CENSUS. OF INDIA, 1961 PUNJAB DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK No.1 HISSA R DISTRICT R.L.ANAND Superintendent of Census Operations and Enumeration Commissioner, Punjab Published by the Government of Punjab 1966 HfSSAR DISTRICT H '. N o I I , } ,J i I I t. , .... I ",/ " .. I I " .... , ...... " I -...L.:.~ __,ro ..... ", ~ ~, \ .-:', ,. r'_"\ • ~ ... l · ,.... / ' . • OJ I. I REFERENCE aTATE BOUNDARY DISTRICT 80UNDARY TAHSIL BOUNDARY BROAO GAUGE A,t,ILWAY ",ETRE GAUGE RAILWAY l..",,\ METALLED ROAD -- ROAD UNOER CONSoTRUCTION ~'''' RIVER ~ 1 CANAL / .. -. DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS ® r' TAHSIL HEAOQUARTERS 0 ., URBAN CENTRE • .... I \ 10 5 o 10 MILES 10 o IS KILOMETRES CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 A~CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS The pUblications relating to Punjab bear Volume No. XIII, and are bound separately as follows :- Part I-A .. General Report Part IV-B . Tables 6n Housing and Establish­ ments Part l-B ., Report on Vital Statistics Part V-A Special Tables on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Part I-C(i) .. Subsidiary Tables ., Part V-B .. Ethnographic Notes on Scheduled Parr I-C(ii) .. Subsidiary Tables Castes and Scheduled Tribes Parr II-A General Population Tables Part VI .. Village Survey Monographs: 44 in number, each relating to an Part IT-B(i) . General Economic Tables (Tables individual village B-J to B·TV, B-VIII and B-IX) Part VIJ-A .. Report on Selected Handicrafts Part II-B(ii) , . General Economic Tables (Tables B-V to B-VII) Part VII-B .. Reporl and Tables on Fairs and Festivals Part II-C(i) .. Social and Cultural Tables Part VnT-A Administrative Report Enumera- Parrn-C(ii) .. Migration Tables tion (Not for sale) Part VITT-B Administrative Report Tabula- Part III " Household Economic Tables tion (Not for sale) Part IV-A " Report on Housing and Establ ish- Palt I X · . Socio-Economic Atlas ments B-PUNJAB GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 19 Volumes of District Census Handbooks ;__ DCH·1 · . Hissar DCH-ll · . Ludhiana DCH-2 · . Rohtak DCH-12 · . Fel'ozepur DCH-3 · . GUl'gaon DCH-13 · . Amritsar DCH-4 · . Kamal DCH-14· · . Gurdaspur DCH-5 · . Ambala DCH-i5 · . Kapurthala DCH·6 · . Simla DCH-16 Bhatinda DCH-7 · . Kangra DCH-L7 · . Sangrur DCH-8 · . Lahaul & Spiti DCR-lB Patiala DOH·9 HoshiatpuI DCH-19 · . ¥ahendragarh DCH.l0 Jullundur PREFACE . The m~in reports and statistical vo~umes pertaining to the 1961-census fall under three brO!rcl::§roups on the ~asls of terrItory cover.age. The AIl-IndIa Reports and .Tables'compiled in the office of the Registrar Ge.1J.~ral, IndIa, encompass .the entlre country. The reports complIed by the State Superintendents relate to individual States and Centrally Administered Territories. The third group consists of District Census Handbooks the scope of which is limite? to individual D~stricts, and they give information for each town and village. The Hand­ books have been complIed by the SuperIntendent of Census Operwtions, but are published by the State Govern­ ment. The _District <;!ensus Ha!ldb.boks were l?ublished for the first time at the 1951-census. They proved very useful wIth the offIcers workmg In Commumty Development Blocks, Tahsils and Districts and were consul­ ted .in connecti~n wit~ elec~ions. and by students of social ~ciences interested in local problems.' It was, therefore, deCIded to contmue WIth thIS senes at the 1961-census. ThIS Handbook contains the essential census data for each village and town (according to wards) in the District. Besides, some very useful information collected from va!io~s State Departments has been included in it, trying to make it a self-contained book of reference for the DIstriCt. The book is divided into four parts. Part I is mostly descriptive and consists offour chapters. Chapter I introduces the District, giving information on its location, physical features, climate, fauna and flora, towns and places of interest, a brief history of the District and its administrative machinery. In Chapter II are discussed the uJe of land, main crops and irrigation, industries, trade and commerce, and communications. In Chapter III .,)'he salient features of population are discussed. Chapter IV dea!~with social and developmental activities, and achievements during the First and Second Five-Year Plans .. In Part II are presented the statistics secured from various Government Departments relating to rainfall, temperllture, land utilisation, irrigation, ~rea and yield of principal crops, livestock, industry, co-operation, education, printing and publishing, entertainments, medical and health, births and deaths, ttansport and communications, community development activities, banks and insurance, and justice. Then comes a Table on the fairs and tesfivals in the District. The Tables relating to the 1961-census are presented in Part III. Part IV contaJins a Directory of ViII ages and Towns, showing the location of educational institutions, hospitals and dispensaries, post and telegraph offices, electrification and protected water-supply; area ; number of occupied residential houses and households living therein; population; persons belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes; number ofliterate and edu­ cated per~ons ; number of workers in nine broad industrial categories ; and number of non-workers. The book contains severa,! maps. There is a map of the District showing the administrative boundar~es, roads and railways, rivers and canals, and location of towns. Another map shows the distribution ofpopulatlOn. in the DistrIct by dots: the population oftowns is shown b.y proportionate cricles ; and of rural areas by dots, one dot representing 200 persons. For each Tahsil in the District two types of maps have been'prepared, one showing the location of social amenities, and the second showing the boundaries ofvillages.and towns. These maps were prepared by Shd J.R. Kalia, Draftsman in our office. This publication is the outcome of the joint efforts of a large number of workers and Government De partmeilts, and grateful aCknowledgement is made of the help received fr om them. Within the Census Organisa­ tion mention needs to be made ofShri Jaswant Singh Dilawary, Statistical Assistant and Shri Vishw~ Mitter, . Supervisor, under the supervision of Shri T. P. Garg, P.C.S., Deputy Superintendent of Census OperatIons, for, preparing the Tables appearing in Part II and of Shri Goverdhan Dass Singla, Statistical Assistallt and SarVshrl Dharam Paul Jain and Joginder Nath Suri, Tabulation Assistants, under the supervision of Shri Pawan Kumar, Tabulation Officer, for preparing the Tables appearing in Parts III and IV. Sarvshri Dharam Paul Jain and Ajab Lal Kakkar helped in correcting the proofs in the Press. Ski T. P. Garg,P.e.S., Deputy Superintendent of Census Operations,Punjab,pa.id a number of visits to various parts of the Hissar District, and after collecting information by personal observations and discuss­ ions with a large number of p'ersons, produced the draft of this Handbook. My thanks are due also to Shri K.C. KUriyan, Controller of Printing & Statieneyy, Punjab, and his Deputy. Shri Tara Chand, for their personal attention in the printing of the book. - R. L. ANAND, CHANDIGARH Superintendent of Census Operations, July 25~ 1966. and Enumeration Commissioner, PWljab. CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE iii PART I._lNTRODUC110N TO THE DISTRICT 1-41 Chapter I-Introduction 3 Chapter II-Economy 15 Chapter IlL_Population 25 Chaptel IV-Social and Developmental Activities 3S' PART IT-DEPARTMENTAL STATlSllCS 43~137 Explanatory Note 47 Tables 51 PARTI~CENSUS TABLES 139-289 Explanatory Note 145 Tables .173 PART IV-DIRECTOlW OF VILLAGES AND TOW NS i~-lxxxiv Explanatory Note ii Directory IV Alphabetical List of Villages lxix MAPS Administrative Map of Hissar Dis-trict Frontispiece Hissar District Map showing Population Facing page 25 Maps offive Tahsils showing Schools, Dispensaries and Post Offices Facing page 35 Maps of Tahs its showing boundaries of Villages Facing pages lxxi, lxxv, lxxvii, lx.xxi &, lxxxiii PART I INTRODUCTION TO THE DISTRICT CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Name.-The District derives its name from its headquarters town, Hissar, which was founded by Ferozeshah Tughlak in the 14th century. He named it after himself, Hissar Feroza, i.e., the 'Fort of Feroze'. The name was subsequently contracted to Hissar:,_ Location and Boundaries.-The District is the most western of the six Districts of the Commissioner's Division Ambala, and lies on the confines of Rajasthan Desert betwe~n 28°-36' and 30°-1' north latitude and 74°-31' and 76°-22' east longitude. It is bounded by Mahendragarh District and Jhunjhunu District of Rajasthan .... on the south, Rohtak and Sangrur Districts in the east, Bhatinda and Ferozepur Districts in the north and Ganganagar and Churu Districts t>f Rajasthan on the west. Area (Table A-I, Part IIl).-The total area of the District, according to the Surveyor General ofIndia is 5,380 sq. miles, but the Director of Land Records, Punjab, puts it at 5,363.3, sq. miles. The District ranks first in area among the nineteen Districts of PUnjab. The area of each of its five Tahsils, according to the village papers, is shown below. Area (sq. miles) Tahsil Total Rural Urban ,;' Sirsa 1,638 ·6 1,635'1 3 ·5 Fatehabad 919'2 915·2 4·0 Hissar 1,022 ·7 1,011'6 11·1 Hansi 806·5 800·9 5 ·6 Bhiwani 976·3 970·5 5 ·8 General Landscape.-Th~ General Landscape of the District may be described as a level plain stretching from the north-west to the south-east, and unbroken by natural irregularity, except in the south-western corner where some detached peaks of Atavali range exist. The highest of these is the Tosham hill, 800 feet high. PHYSICAL FEATURES The soil of the District changes gradually from light sand on the western border to"a firm loam on the confines of Rohtak and Sangnlr Districts. In the western parts of Hansi, Fatehabad and Hissar Tahsils sand dunes are also Seen.