CENSUS OF INDIA 1951 NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT ViLLAGE-WISE MOTHER.TONGUE DATA FOR BORDER TALUKS BY J. I. ARPUTHANATHAN, B.A., R.L., Superintendent of Census Operations, Madras PRINTED BY THE BUPERINTEN:DENt GOVERNMENT PRESS MADRAS 1955 VILLAGE.WISE MOTHER· TONGUE DATA FOR BORDER TALUKS. NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. NOTE. The statements appended give figures in respect of were received in the Regional.Tabulation office con­ the prineipal mother-t(ln~ue lang?ages for eac~ c.~nslls cerned for being sorted there for arriving at the ~gures Ullit (village or town) m Gud1ynttam, Wa.laJ,.pet, for the prescribed district tables, The census ~~t ~as Arkonam snd Tiruppat tur taleks of Nortb .Arcot either a village or a panchayat or a mUnIcipality district of th(' Madras ~)tate situated on the borders inclusive of all hamlets or other villages comprised of the Andhra State. in each. The slips relating to each rural census unit 2. The figures bave been gathe!'3d by. me at the were in separate bundles. In the case of census towns and cities the slips relating to each ward of the census infltanc0 of the Government, of lnella wh) III consnlta­ town or city kept distinct, In. the Tabulation Iiion with the State Governments concerned instruc~ed we~'e me to rrather the figures from the census enumeratIOIl office, the slips relating to each rural unit and mban slips orthe 1951 Census which had 1een dep()Ritc(l for ward were examined s,nd the slips relating to displaced safe custody in the offices of the CoUe,..tors of the persons were separated. A 10 per cent sample was districts concerned. extracted from the rest of the slips. The remaining go per cent slirs which were called "~enera~ slip~ " 3. The 1951 Census tables relating.tn :nl)ther-tongue were kept distinct. These three categones of slIps, VIZ., languages give 'lnly fi.gu~es for the dlSt~'lct as a whob. GeneraL Sample and Displaced persons, were thcn The figures for the dIstrIct were com[1l1ed from those operated upon independently and village-wise popu~a­ ga'theted for subdivitiions of distri'Jts ca!led ". C:~sus tion data in respect of rural areas and ward-wIse . Tracts" . ' These census tracts are convement divlslons population data in respect of the cities and tuwns of the of the district adopted for facilitating the work of urban areas were gathered with break up for sex sorting the 1951 ConsH8 I'llUmeration slips and compila­ categories and the eight livelihood classes prescribed tion of the required statistics.. I~1 forming the ?e~sus in the Tabulation Plan. After obtaining the popula­ tracts the rurai areas ')f each dIstnct were kept dl,Stl~ct tion figures for each village/ward tho enumeration from the urban areas. The rural areas of each dIstl'lC,~ slips relating to tho units in each census tract were were divided into a number of units called H Rural thrown together for sorting for tract-wise details Traots ,. and the urban areas were divided into a requimd for the several pres,cribed C:llSUS tables., The number of units called ,e Urban Tracts ". As far as identity of the bundles of shps relatmg to each VIllage, , possiblE' the r~:~':)Jl areas of each taluk were constituted panchayat and municipality was lost and the groups of into a single rural tract. The y:ban tracts were forDl~d bundles wero merged into the i< Census Tract". The out of the areas declared f.S CItles arld census towns In distinction between the General slips, Sample slips each district. Every city \-vas treated as a separate and those relating to Displaced persons were, however, bract and was called a" City Tract". TOlvns other than maintained throughout. At the close of the sorting cities were grouped together to form" Non-City Urban operationR, the cenSUR slips relati~ to each tract. as Tracts." Wherever possible the towns otber than distributed and bundled for tho last Item of the sortmg t'ities in each taluk were maue into a single" l<on-City operations were preserved intact under each of the Urban Tract". In cases where the towns in a taluk had three categories, General slips, Sample slips and slips a total population of less than 50,000, the towns in relating to Displaced persons. The bundles of slips more than one taluk were grouped together to form a relating to the censu, tracts in each district were put in non-city urban tract. For example, in the Chiugleput boxes or gunny bags, sealed and transferred to the district, the towns in the taluks of Ponneri, Tiruvallur Collector's office concerned for safe custody there. It and Sriperumbudur, viz., Pulicat, Ami and Ponneri in is from these slips that the present mother-tongue Ponneri taluk, Tiruvallur in Tiruvallur bluk, Sriperum­ language figures for each unit (village or town) in each budur, Poonamallee and Kunrathur in Sriperumbudur bordcr taluk have been collected. The procedure taluk were constituted into a single Non-City Urban adopted by me is briefly indicat,ed below. Tract; whereas the towns in Saidapet taluk consisting of Tiruvottiyur, Villivakkam, Alandur, Pallavaram, 5, Before the slips relating to the tracts in the St. Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram C<tntonment and border taluks were transported back to my office 'l'ambaram were put into a single Non-City Urban Tract. from the Collector's office where they were held in 4. ljnder the TabI1111,tion Plan of 1951 Census, the safe custody, I or one of my Gazetted A~sis~ants :enumeration slips of all census units in each district personally went to the Collector's office, satIsfied ii himself that the seals on the boxes or -gUIll1Y bags were one village had in a few cases mixed up the slips relating intact, checked also that the bundles kept inside to a portion Of a block of one village with those of the each box or gunny bag were in accordance with other village with the result that they were sorted with the list of contents of the box kept inside it by the the slips relating to the latter village. This defect Tabulation office, resealed them and had them has been set right at the present sorting. In an such transported to my office. On their receipt in my cases I have taken care to arrive at the correct figures office, the slips relating to each tract were first counted by a reference to the National Register of Citizens to find out if the total number of slips agreed with the relat.ing to the llnit~. total of the population figures of the tract originally In some cases the enumerators had omitted to mark obtained and recorded. Care was also taken to the code numb.er of the vi~lage on some of the slips. verify with reference to the code numbers of the taluks In most cases, It was possIble to locate the village to mentioned on the slips, ifthr: slips relating to any other which they related either by reference to the hand­ tract were mixed up with those of the tract to which writing on the slips, or by reference to the name of the the slips purported to relate. village, entered on many of them against the answer to question 10 (Means of Livelihood and place of work), Regular sorting for language figures was commenced In every case the identification was got confirmed by a only thereafter. The operations consisted of two reference to the relevant Nat,ional Register of Citizens. stages. At the first stage the slips were sorted out Where such identification could not be secured the for the units in the tract, viz., Villll,g88, panchayllltR Il,nd slips were treated I:(,i) unidentifiable and shown as such municipalities. This sorting was done with reference in the statements appended. to the location code number of the village entered at the top of each slip. The number of slips representing 8. The total of the language figures obtained at the the population figure thus obtained in respect of present sorting in respect of the units in the rural each village or pancha.yat or municipal town was tracts when compared with those arrived at at the 1951 compared with the population figure of the same sorting for tho same rural tracts showed some varia­ village, panchayat or municipal town obtained at the tions. Suc~ co:uparison iIi respec~ of figures relating original census sorting in order to ensure that the slips to urban umts m a taluk now obtamed is not possible of each village were all available. The sorting for vil­ as only "tract" figures were compiled at the 1951 lages thus made was checked cent per cent by persons Census and not figures for urban units in a taluk and as specially appointed as Compiler-checkers. A fair already pOin:ed o.ut in parag;aph 3 supra a non~city percentage of the work done by the sorters and urban tract mvanably comprIsed towns in more than Compiler-checkers was also checked by me and by one taluk. The reason for the difference in the rural my two Deputy Superintendents. tracts is this ;- 6. At the second stage of sorting the slips relating In some cases the enumerator had omitted to to each village, panchayat or municipality were sorted mark against the appropriate question the symbol out for the principal mother-tongue languages of the relating to the mother-ton~le language of the indivi­ taluk. The slips relating to persons with languages dual represented by tho slip.