CENSUS 1971 SERIES 2 ANDHRA PRADESH DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK ANANTAPUR PART X-A VILLAGE & TOWN DIRECTORY PART X-B VILLAGE & TOWN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT T. VEDANTAM 01' THE INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE DIRECTOR OF CENSUS OPERATIONS ANDHRA PRADESH PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH 1973 SRi SATYA SAl ARTS AND SCIENCE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN AT ANANTAPUR The motif on the cover page depicts the Sri Satya Sai Arts Pradesh with a spacious auditorium, a rich library and good and Science College for Women at Anantapur. science laboratories. It is the first of its kind for women Anantapur district had been famous for its erudite scholars established with a mission to develop the students into even from the ancient times as several institutions like Vidya­ responsible citizens by blending the ancient Indian culture and mandapams, Mathas and Ashramams were established and modern scientific thought in the educational system and to maintained by the great Jain and Saiva Acharyas to impart train its alumni to be 'worthy mothers'. traditional education and knowledge. Madakasira and Hindu­ The coJlege is managed by the Satya Sai Trust founded by pur taluks were famous for such education in the early days. Sri Satya Sai Baba. It aims at evolving a system of national In medieval times also education was disseminated by locating education in India which may result in a society built on love educational institutions in 'Ramanuja Kritams' and 'Dargas' in and co-operation, through the observance of the ancient Kadiri and Madakasira taluks. In the modern period also, the philosophy of life - Satya, Dharma and Shanti. Sri Baba says growth of western education in the district was significant due "Students have to attend schools and colleges in order to to various educational Despatches and Charters by the then cultivate discipline, control emotions and canalise passions. British Government and due to the efforts of various Christian Learning is just a small fraction of what can be gained from Missionaries. The schools of the type existing now were started schools and colleges. They instill into the pupils the lessons in the district early in eighteen hundred sixties. The first of mutual co-operation, good manners, courtesy, compassion Secondary School for girls in the district was established in 1920 and comradeship, adjustment to limitations and overcoming of at Anantapur. The "Woods Despatch" of 1854 had a great obstacles with calm deliberation". In a country like ours with impact on the spread of western education with the help of a vast area and many languages and religions, national integra­ private institutions. In 1916, the Government Arts College at tion cannot be achieved unless the individuals develop their Anantapur, known as "The Ceaded Districts College" was integrated personalities through proper education. Three opened t(\ serve the needs of collegiate education in the Rayala­ colleges have been established so far at Anantapur (only for seema districts. Under the Post-war Reconstruction Scheme, women), Bangalore and Jaipur by Sri Satya Sai Baba, to the Government Engineering College, Anantapur was establish­ achieve this objective. Students belonging to all religions are ed in 1946. It was temporarily located at Madras and shifted admitted into these colleges. to Anantapur in 1948. Later, the Oil Technological Research Institute meant not only for training students in oil technology, These colleges are managed by eminent educationists and but also to tackle different problems connected with oil seeds, they are like our ancient "Gurukulas" housed in modern oils, oil cakes, soaps, detergents, paints, varnishes, fatty acids, buildings. The Women's College at Anantapur is having 40 lubricants, essential oils, oil modified plastics etc., started teachers and 600 students. The college imparts instruction functioning at Anantapur from 1951. In 1965-66 another Arts both ill Arts and Science subjects just as in other Degree and Science College was established at Hindupur of this Colleges. Telugu, Sanskrit and Hindi languages are taught district. and the students are prepared for the Intermediate, B.A., B.Sc., Examinations. Philosophy is one of the elective subjects being However, there was no Arts and Science College exclusively taught to Degree students. The college maintains good for women in this arid and dry region. Sri Satya Sai Baba, the standards. well known saint of Puttaparti fulfilled this dire need by found­ ing the Sri Satya Sai Arts and Science College for women in the Though there had been considerable development of year 1968. It was temporarily located in the Government Girls' educational facilities in the district from decade to decade, only High School campus and was shifted in the year 1971 to the 35% of the males and 12% of the females in this distr ict are present permanent buildings, with a reposeful campus of about literate and educated according to the 1971 Census. This 32 acres, constructed at a cost of about Rs. 40lakhs. The indicates the enormous efforts yet to be made for spread of college is one of the biggest colleges for women in Andhra lIteracy by public and private agencies. r PREFACE The District Census Handbooks which were first published at the 1951 Census proved to be very useful to the State and Central Government Departments, private agencies and academic bodies like Universities and Research Institutions. The scope of these Handbooks was enlarged to make them more useful during the 1961 Census. Considering the delay in the publication of the Hand­ books due to difficulties in finding suitable presses which could undertake huge printing work of this kind, it was considered desirable to split up the 1971 Census Handbooks into three parts viz., Part A­ Village and Town Directory, Part B - Village and Town Primary Census Abstract and Part C­ Analytical Report, Departmental Statistics and District Census Tables. This was done mainly with a view to publishing Parts A and B which contain not only the population data upto the village and town level but also the particulars about the basic amenities etc., available in the towns and villages, as early as possible for public use. The scope and contents of these three parts are elaborated in the introduction to this volume. I am glad to record here that Parts A and B of the 1971 Census Handbooks of all the 21 districts in the State have been finalised already and I expect that before the end of 1974 Parts A and B for all the 21 districts would have been published. The compilation of these Handbooks is being done from the 1951 Census in the Office of the Director of Census Operations while the cost of paper, printing, etc., required for these volumes is being borne by the State Government. The Andhra ~Pradesh State Government readily agreed to bear the cost of printing and paper for the 1971 Census Handbooks. I am grateful to the Andhra Pradesh State Government and in particular to the Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of Andhra Pradesh, Sri S. A. Quader, lAS., for their co-operation and encouragement. I am thankful to the Director of Printing, Government of Andhra Pradesh for assisting me by selecting suitable presses for undertaking the printing of the Handbooks. The data presented in the Village and Town Directories are obtained from different State Government and Central Government Departments but for whose co-operation Part-A of the Handbooks could not have been compiled. I am thankful to all of them for furnishing me the required data. I am extremely grateful to Shri A. Chandra Sekhar, lAS., Registrar General, India and , Dr. B.K. Roy Burman, Deputy Registrar General, India who formulated the contents of these Handbooks in detail and rendered spontaneous help and encouragement to me at all stages. The following staff of my office worked on the present volume of Anantapur District Census Handbook under the guidance and supervision of Shri P. S. R. Avadhany, Deputy Director of Census Operations and Sri K. Narasimha Murthy, Assistant Director of Census Operations of my office. Sri B. P. Sunder Raj, Tabulation Officer 1 Smt. P. Lalitha, Tabulation Officer I Drafting, Scrutiny and Sri T. Brahmiah, Statistical Assistant ~ Supervision of Printing " T. Govardhana Rao, Statistical Assistant f " K. V. Sharma, Statistical Assistant ) Kum. N. Suseela, Computor I Sri G. V. Ramachandran, Computor " S. Ramakrishna, Assistant Compiler Compilation Kum. Anasuya, Assistant Compiler Jt Sri M. B. Vittala Charya, Junior Reader, G.C.P. 1 " K. Ram Reddy, Junior Reader, G.C.P. ;r Proof Reading ii Sri A. Venkateswara Rao, Assistant Compiler Scrutiny and Supervision of maps printing Sri M. N. Ram Mohan, Artist Supervision of Mapping Work Sri Syed Ahmed, Senior Draughtsman " M. J. Sadiq, Draughtsman .. N. G. Swamy, Draughtsman .. M. Hassan, Draughtsman " M. Shankaraiah, Draughtsman Preparation of maps " Md. Yakub Ali, Draughtsman ., B. Raghu Ram, Draughtsman , Smt. Daya Saxena, Draughtsman Sri D. Koteshwara Rao, Computor J I am grateful to their services. I trust that this humble effort on the part of the Census Organisation would meet with the appreciation it deser'"'!s. T. VEDANTAM Director of Census Operations CONTENTS Pages Introduction 1-4 PART A - VILLAGE AND TOWN DIRECTORY SECTION I - VILLAGE DIRECTORY Explanatory N ote-Village Directory 5-11 Village Directory: Anantapur Taluk 13-19 Kalyandrug Taluk 21-27 Rayadrug Taluk 29-35 Uravakonda Taluk 37-41 Gooty Taluk 43-49 Tadpatri Taluk 51-57 Dharmavaram Taluk 59-63 Kadiri TaJuk 65-73 Penukonda TaJuk 75-81 Hindupur