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CENSUS OF INDIA 1951 PEPSU District Census Hand-books Volume No.2 .DISTRICT BARNALA· 'Compiled and Published .... ~. UNDER The authority of Pepsu Government. BlMt..A Printed at HimaUa Freas, Simla. Phone:- 3027 INDEX OF REFE~ENCE DISTRICT .BARNALA 8. BOo OQl)~ll~ J. P.reface Introdttcti~, Physical Aspects i 'f:'ueoogy' J " ib Archaeology ib Climate ii Rainfall ib History ib • Population Administration Medical and 'public'Healtb i'll , Educa~ion and Literacy ,. I ib Agriculture I Co-operation ib• Industries ! j' "II" ... Local Bodies and Panchay~ v Rehabilitation of Diiplaced Persons . ib Places of Interest Stat£~~t Explaining the Tables 4 A-Ii Area, Houses and Population 2 (> A-I\ Variation in Population during fifty yeari~, 3 A:-III Town. and' Villages classified by PopulatioI t . .. A-IV Towns classffied by Population with Variation Since 1901 7 f' • A-V Town Arranged Territorially with Population of Livelihood Classes 11 B-1 ,.Livelihood .- Ciasses and Sub-Classet (Total Population) 2 Livelihood Classes and Sub-Classes (Displaced Population) 6 S. No. Contents. PalelNo B-II Secohdary means of Livelihood lTotal Population) 10 ... ·Secondary means of Livelihood (Displaced Population) 32 r \ , B-III Employers, Employees and Independant Workers (Total P0puhtion) ; 52 .. Employers, Employees and Independant workers (Displaced 76 Population) C-I I Livelihood Classes by Age Groups 2 C-III Age and Civil condition 16 Age and Civil condition (Displaced Population) ~ rrIV Age and Literacy (Sample) 29 C-IV Age and Literacy (Displaced Population) 34 C-:V' Single year Age returns (Sample) .$ D-It Religion 2 D-IIY . Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes 3 D-IV Migrants 4 D-IV' Subsidiary 5 D - V' Displaced Persons by District of Origin and Date of Arrival in India 9 I D-VI Non-Indian. Nationals D-VII Livelihood Classes by Educational Standards .7"~ E- ; Summary Ficures District Index Sorter's Ticket No.2 Primary Census Abstract~ . imall Scale Induitri~ The District ,Census ;rt~P4pq~.~ i~~:_coJl~B~a of i1ne~Jfollowing & data:.- ' 1. Introduction whi<?b,.rleal§'Wttll ub(({ollijm'fiQ: i'Ver'lls ,-. (a) P;h'y,sic~l A~p.e(lts. (b) Geology. (~1 ArchaeojogYt. (a) Ciirnate. (e) Rain Fall . .<£) ,:a~o~~- (g) Population. (h) Adrninistrati{, ..... ' . (i) Medical and Public Health,." (1) Educat~on and Literacy .. (k) Agriculture anq.·.Qq"9R~JP~i~. (I, ~,1~~~,.{ (m) Local BodieL. (n) l!ehabilit~tion of Displaced Persons. (0) P~aces' of Interest. • ~l} .~~~trj,c1J .c~.Q~1}!lll_J.'f)bt~s .I1ilHflilhing ~istrict data with break up for Census Tracts, within the district}. In CRse of Bar~ala. District there are 4 Tahsil Rural Tracts (Barnala. Phool, Dhuri and j.v.Ialerkotla Tahsils) and one District 13arrrala No~-City Urban Tract. 'there are the following tables for the Barnala District :- A-I Area, houses and population. A-II Variation in population d~ring fifty years. A-III Towns and villages classified by popuiation A-IV Towns classified 'by population with variation since 1901. • A-V Towns arranged territorially with population by livelihood classes. B-I Livelihood classes .ana sub-classes. B-1I I Secondary means of livelihood. B-III Employers, employees and lndependent workers. C·Il Li velihood Classes by age group. e-III '" Age·and'.Cfvii CbIiditia1·; C-IV Age and lite1;acy. O-V Sjng1t yeal,' ~ge return. D- II Religion. D-III Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. D·IV Migrants a.nd Subsidiary. D-V Displaced persons by district of ong-Ill, and date of arrival in India. .. D·VI Non-Indian Nationals., D-VII Livelihood classes by ed\lcational.stahdaMs. E. Summary figures by districts .. District Index·. Sorter's Ticket 2 '3. Census Abstracts :- (I) Primary Censm AbstractS1 _ (is) Census Abstracts of Small Scale Ind1istri~s. 'LAKSHMi .CHANDRA VAsHISHTA .. INTRODUCTION .... ~ j ,,! >l .- Dist:t;i~.tIBarnaI~. Physical Aspects. {a1 N arne ard derivation., The present~day Barnala djstrict comprises the erstwhile Malerkotla State, 11 part of erstwhile Patiala a'Q.d Nab4~' State and some:area'transferred to' 'it, ft9m 'th-e Dud h:iana qistrict (40!villttge~ cGVe~~ng'an area: of i2t1-.63 'squate'miles), I T4e distriCt t'a~~s;ils tlit.tn~ from.~ts'headquarters· town Barnala,-'-"'refonnded>:lll ·l122JbyO£a.~ A~a Slirgh, (Raja: of Patiala, it rerr1A.lhdd' tliel capita1 oft thi~t~te "nutll the foundation of the town of Patiala in 1763, and the heart1lsrof \1~ ~Q,\pfd~l' are. still J:evered, by ;pe.ople.''' I '(b) "Bounrlaries; rind' area. 'Tli~ ~tricp' i&'b<;mndeq -ap belo~ :- North Juudhiana 'district: South Bhatinda and Sangrur di~trict~. ,East' .•. P~iala arid, Fatehg&'rh; &i4iQr.e.-is,tri«p,. :,,"rest' , ... lBhatiooa' d'istttct~ '" . " . _." The distri6t is f?itu~te,d between, "30~ 00' 40" and (g'Qo ~tl"5btl Nqrth,and 75° 06' 30" arid"i6"" 07' 55"'Ea~t." I' 1 ... ' , Ith'ate~ ~c.cpidi~~ ,tq A1pe'Sutvey; Qf: 'i~dl~. DfPa.rtip.erit'~ c~~~ to. ~39:4.1 ~~u~r~ lAves; l ~s pOJ?ul~ti?:il) ac?ot~irit 't,b ~l~ ._P~~s~~ C~nsus, lias 1;>e?n :!o;uqq. ~tol .bf 5,3?7_2~:~er1io.n~ ... .Ii ~{5.~ 'tH,e ppl;re}ff :Vlew of PopulflotlOn It stands 3rd,'8.nd f~om the PO~Ilt' ·~f ~leW df ·\ire! It stand~ 5th" among' tlfe eight' disttit5t& of. t\lfe P.ftbi~lalh.nd East Plllljab',S~at~s Union. , The eritir.e ':ar~~ is an ·3;llu~ial .plain withQut·~y river or streams. i'n it. The soil of. .the eastern 'part is' Idan"t}l while as one proceeds to the west the lsoi:l ,gei!s mo~e and 'mor.e sandy. I 'Peo)9gy. There 'is .po importance of th~ a~ea f~om the ~eotogi'ca:} point of rView~ .1 . , Archaeology. I .. £arnala has an old fort buHt in the 'fornt ~ oihile Bur rop.~tted by a wall of masonrr w~th' ~ Baoli with": 1~1 s~~ps). sitjIated in front of the' inner1coort1ard of the fort:' ' . r . .A1; Malerkotla,. tb.yre is a mausoleum of Sheikh Sadar-ud-Din, the fQ.under orthe Kotla ramHy of Malerkotla. .. FOOT.Non I :-Page 187, Phulkian States Gazettt!er Vol. XVII-A., 1~04. ii Climate. The clima.te is dry and healthy. Rainfall. The average annual rainfall of the Malerkotla area is 18.72''', Barnala 16.55", Dhuri 19.26" and :Phool 14.72", and as one proceeds towards the west, the rainfall decreases. The af(~a is very productive and fertile on account of the canal irrigation supplied by the .Kotla a~d Bhatinda Br{tnches of the Sirhind Canal. Hi~tory. The history of the area which was previously part of the Patial& State is the same as that 9f the Patiala Dynasty. The founder 'of the _Patiala Dynasty first made Barnala as his capital and it was in 1763 that the town of Patiala was founded and became the new capital. ' The founder of the Kotla Dynasty was Sadar-ud-Din and the history of Malerkotla area is the same as that of the Malerkopla Dynasty. The area, which 'has been joined to'the Barnala distriQt by transferrin!! it from the Ludhiana district, includes Bagrian. th.,e seat of the chief known as the Bhai of Bagrian. Population. The popUlation of the district, as ascertained during the 1951 Census, comes to 536,728 persons, out of whom 293,511 are males and 243,217 females The dis.trict has accommodated~ 22,414 displaced p~rsons including 12,153 males and 10,261 female~ The district density comes to 411 persons per ~qua,re mile. The most densly populated tahsil of Malerkotla. has its density af? 581. Dhuri with a deitsity of 404 comes next while Phool aJ,;l.d :Sarnara have 352 and 355 respectively as their densities. " The livelihood pattern of the populati(;m is as below :- N arne of livelihood 'clas.~. Population. I. Cultivators of land wholly or mainly owned and their dependants. .. 256,523 II. Cultivators of land wholly or mainly unowned and their dependants. m~,I1& III.- Cultivating labourers and their dependats .... 54,0811 IV. Non-cultivating owners of lanel, agricultural rent receivers and their dependants. 21,373 V. Production other than cllitivation. 61,43~ VI. Commerce. 42777 VII. Transport. 29,159 VIII. Other services and miscellaneous sources. 38,26B Total 536,728 iii Out of the total population, 424,836, persons live III the rural areas and 111,892 in the urban areas. Adminii;tration. The, administration of the district is run by the Deputy Commissioner with his,headquarters at BarnaLa. He is assisted by an Assistant ComfJl\l::fSioner, Tahsildars; each incharge of a tahsil) Naib Tahsildars, Kanungos and Patwaris. The Sub-Divisional Officer Malerkotla is incharge of the Malerkotla Sub-Division. There is one District and Sessions Judge, one Additional District and Sessions Judge and one Additional District Magistrate at Barnala In addition to this, there are 5 ~ub-Judges·cum-Uagistrates, 2 at Barnala, one at Dhuri, one at Phool and 1,at Malerkotla. The Superintendent of Police, aSSIsted by Assistant Superinten~ dents of Police and an Assist-ant Superintendent of Police, in charge Anti-dacoity Staff, Inspectors of Police, Sub-Inspectors of' Police, Assistant Sub-Inspectors of Police, a number of Head Constables and Constables help3 the Daputy Commissioner in the maintenance of law and order in the district The District and Sessions Judge is the Judicial Head (both ci vil and criminal)l in the district. The other Officers who function at the district headJ quarters are the Civil SurQ'eon, D~visional Inspector of Schools, Divisional I:t;ls,[>ectress of Schools, the Distriqt Inspector of Schools, tEe Executive Engineer, the District Food and Civil Supplies Officer, Assistant, Inspeytor of> Agriculture-, the Assist1;lnt Registrar Co; opera~ive Societie~ and the Public Prosecutor.