CENSUS OF INDIA' 1971' DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK DHULIA \ Part A-Town & Village Directory ~ . Part B-Primary Census". Abstract Compiled by. THE MAHARASHTRA CENSUS OFFICE BOMBAY Printed in India by the Manager, Nayan Pr.inting Press, Gandhi Road. Ahmedabad-I. aod Published by the Director. Government Printing anel Statioaeey Mahatashtra State, BombaJ-4 1973 [Price-Rs. Eight) '" '"w -''" 0:: 1: t; L 0 i J: :I: -' ! z Vll 0 i< M 0 -or :'l 0 ......., '" a:::: ~ il- I- ::r: ....C> """" on Q « 2 «a: CC ::r: __, 0:( !: :::. 1: :c Q 0 0 'Q N 0 ~ ." ,2 s, " ~ ., !: Ccl l>- I' () 'if ,, ~ """ (I. J:: ' o '( i:- \ ,!. '( .,.'".... "1 ~ t ( • ~. ... ill \ 0..' .' ~ ,. _. ,_,..," I ; : ( • .# ": ,... l· ." r .' ~ :~ l 'If n CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 Central G.,ernQlent Publications Census Report, Series Il-Maharashtra, is pUblished in the following Parts I-A and.B •• Qeneral RepQt't I-C •• Subsidiary Tables II-A .• General Population Tables U-B General Economic Tables lI-C Social and Cultural Tables II-D •• Migration Tables III •. Establishment-Report and Tables IV •• Housing-Report and Tables V Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Maharashtra--Tables VI-A •• Town Directory VI-B •• Special Survey Reports on Selected Towns VI-C •. Survey Reports Oa;t Selected Villages VII •• Report on Graduates and Technica 1 Personnel VIII-A •• Administration Report-Enumeration ( For official use only) VIII-B Administration Report-Tabulation (For official use only) IX Census Atlas of Maharashtra State GOTerDlDeIrt Publications 26 Volumes of Distriot Census Handbooks in English 26 Volumes of District Census Handbooks in Marathi Alphabetical List of Villages in Maharashtra (in Marathi ) INTRODUCTION This is the third edition of district census handbooks brought out largely on the ba!sis of the material collected during each decennial census of our popUlation. Earlier editions had appeared after the 1951 and the 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. Puticularsortbe diatributioD ofpopulation down to the smallest administrative unit like village and town and their broad cbaracteristics are required for purposes such as delimitation of electoral conatitllcnciCl, adjustment of administrative boundaries. educational and man­ power planning. Tho data. provided (or small areas serve as statistical frames for various surv.eya that may be taken .up. Part A of this handbook gives information relating to each village 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.' Tbe items covered are area, population and its sex break-up. housebolds, occupied houses, literacy, scheduled castes 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 1971 as tbe referen~ date. Part C, which win be published aeparately tbis time, will bave a general note on the phYJical features 01 the district, ita administmtive set-up, its Qemograpbic and socia-economic characteristics. It will include futther census tables, detailed official statistics on climate, rainfall, agriculture, indllstry, education, health and the like. In 1941, the populatioa figures for villages and towns were exhibited according to com­ munities, in the village handbooks publi.hed by the Government of Bombay. In 1951, the basis of census :Classification changed from a aoctal to an economic one ; census data for villages and towOl were presented according to eight livelihood classes io the primary ceosus .abatract. published in the district cellSRS handbooks. This was the Drst 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 waa enlarged. In ,addition Co tbe .census data in r.etpect of each village and toWll, otber official scat~tiCl for eacb·distriot were made available, wjtb an introductory note explaining the salient features of tbe districts. The village directory pllblished al a part of the 1961 bandbook carrjed basic census data included in the primary census abstract.; it indicated the amenities available in eacb village aDd town by means of abbreviations. These included postal. medical and educational facilities. sources of water supply and bazar day. It was fOllnd that the primary census abstract, wbich needed a lar.ge munber of .columu to present diiferent data. allowed very little space for information on amenities. AI a NSalt. &he diskict ·ceDllla handbook has .been divided into three parts in . <l.Sl71 .as mentioned above., The town and village directory of 1971 (part A) 3ivea informatioa OD .amenities-and faci· lities available in each town and village in the districts of Maharashtra. The particulars are presented tahsiIwi~ under each district. The villages and towns are arranged according to their ·census .tocauon code nllDibera. The particulars In the -village directory were c:oJtected through the revenue agency of the 'district on a prescribed form. For the town directory, six statements were compiled. Stale­ ment I contains tbe 1971 census population data compiled by the census office. The non~ censllS data in the other statements were "SUpplied by the municipal councils for tbeir areas and by the revenue agency for non-municipal towns. For purposes of tbe census. districts are divided into urban and rural areas. The 'urban 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): (I) every place having a municipality or a cantonment board irrespective of its population; (2) every other place which had (i) a popUlation of at least 5,000. (it) at least three-fourths of its male working population engaged in non-agricultural pursuits, and (iii) a density of population o( IV 1 N T ROD (J en 0 N at least 400 persons per sq .. kID ; (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 devdoping township. A place is called a village if it does not satisfy any of the criteria prescribed above for its being treated as urban. A 'village' for census purposes in Maharashtra has always. been the 'revenue village' which is the ultimate unit of area in which the State is sub-divided for lan~ revenue administr~­ tion. A few past censuses concerned themselves only with revenue villa'ges which had some population and did not take into account deserted or unihabited revcroJe 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~ oadas or mazaras (hamlets). Each revenue viJIage has a specified area marked as its own aDd its boun­ daries with other adjoining vi1lages 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 locally recognised status. Revenue villages ~hich do not have any residential population· are also included in the 1971 census definition of villages. They figure in ijle census tist but are described as uDin­ 'habited to distinguish them from the remaining ihhabited villages. The census definition of an uninhabited village differs sligbtly from the revenue definition of village in that the laUer defines an uninhabited village as ODe baving a 'population of less than 25. Wherever a revenue village situated on the outskirts ofa town is wholly or partly merged in that urban area, it bas been treated a~ a separate village. The population residins in tbat area which is statutorily merged in the town limits has been treated as orban population of that town: the residual popu]ation, 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 virlages bas been treated as urban population.' ' While the 1971 census village is thus completely identified with the revenue village, forest . vmages 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 tbe revenue department. The census list of villages also includes all inhabit*! for.est villages. .. - Tahsilwise alphabetical lists of -all villages and towns ·are printed In a separate section which prt'cedes part A. Tbe district and tahsil maps show by -!tame the district and tahsil headquarters, other towns and bigger villages. Smaller villages are indicated by location code numbers. An alphabetical list of villages and towns faces each map. Hilly regions and . uplands. are tinted. Rivers and commonicatibns are also sbown. Shri D. V. Rangnekar, deputy director of census QperatiOJls (Hq.), laid the groullclwork for the entire operation. His experience and guidance have been of great value at every slage. Sbri G. A. Walawalkar and Shri M. D. Haride, deputy directors of census ,operations, and Smt.