CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK OSMANABAD Part A-Town & Village Directory Part B-Primary Census Abstract Compiled by THE MAHARASHTRA CENSUS OFFICE BOMBAY Printed in India. by the Manager, Nayan Printing Press, Gandhi Road, Ahmedabad-I, and Published by the Director. Government Pritltin,g and Stationery Maharashtra State. Bombay-4 1973 ~ ..... ~ -=~ 'i: g ;< g ...,. .... ~ -0 .... g a::: ...... -<IOC -Q t- :J: r-'" III Q <: e -c «III: r::o X« -< .t:: e :z:: o .,z: :E: ...... 0 .,. Q .... Q .'\ ,­ t· :-. • 1.. • ...1 e \ _.-". ~ " \.... ) 0 ~ ~ .s- £) ....~ '" ci ..0 \ >- 'l :t: z , rr: « Z .I: ...... tID (.Ji""" ... ~ 0:: ,. - /: ...« C. "( i r ' , , /" . _ . t.:l ) I , ,., \ _. 1:'" .. .,:::> ... .... il • • - / . ( \. , ~.",. i .. ~ .... , .. ::i \ . •• ( I o~ i \. ~ . ~ \ "'-. '~ Iii \. , ,.. () CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 Central Government Publications Census Report. Ser!es I1-Maharashtra, is published in the following Parts I-A and B •• General Report I-C Subsidiary Tables II-A General Population Tables II-B General Economic Tables II-C Social and Cu]tural Tables JI-D Migration Tables III .. Establishment--Report and Tables IV Housing--Report and Tables V •. Scheduled Castes and Schedu1ed Tribes in Mabarashtra--TabJes VI-A Town Directory VI-B Special Survey Reports on Selected Towns VI-C •• Survey Reports 00 Selected Villages VII Report on Graduates and Technical Personnel VIII-A Administration Report-Enumeration (For official use only) VIII-B ~. Administration Report--TabuJation (For official use only) IX ... Census A t1as of Maharasbtra State Government Publications 25 Volumes of District Census Handbooks In English 25 Volumes of District Census Handbooks in Maratbi Alpbabetical List of Villages in Maharashtra ( in Maratbi ) INTRODUCTION This is t.he third edition. of district census handbooks brought out largely on the, basi.~ of the matenal collected durmg each decennial census of our population. Earlier editions had appeared after ~he 1951 and th~ 1961 censuses. The present volume generally follows. the pattern of Its predecessors In presenting the 1971 census tables for the district and basic demographic, economic and general information for each village therein. Particulars of tbe distribution of population down to the smallest administrative unit like village and town and their broad characteristics are required for purposes such as delimitation of electoral constituencies, adjustment of admnistrative boundaries, educational and man­ power planning. The data provided for small areas serve as statistical frames for various sUJveys that may be taken up. Part A of this handbook gives information relating to each vil1age and town in the district. Revenue and municipal officials all over the district helped us in collecting the data for this section. Part B carries the 1971 primary census abstracts which present the population for each village and urban block. The items covered are area, population and its sex break .. up. households, occupied bouses~ literacy, scheduled ca~tcs and scheduled tribes~ workers and non­ workers with a break-up of workers into broad industrial categories. The population figures, given here have the sunrise of 1 April \971 as tbe reference date. Part C. which will be published separately this time, win bave a general note on tbe physical features of the district, its admistrative' set-up, its demographic and socio-economic. charactcristics. It wlll include further census tables, detailed official statistics on climate-" rainfall, agriculture. ind ustry, education, health and the like. In 1941, the population figures for viJIages and towns were exhibited according to com­ munities, in tbe village handbooks published by the Government of Bombay. In 1951, the basis of census classification changed from a social to an economic one ; census data for villages and towns were presented according to eight livelihood classes in the primary census abstracts published in the district census handbooks. This was the first occasion when district census handbooks were brought out. The handbooks contained information about different amenities available in respect of each village and town. During the 1961 census~ the scope of the handbook was enlarged. 10 addition to the census data in respect of each vi11age and town, other official statistics for each distriot were made available, wjth an introductory Dote explaining the salient features of the districts~ The village directory published as a part of the 1961 handbook carried b3sic census data included in the primary census abstracts; it indicated the amenities available in each village and town by means of abbreviations. These inclUded postal, medical and education facilities. SOIUCCS of water supply and bazar day. It was found that the primary census abstract. which needed a large number of columns to present different data. allowed very little sl'ace for information, on ameDlties. As a result, the district census handbook has been divided into three.parts in 1971 as mentioned above. The town and village directory of 1971 (Part A) gives information on amenitie's and Iaci-" lities available in each town and village in the districts ~of Mah~rasbtra. The particulars arc presented tahsilwise under each district. The villages and -towns are arranged according,. to_ their census location code numbers. The particulars in the village directory were col1ected througb the revenue agency 'of the district on a prescribed form. For the town directory, six statements were compiled. State-­ ment I contains the 1971 census population data compiled by the census office. The- non­ census data in the other statements were supplied by the municipal councils for their ,a.reas and .. by the revenue agency for non-municipal towns. For purposes of the census. districts are divided into urban and rural areas. The urb.. n' area ( towns) is defined in detail; those areas which do not satisfy this definition are treated as rural areas ( villages ). The following places have been treated as urban areas ( towns): (l) every place having a municipality or a cantonment board irrespective of its population .. (2) every other place which had (0 a population of at least 5,000. (ii) at least three-fourths of its' male working population engaged in non-agricultural pursuitst and (iii) a density of population of iv INTRODUCTION at Jeast 400 persons per sq. km ; (3) any other place not falling under the above two categories but which possesses certain distinct characteristics to qualify for its being treated as urban such as its being a project area or a developing township. A place is calJed a vi1lage if it does not satisfy any of the criteria prescribed above for its being treated as urban. A 'vil1age~ for census purposes in Maharashtra has always been the 'revenue vi11age' which is the ultimate unit of area in which the State is sub-divided for land revenue administra­ tion. A few past censuses concerned themselves only with revenue villages which bad some population and did not take into account deserted or unihabited revenue villages. As in 1961, a village at the 1971 census is a revenue village having well-defined boundaries, a map and a separate set of land records irrespective of whether that defined area has any population or not and, if it has some population whether that population resides in one locality (gaothan) or is spread over one or more identifiable clusters of population known as wadis, padas or mazaras (hamlets). Each revenue village has a specified area marked as its own and its boun­ daries with other adjoining villages have always enjoyed a traditional sanctity. Hamlets do not have such defined boundaries or areas distinctly marked or allotted to them; nor do they have any IocalJy recognised status. Revenue vi11ages which do not have any residential population are also included in the 1971 census definition of vi1lages. They figure in the census list but are described as unin­ habited to distinguish them from the remaining inhabited villages. The census definition of an uninhabited village differs slightly from the revenue definition of village in that the latter defines an uninhabited village as ooe havinga population of less than 25. Wherever a revenue village situated on tbe outskirts of a town is wbolly or partly merged in that urban area~ it has been treated as a separate village. The population residing in that area which is statutorily merged in the town limits has been treated as urban population of that town: tbe residual population, if any, residing in the area outside the limits of the town is alone treated as the population of that village. Thus, a few partly merged villages have returned some populations. The population for all fully merged villages has been treatad as urban popUlation. While the 1971 census village is thus completely identified with the revenue village, forest villages make an exception. They are population centres situated within reserved forest areas. Their population consists mainly of forest labourers and their families. Most of them are permanent or semi-permanent localities and may have attached cultivated areas leased out by the forest department under certain conditions. The land records of such villages are not maintained by the revenue department. The census list of villages also includes all inhabited forest villages. Tahsilwise alphabetical lists of all villages and towns are printed in a separate section which precedes part A. The district and tahsil maps show by Dame the district and tahsil headquarters, other towns and bigger villages. Smaller villages are indicated by location code numbers. An alphabetical list of vi11ages and towns faces each map. Hilly regions and uplands are tinted. Rivers and communications are also shown. Shri D. V. Rangnekar, deputy director of census operations (Hq.). laid the groundwork for tbe entire operation. His experience and guidance have been of great value at every stage. Shri G. A. Walawalkar and Shri M. D. Baride, deputy directors of census operations, and Smt. V. Y. Joshi and Shri D. S. Pilpile, tabulation officers~ were mainly responsible for the collection and processing of data for Part A.