CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 VOLUME XXVII GOA, DAMAN AND DIU PART ll-A GENERAL POPULATION TABLES JOSE C. ALMEIDA Superintendent of Census Operations, Goa, Daman & Diu CO NT! NTiS PAGES INTRODUCTION . 1-25 A-I AREA, HOUSES ANO POPULATION 27-44 Flyleaf 29-39 Union Table A-I 40 State Table A-I . 41-42 Appendix I-Statement showing 1950 territorial units constituting the present set-up of Goa, Daman and Diu 43 Appendix II Number of villages with a population of 5,000 and over and towns with population under 5,000 43 List A-Places with a population of under 5,000 treated as towns for the first time in 1960 43 List B-Places with a population of under 5,eOO which were treated as toWns in 1950 but have been omitted from the list of towns in 1960 44 Appendix III-Houseless and Institutional Population 44 A-II VARIATION IN POPULATION DURING SIXTY YEARS 45-49 Flyleaf 47-48 Table A-II 49 Appendix-Union Territory and districts showing 1950 population according to their territorial jurisdiction in 1950, changes in area and population involved in those changes 49 A-III VILLAGES CLASSIFIED 'BY POPULATION 51-58 Flyleaf 53-55 Union Table A-III 56-57 State Table A·III .1 56-57 Appendix-Villages classified into four broad size groups of population 58 A-IV TowNs AND TOWN GROUPS CLASSIFIED BY POPULATION IN 1960 WITH VARIATION SINCE 1900 59-65 Flyleaf 61-63 Table A·IV 64 Appendix.-New townS added in 1960 and towns in 1950 declassified in 1960 65 Explana tory Note A-Showing consti tituen ts of new toWns in 1960. Census 65 PR.IMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT .\ 67-115 Flyleaf 69-79 Union Primary Census Abstract 80-83 Primary Census Abstract 84-115 ANN£XURES. 117-149 MAPS Goa, Daman & Diu Goa Ilhas Taluka Salsete Taluka Bardez Taluka Mormugao Taluka Ponda Taluka Bicholim Taluka Pernem Taluka Quepem Taluka Sanguem Taluka Canacona Taluka Satari Taluka Daman Diu ~----~----------------------~~--------------------'~7~6o----1 I ! o 20 " A 5 A Ahmodnogo. 6 C'• ...-""',.... _, \ . ,J . """ ,-v r . 0 Bijopur UNION TERRITORY OF ". 16 GOA, DAMAN & DIU LOCATION MAP MILES 50 25 0 50 100 ,00 $0 o 50 100 r5'0 iNS o LIGaNO Shimogo Rood ...... - •• fer. .... 4It .. ~ Roi,wClY Lint·.. - ....... '0 _ State Boundary ........... _._._ ~------------~ M.BASu INTRODUCTION Briel Historical Sketch of' Population Census of' Diu was made, which unfortunately met with the same Goa, Daman and Diu fate as the previous one, due to the short time fixed to proceed with the respective operations; it was impossible I. The practice of the authorities to find the aggre­ to put into practice the procedures outlined in the gate number and demographic, social and economic Order No. 20 of the 20th February, 1878, as is confessed characteristics of the people they governed by ordering in the preamble to the Order of the Government-Gene­ the periodic and progressive census operations of ~al No. 580 of the loth September, 1880. Otherwise, it Goa, Daman and Diu dated back to the remote time. IS Mr. Cristovam Pinto himself who, in his report clari­ , ) fies that having noted during the course of the finali­ The first volume containing the details of popula­ sation of results an anomally in the partial results, a tion census which is available to us relates to the new Census was ordered by the then Governor-General census of Goa, Daman and Diu taken on the 17th of the State of India (b), Mr. Caetano Alexandre de February, 1881. It is published by the Statistics Almeida ae Albuquerque, which was held on the 17th Section along with a Report by the Head of the Section February, 1881; the date on which the population Mr. Cristovam Patrocinio de Sao Francisco Xavie: Census took place in former British India. Pinto. The results of this Census are embodied, as stated previously, in the well elaborated and illustrated vo­ This report reveals that, at least three previous lume of the Statistics Section, headed by Mr. Cristovam attempts prior to that date were made to hold the Pinto. Census of the population of those areas. It was followed by the Censuses of the population • of Goa, Daman and Diu in the subsequent years, that is, The first attempt to hold the population Census 1887, 1900, 1910, 1921, 1931, 1940, 1950 and 1960, the of Goa, Daman and Diu, was in 1850 the results of genesis of which, it is felt, is advisable to relate in the which could not be known. Howe;er, Table No. follow:ing pa~agraphs to heir the reader to avoid possi­ 142, appended to the volume on the Census of 188 I ble pItfalls III the companson of the statistical series gives o:rtl.y the total legal population as 406,563 inhabi­ along the course of years. tants. ~. The foundation stone or basis for the 1881 po­ It was then, that a second attempt was made to pulatIOn Census operations were the Order of the hold r~gular Census of the population of Goa, Daman Goverment-General No. 580 of the 10th September, and Dm, ordered by the then Overseas Minister 1880 and the Royal Order No. 20 of the 20th February, Mr. Tomas Ribeiro, by his royal Order No. 20 of th~ 1878, the former orders the holding of a new Census of 20th February, 1878, published in the Government the population and the latter outlines the principles Gazette No 50, which enumerated the principles to be relating to its organisation. observed in the organisation of the General Census of the population. All the necessary legislative measures Thus, by Order No. 580 of the loth September, were taken, ~s also others. of a technical nature, chiefly 1880, a District Commission was created, presided over the preparatlOn of househsts and the distribution and by the Governor-General, to guide the work of Census, collection of Family Schedules, but finally all the work under whose orders the Taluk Commissions functioned was nulified, the reasons for which are not known. It is, at the taluk level, to superintend the work of the however, revealed from Table 141, appearing in the Parochial Committees at the Taluk level. cenm~ volume of 188 I, that the total population was 442,883 *. Although, initially, an inventory of the households was contemplated but out the same was not effected and on the occasion of the finalisation of results it On the 15th January, 1880, a third attempt to was considered that each family schedule correspond- take a Census of the population of Goa, Daman and ed to a household. - Footnote :(.) It i. assumed that iti, thelegalpopulationu Mr Crist . (t) Th. Stat. of India compri.ed orth. territories oiGoa °Dvam comNParel the,el~gures ,\"lth tho,. orth. I.cal population obtained for the year IQ81 , aman, agar Have 1 and DIU. 1 The family schedule comprised of the following questions Administration ...•.......•..•.•.••...•.......... Property ....•...••••••..•. Village ...................•.•••.•...•.............. Area .•............•..•... Ward ................................. House No .............•.... List of persons who comprise that family and who passed the night from ................ to ............. ; .. 1880 with that family (This list had to be signed by the person who filled it). Marital StatU! Education Whether Rdigiop- Age Bachelor! you know ,-~-., Serial ,-__--A._----"\ Marriedl Place of to read and Non- No. Name Sexes Yeat·s Months Widower birth write Christian Christian Occupation Remarks The instructions for the Census were distributed in In which P=legal population accordance with Circular Order No. 20 and by Order P' =population enumerated No. 51, of the 18thJanuary, 1881, and 17th February of 1881 was fixed for the general census of Goa, Daman T=transient and Diu so as to synchronize it with the date fixed by A=absent from the pI'ace, but inside the State the then Viceroy (Governor-General) of British India. A'=absent from the place, outside the State Owing to the paucity of competent staff, no fixed time-limits were however fixed for the execution of The "de facto population" was determined by the work of enumerators and of the committees. 'formula; P=P' - A+T The greatest deficiency in this Census was the lack offormulation of precise definitions. This resulted in the representing diversity of concepts adopted for purpose of finalisa.tion of the results, which increased even more the confusion· P=de facto population about the numbers that were finally arrived at. P' = population enumerated A=absent, as such outside the State as from Thus, for example, nothing was clarified regarding the place itself \he ambit of the questions: "Do you know to read and write?" and "Occupation"-neither the hypothesis of duplication of the registration of those absent in the T=Transient State, nor the listing of those absent outside the State was foreseen. The "population enumerated" was considered as the total of the population listed in the family scl}eduJes. And finally, merely to adjust these inexactitudes, Thus PP.R. = residents +'absent (outside the State at t,he time of calculating the final results a greater + confusion was created whilst working out the compi­ temporary) + transient. lations simultaneously in terms of "legal population", '''d, facto population", "population enumerated" and And stili the concept of "general population" even "General Population". the definition of which is not sufficien~ly expressed, but appears to be the same as that of the "population enumerated" . As seen from the report referred to above, the "legal population" was obtained by means of the following formula : The "absentees" were defined as those who did not pass the night at home and the "transients" as strangers P=P'-T+A-A' who, perchance, passed the night there.