PRG. 76 (N) 3,080 CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 VOLUME II ANDHRA PRADESH PART II-A GENERAL POPULATION TABLES A. CHANDRA SEKHAR OF THE INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE Superintendent of Census Operations, Andhra Pradesh 1963 Pric.:RIS.aSap or 13.h8d or S 2.11e 1961 CENSUS PUBLICATIONS, ANDHRA PRADESH (All the Census Publications of this State will bear Vol. No. II) PART I rGeneral Report (with Sub-parts) ... ~ Report on Vital Statistics LSubsidiary Tables PART II rGeneral Population Tables (with Sub-parts) •.. ~ Economic Tables LCultural and Migration Tables PART III Household Economic Tables PART IV Housing Report and Tables PART V Special Tables for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes PART VI Village Survey Monographs PART VII-A Handicraft Survey Reports and Tables PART VII-B Fairs and Festivals PART VIII Administration Reports I (Not for - Enumeration and Tabulation j sale) PART IX Maps PART X Special Report on Hydcrabad City t PUBLISHED BY THE MANAGER OF PUBLICATIONS, DELHI-8. PRINTED AT THE CITIZEN PRESS, SECUNDERABAD, ANDHRA PRADESH CONTENTS PAGES INTRODUCTION i-viii TABLE A-I FLY LEAF TO TABLE A-I 1-13 UNION TABLE A-I - AREA, HOUSES AND POPULATION 14-16 STATE TABLE A-I - AREA, HOUSES AND POPULATION 17-38 FLY LEAF TO APPENDIX I TO TABLE A-I 39 APPENDIX I TO TABLE A-I - Statement showing the 1951 Territorial Units constituting the present set-up of each district and taluk of Andhra Pradesh and details of net area gain or loss in the changed Territories during the decade 1951-1961 40-50 SUB-APPENDIX TO APPENDIX I - Statement showing the area for 1951 and 1961 of those Municipal Towns which have undergone chan­ ges in area since 1951 51 FLY LEAF TO APPENDIX II TO TABLE A-I 53 APPENDIX II TO TABLE A-I - Number of Villages with a Population of 5,000 and over and Towns with a Population under 5,000 54-57 LIST A TO APPENDIX II - Places with a Population of under 5,000 trea­ ted as Towns for the first time in 1961 58 LIST B TO APPENDIX II - Places with a Population of under 5,000 in 1951 which were treated as Towns in 1951 but have been omitted from the list of Towns in 1961 - 58 FLY LEAF TO APPENDIX III TO TABLE A-I 59 APPENDIX III TO TABLE A-I - Houseless and Institutional Population 60-74 TABLE A-n FLY LEAF TO TABLE A-II 75-81 TABLE A-II - VARIATION IN POPULATION DURING SIXTY YEARS (1901-1961) . 82-85 APPENDIX TO TABLE A-II-Statement showing 1951 Population accord­ ing to their Territorial jurisdiction in 1951, changes in Area and Population involved in those changes 86-88 TABLE A-Ill FLY LEAF TO TABLE A-III 89-97 UNION TABLE A-III - VILLAGES CLASSIFIED BY POPULATION 98-99 STATE TABLE A-III - VILLAGES CLASSIFIED BY POPULATION. • 100-116 ii TABLE A-IV FLY LEAF TO TABLE A-IV 117-123 TABLE A-IV - TOWNS (AND TOWN-GROUPS) CLASSIFIED BY POPULATION IN 1961 WITH VARIATION SINCE 1901 124-155 APPENDIX I TO TABLE A-IV - New Towns added in 1961 and Towns in 1951 declassified in 1961 ',,' 156-157 EXPLANATORY NOTE A TO APPENDIX I - Showing names of New Towns treated as such for the first time in 1961 Census and the names of their constituent villages , • < 158 EXPLANATORY NOTE B TO APPENDIX I - Showing names of 1951 Census Towns that have been declassified in 1961 Census and the names of the constituent villages into which they have relapsed 159-160 APPENDIX II TO TABLE A-IV -' Statement showing the constituent villages of each of the Towns at 1961 Census. 161-172 PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT FLY LEAF TO PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT 173-191 UNION PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT 192-203 STATE PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT . 204-276 ANNEXURES ANNEXURE I - Houselist and Instructions for filling up the Houselists 278-282 ANNEXURE II - Household Schedule and Instructions for filling up the Household Schedules 283-287 ANNEXURE III - Individual Slip and Instructions for filling up the slips 288-294 ANNEXURE IV - Census Calendar from March 1959 to April 1961 295-296 ANNEXURE V - Other speCial features of 1961 Census 297-299 MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS MAP - ANDHRA PRADESH-ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS Frontispiece MAP - ANDHRA PRADESH-DISTRIBUTION OF I,RURAL AND URBAN ROPULATION, 1961 . ~ After page viii MAP - ANDHRA PRADESH-GROWTH OF POPULATION 1951-61 . J CHARTS-SHOWING DISTjJJCTWISE POfULATrON AND AREA Facing Page 1 GRAPH - SHOWING THE DECENNIAL SEX RATIO FROM 1901 80 " " 8 1· E 83· E ANDHRA PRADESH ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS N STATE CAPITAL .. OIST RIC r H Q ® f ALUI( t1 (2. ZONAL BOUNDARY _____ MAHARASHTRA CjTATE BOUNOAI\Y ... _ •• _u ( WESTER N ZONE) DISTRICT aOUNDARY_._. _ rALUK BOUNDARY ..... KILOMETRES 12 l2 64 " 118 160 1'2 ~~~~~~~ MILES 31 31 118 ORISSA N MADHYA PRADESH (CENTR AL ZONE) N N MADRAS STATE I ,~ .. ~ 'II , A ""'. J: ~ O""UOHTS "" ,U. "rep~rtO U thl Offic~ of thol! Superintand.nt of CenlUl Optf'lltonl. '-nd hn Pudtsh. ~ydll'lba" . INTRODUCTION Introductory: as a dwelling, shop, work-shop, factory, or a dwelling in combination with other purposes, or the exact purpose for 1.1. The 1961 Census count was organised between which it was utilised. Then particulars were gathered 10 February 1961 and 5 March 1961 with the aim of present­ about each factory, and work-shop, if any, that may be ing the population data as on 1 March 1961. located in a Census house, regarding the type of production, processing and servicing carried on there and what the 2. Pretest of the Census Schedules: products produced were, the type of power used, and the average number of persons engaged by the unit. Parti­ 2.1. The success of an operation of tMs magnitude depends culars of the material of construction of the wall and the to a very large extent on the care with which the preliminary roof of the Census house were also gathered as also infor­ preparations are made. One of the most essential prepara­ mation if the Census house used wholly or partly as a dwell­ tions was the drafting of a suitable questionnaire which, ing was owned or rented. The number of members of while incorporating all the needed questions, should be each household and the number of rooms under occupation simple and precise enough as to evoke the correct response. were also recorded. Thus the Houselist, quite a unique For the first time in the Census tradition of our country it schedule evolved for this Census, did provide useful and was possible to test out the draft questionnaire in the field hitherto unassembled information on housing-its construc­ before it was finalised. The importance of such a pretesting tion, utilisation, tenure status and pressure of accommoda­ of the population Census Schedules had been recognised tion and, besides, it helped to take a Census of Industrial and stressed by the V.N.O. as well. The Registrar establishments. This Houselist was prepared a few months General, India had drafted a set of Census questionnaires in advance of the actual enumeration in this State as it also after consulting the Planning Commission, Ministries of the helped to provide an easy and reliable basis for the delimita­ Government of India, Chambers of Commerce, Statistical tion of the jurisdictions of Census Enumerators. bodies and other users of the Census data. The draft schedules consisted of (i) the Houselist, (ii) the Household 2.4. The second document viz., Household Schedule had Schedule and (iii) the Individual Slip combined on one large to be filled in by the Census Enumerator during actuai enu­ sheet. The first draft of these schedules together with the meration along with the Individual Slip. It gave information draft instructions for filling them was pretested by the about the household as a living unit. It recorded particulars Directors of the State Bureaux of Economics and Statistics of cultivation by the household or of the household indus­ in January 1959. On the basis of these pretest reports, tries run by the household, which were important pointers the Registrar General drew up a second draft of these in judging the household economy of our country. On the schedules and instructions and it was again pretested by reverse side of the Schedule referred to as Part II, certain Superintendents of Census Operations of the various States basic particulars about each member of the household were in the actual field. This second pretest was almost a dress­ copied out from the Individual Slips. Part II of the Schedu)e rehearsal of the final Census Operations. Representative also called the "Population Record" replaced the "National localities of the different regions of the State were selected Register of Citizens" evolved during 1951 Census which for the pretest, so that experience could be gained in all was written up after enumeration was over. the different areas. In this State the second pretest enume­ ration was conducted between 15 July 1959 and 30 August 2.5. The third but the all important schedule is the Indi­ 1959 in 7,538 households of which 3,521 were rural and vidual Slip containing 13 questions. Small but significant 4,017 urban. changes were effected from the past Census Schedules, while formulating the questionnaire of the Individual Slip. The 2.2. After the completion of pretesting, the first conference need for comparison with past Censuses was kept in view, of all the State Superintendents of Census Operations was and the questions were designed having due regard to the called by the Registrar General towards the end of Sep­ needs of the present day.