIth other 3(ljoinirll vilh:ges have al\\ays er-joyed a traditlOr:al sar,ctity. Hamlets do not have such ddir:.ed boundaries or areas distinctly malked or allotted to them; nor do they have any locally recognised status. Revenue villages which do not have any residential population are alw included in the 1971 census definItlon of vill:lges. They figure in the census list but are deEcribed as unin kblted to distJr.gUlfh ttem £Iem the rfmamirg inr.2.bited vill:lges. The cemus cefinition of an uninhabIted vl11~ge ciffers slIghtly frem the rever.Ue c'dinihcn cf vIlkge in that the latter defines an uninhabited village as one having a populatIon of less than 25. I 'Vherever a revenue village situated on the out£kirts of a tewn is wholly or partly merged in that ulban area. it has been treated as a separate villrge. The pcpuJaticn reEicirg,.,in that area which is statutorily melged in t1-.e town limits has bu:n treatt-d 2.S ulb2n pcpulatlen'cfthat town; the residual pepulation. If any, rcsidlrg in the area cutfice the limits cf the tewn is alone treated as the population of that VIllage. Thus, a few partly merged villages have returned some populations. The population for all fully merged villages has bem treated as urban population. While the 1971 census village is thus completely identified with the revenue village. forest villages make an exception. Theyare population centres situated within reserved forest areas. Thelt population consists mainly of forest labourers and their families. Most of them are ptrmantnt or semi-permal1lnt lecalities and may have attached cultivated areas leased out by the forest department under certain conditions. The land recerds of such villages are not maintained by the revenue department. The census list of villages also includes all inhabIted forest villages. Tahsilwis':! aJphab~tical lists of all villages and tow03 are printed in a selnrate section which precedes Part A.