Government of Bombay SURAT DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK (Bastd on the 1951 C,,.sus) BOMBA'Y Ii'lIitlNT.lI .6T TIDI J::OllNOOB PBINTlNG PBESS, RAMlI4ARUTI BO~ NOWP~"'. TlUN.... I)btalnabA. from the ~vernment Publlcatlonll Balec Depot, I!;l8tlt~te of &lienee Bulldmc. I"ort, Bombay (for purch&!erl 'in Bombay City), from the Government Book Depot, Chenu Road Garden., Bomba.y • (fot' orders from the mo{ussIl) or througb the High OOmml!JIIIOBn for Inch .. India Houle, Aldwyoh, London, W.O. 2, or through any reoognlzed Bookl!eller. Price-Rs. 2 As. 8 or o4~. S.d. 1112 Showi'D/! Tcf/ulcs qnd Pel" .!Jound41·jes G. ~Z. P_ POON",SZ. CONTENTS .. PAGES. A. General Population Tables. 1\-1 . Area, Houses and Popu].ation A-IIr Towns and Villages classified by Population A-V Towns arranged territorially with population by livelihood classes : •• 10--11 B. Economic Tables. B-1 Livelihood Classes and,SlJb-Classes 12- 19 B-U Secondary Means of Livelih90d > 2{)-2:i B-l11 Employers, Emplo~ees ~nd ihdependent Workers in Industries and ServiGes by Divisions and Sub-Divisions 2ti-67 Index of non-agricultura} occupations in the district '10-77 C. Household and Age (Sample) Tables. C-I Household (Size. and Composition) 78-81 C-II Livelihood Classes by Age Groups 82-Wi C-III Age and Civil Oondition . S6-!J:; C-IV Age and Literacy 9u-ll'i; C-V Single Year Age Returns ... 104-107 D. Social and Cultural Tables. D-I Languages: (i) Mother Tongue lOS-lli (ii) Bilingualism 118-123 D-JI Religion ... 124-J25 D-liI Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes .•• 126-127 D-V (i) Displaced Persons by Year of Arrival 128-129 (ii) Displaced Persons by Livelihood Classes 130-131 D-VI Non-Indian Nationals 13'2-1~3 D-ViI Livelihood Classes by Educational Standard~ 134-137 D-VIII Unemployment by Educational Standards 138-141 E. Summary Figures by Talukas and Petas. Primary CeDsus Abstracts. ... 151-483 Small Seale Industries CeDsus-Employment in Establishments. ... 484-491 1951 DISTRICT. CENSUS HANDBOOK DISTRICT SURAT SuraL district consisted at the time of thc 1951 census of t}le area of the f0rmel' Snrat district of Bombay Province, (except for 2, villages transferred to 'Ka~ik'diBtrict and 3 villages t.ransferred to Dang!! district), with tbe addition of the fOl mel' Indian State~ of Bansda, Sachin and Dharampur, Navsal'i district of the forllJer Baroda State, twellty four village's of Broach district and four villages of Dallgs district. • The disn'ict hall. a.:19lH'·~opulation of, 1.827,642: and an area of 4,499'1 ~q nare miles, accordini tQ .the· area.' figure. furnished. by the Surveyor General of. lndia. This Handbook contains: tables for Sarat di~trict, compiled after the 1951 Census of India. 'l'he '~a'lr~ results of the 1951 Census are embodied in tue State Tables published for the States oE Bombay, Saurashtra and l{utcb. In this Han'dhonk, the data a1'e exhibited in gl'eater detail. The numbers given to tables in this publication correspond to those given in the State Census Report. The followill!( tables for the district have, however, not- been included in this Handbook :- A-II Variation in p·(}pu~·at.iou during fifty ,year~. A-IV Towns classified by:population with variations aiune 190 l. D-IV Migrants. In tbe E-Sllmmary tablr, in this Handbook some columns have been omitted. III the case of the C-series of tables, except C-I, the data were extracted on the basis of a s;>mple count of approximately 10% of the census slips, instead of a fnll C01lDt of all the slips. The Col tahle was prepared from a four percent saw pIe of the households recorded in the National Register of Citizens relating 1 () eilch to W Il or vi llag-e. ln 1941, the population figures were exhibited according to commnnit\es in the ,'·Vi.llll~e H;tnsibooks" publi3hed by the Government of Bombay. In 1951, the basis of·claBsiIicatjon at the (Jensus was changed from a social to. an economic one, and the fiJ.{ures for.. vi1la~es given in the Primal'Y' Census Ab~tract8 and in tables A-V, B-1. BDII, c·n and E are acctlfding to tile following eight LiVelihood OJ~sses:- Agricultural Classes T Cultivators of land, wholly or maillly owned; and their dependants. 11 Cultivators' of land, wholly Or mainly unowned; and their dependants. III Culti vating labourers: and their depend'ants. 1 V N on-cultivating owners of land; agricultural rent fPceivers; and their df'pendants. Non-Agricultural ClasseB Persons (including dependants) who derive their principal means of liveli­ hood frmn :- V Production other than cultivation. VI Commer,e. VI I Transport VIIl Other services and miscellaneous sources, Dependants, whether earning or non. earning, were classified at the census according to the principal means of livelihood of th~ persons on whom they were dependent. The Primary Census Abstracts, which contain basic information in respect of every village and town, have been arranged according to talukas and petas, ~nits into which every district is divided for administrative purposes. Tb e taluka was, however, too small a unit to adopt for preparing the main census nbles. Therefore, in the B, C and D-series of tables, figures have been given for tr acts and not for talukas and petas. Belore sorting the census slips and tabulating the results, tracts were formed by combining the rural and urban areas of two or more talukas or petas. The tracts lnto which Surat district was divided for this purpose are shown below:- Rural Tracts (1) Rural areas of Olpad, Chorasi, Kamrej and Mangrol talukas and palsana peta. (~) Rural areas of Navsari taluka. (3) Rural areas of B ansda and Mahuwa talukas and Gandevi peta. (4) Rural areas ot Bardoli, l\Iandvi, . yara and Songadh talukas and Valod peta. ("l) Rural areas of F\ulsar and Pardi talukas. (,) Rural areas of Chikhli and Dharampur talukas. Urban Tracts (1) Surat City. (2) Urban areas of Cho,rasi and Kamrej talukas. (3) Urban areas of Bansda and Navsari talukas and Gandevi pe~. (4) Urban areas of Vyara, Mandvi, Songadh and Bardoli talukas. (,5) Urban areas of Bulsar and Dharampur talukas, Urban areas comprise the towns shown in table A-V. Shortly before the 1951 p!Jpulation census, a census of Small Industries taken, and the results of this census are given in the table called "Small ., 'ale Industries Census.Employment in Establishments", included III this H:cndbook. The intention was to find oUt something about Cottage and Home Ir.rlustries and small workshops. The larger establishments, that is, power-using Q<;tablishments ,,\lith 10 or more workers and non-power using establishments with -'0 or more workp.rs, were excluded from the scope of the enquiry as they now ~ubmit r~turns under the Factory Act. The enquiry did not concern itself also with workers functioning on their OWn and not employing other people, except when looms Were used. If even one loom was used a return was required. Otherwise the concept was of an - n;;uiry which embraced ali forms of associate 'activity where articles were t nduced, repaireri orO otherwise treated for sale, use or disposal. 4 A-I-Area, Houses DISTRICT Occupied Houses -----------------------~ Area In T aluka or Per. ,>quare Village> '!liles Talal Rural Urban 2 3 4 6 7 Tolal 41166.6 l.938 15 310,974 257,122 53,852 1 Bansds 234:1 92 1 12,372 ] I ,475 897 II Bardoli, 166.8 81 2 13,802 10,797 3,005 3 Bulsar 201.8 91 1 24,954 20,418 4,536 Chikhli 237.tI 87 21,573 21,573 11 Chorasi Ul.l 108 3 50,526 21,087 29,439 6 Dharampur o74.tI 238 1 20,324 19,350 964 1 Gandevi 124.8 55 2 20,041 16,213 3,828 S ,K.t.mrej 147.0 69 9,<130 8,53t1 894 9 Mahuwa 137.9 66 8.955 8.955 10 Ma.ndvi 276.6 136 1 1'3,039 11,545 1,494 11 Mangr"l 293.6 150 12,aoo 12,300 12 Navsari 283.1 139 1 36,285 tI,003 13 Olplld MU 102 12,176 12,176 14 Palsa.na 57.6" 49 6.261 6,261 15 Pardi 162.2 82 18.218 18,218 16 Songadh 298.7 206 1 9,6'" 8,778 866 17 Valod 77.9 40 6,373 6,373 18 Vyara 316.6 147 ,I 14,701 12,775 ],926 Note:-I. The area figure for the district of Surat supplied by the Surveyor General QfIndillois4,499.1 sq. miles. The area figures shown in column 2 'Were obtained ~ from the District Inspector of Land Records Or from Local records . • 2. 'fhe number of village!! shown in column 3 is the number of revenue villageS excluding uninhabited villages and villages which form part of municipal areas. 3. 'fhe number of tOWllS given in column 4 is the number of towns sHown in table A-V. In general, a town means a municipal area, cantonment area or B place which has a population of 5,000 or more persons Bnd exhibits urban characteristics. ' and Population. 5 SURAT Populalion Persons Males Females -- Total Rural Urban Total Rural Urban Total Rural. Urban S 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 1.827,842 1.439,191 388.651 918.277 717.943 200.334 909,565 721,248 188,317 63.966 69,510 4,455 32,944 30,672 2,272 31,021 28,t a8 l?,183 78,283 61,236 17,048 39,245 30,611 &,634 39,038 30,624 8,414 137,958 Il2,01S 25,440 69,053 06,048 ] 3,005 68,900 06,470 J 2,430 123,872 123,872 60,983 60,983 62,889 62l!l9 349,032 1(j8,903 240,129 178,840 64,267 124,073 170,192 64,636 11 ~,61i6 112,109 107,013 5;096 57,828 55,299 2,529 54,281 81,714 2,567 109,371 84,318 25,003 54,369 41,386 1~,1i83 55,002 42,932 12,fl70 51,918 46,815 5,103 25,591 23,090 2,501 26,327 23,725 2,602 54,161 54,151 27,087 27,087 27,064 27,064 75,205 67,726 7,479 38,477 34,688 3,7t19 36,728 33,OS8 3,690 74,202 74,202 38,161 38,161 36,041 36,041 199,166 154,502 44,663 94,896 72,157 22,738 104,270 82,845 21,926 64,568 6t,56S 3t,813 31,813 32,755 32,756 35,314 35,374 17,510 17,510 17,864 17,864 11(',636 110,636 54,772 64,772 55,864 55,864 61,905 59,0£7 2,858 32,174 30,694 1,480 29,731 28,353 1,378 36,179 36,179 18,338 IS,3SS 17,S41 17,841 89,949 78,622 11,327 46,197 40,367 5,830 43,'752 3~,_255 5,497 4.