CENSUS 1971 SERIES 2 ANDHRA PRADESH DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK WARANGAL PART X-A VILLAGE & TOWN DIRECTORY PART X-B VILLAGE & TOWN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT T. VEDANTAM OF THE INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE DIRECTOR OF CENSUS OPERATIONS ANDHRA PRADESH PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH 1973 November, 1969 when it was lifled and the entire State became wet uniformly. Warangal is one of the four Excise Divisional Headquarters into which the State had been divided, It compri­ ses besides WarangaI, Ihe districts of Adi/abad, Khummam, Karimnagar and Na/gonda, A Deputy Commissioner of Excise functions from here assisted by (eams of Gazetted aniNon­ gazetted staff in each of the five districts, under the overall control of the Commissioner of Excise who is a Member of the Board of Revenue. • The ru'ral tracl of Warangal district is considerably rich in palmyra and date palm trees which yield annually substantial revenues to the State Exchequer by way of 'Mahsool' (tree tax). There are about one and a half lakh palmyra trees and half a lakh date palm trees abounding the rural parts 0/ Warangal district which are taoped every year. About 18,000 persons are e'lgaged in tapping and allied pursuits in the countryside of Waranga! district. The total annual revenue accrUing from toddy for the whole of the Telangana region is loughly twelve crores of rupees. Warangal district contributes more than 70 lakhs of rupees, consiSTing of 16 lakhs derived from 'Mahwol' and Rs. 55 lakhs TODDY MEANS from the I en/als of the toddy shops auctiolled every year by the State Government in this district. There are about 750 such MANY THINGS shops in the district. Besides the todd" shops, there are Iwo palm-gur centres also in Warangal district, one in Ghanapur of TO MANY PEOPLE Mu/ltg taluk and the other in UplJugal of Warallgal ta/uk which are inactive at present. The motif on the title page of this Handbook shows a toddy Apart from providing sizeable excise income to the State, shop with its social background in Warangal district. the palmyra and date palm trees are very useful in other ways also. The trunk of the palmyra, after treatment, is put to The manufacture and sale of liquor was carried on in manifold uses as constructional material (pillars, rafters, ('arlier dayS in Warangal district and in the other parts of heams) etc. Its leaves are employed as thatch and for the Telangana region as a hereditary profession by a class of manufacture of baskets, umbrellas, fans, mats, tatties and persons called 'Kala Is'. each one of whom had a still of his brooms and also burnt as fuel, Its hollowed trunk serves as a own attached to his shop. The right 10 tap and sell'Sendhr canoe while its hollowed girth is used for drawing water from or toddy - the fermented juice of date trees - was combined the irrigation wells. Palmyra fibre isused for mallufacture of and farmed alit to the contractors by taluks and districts. The ropes. Government had exclll ~jve rights over these trees. In the case of patta lands also the pattadars were not entitled to tap the Drinking of toddy is perhaps, the 011/,1' elltertainment that trees and sell the juice except fa the Government contractors. the labour classes can think of. Toddy relieves, though tempo­ However, the Jagirdars who possessed extensive lands and rarily, the mundane monotony and drudgery and gives a sense oj constituted a powerful and influential class in the Nizam's relaxation. Serving of toddy by women is a common spectacle Dominions stood in the way of re·~e_llues reaching the Govern­ in the toddy shops which usually rUII from midday. after men!.. By introducing various reforms Jetween 1911 and 1935 cDllecting toddy from different centres, to late hours in Ih, the administrative machinery of the EXCise Department was night. However, the trade will be brisk as the dusk approa~ toned u!' and Ihe middle men were eliminated. ,This resulted ches and streams of customers Row in. Drinking is interspersed in the increase'of the State's Excise income considerably. or followed by eating some vegetarian and/or 1I0n-vegetari"n snacks such as roasted dhalls, chips, mirchi bajjis af,d With the formal ian of the Andhra Pradesh State on J.st mixtures, fried fish and mutton chops etc. It is also com~n November, 1956, the Excise Department of the erstwhile to see batches of addicts trekking long distances in the r.. al Hyderabad State passed under the control of the Board of areas to have a bottle of toddy which they say refreshes nd Revenue, But the Andhra Pradesh (Telangana area) Abkari keeps them fit for morrow's tasks, The pre-aawn juice f!Opu­ Aci". 1316 F_ and the rules (hereunder were in force in the Telan­ larl), called 'Neera' makes a wholesome beverage is in mf)dest gana area while prohibition was in force in the Andhra area till demand for its reported medicinal properties, PREFACE The District Cef!Sus Handbooks which were first published at the 1951 Census proved to be very useful to the State and Central Government Departments, private agencies and academic bodies like Universities and Research Institutions. The scope of these Handbooks was enlarged to make them more useful during the 1961 Census. Considenng the delay in the publication of these Handbooks due to difficulties in finding suitable presses which could undertake huge printing work of this kind, it was considered desirable to split up the 1971 Census Handbooks into three parts viz., Part A-Village and Town Directory, Part B-Vi:Jage and Town Primary Census Abstract and Part C-Analytical Report, Departmental Statistics and District Census Tables. This was done mainly with a view to publishing Parts A and B which contain not only the population data uptD the village and town level but also the particulars about the basic amenities etc., available in the towns and villages, as early as possible for public use. The scope and contents of these three parts are elaborated in the introduction of this volume. I am glad to record here that Parts A and B of the 1971 Census Handbooks of all the 21 districts in the State have been finalised already and I expect that before the end of 1973 Parts A and B for all the 21 districts would have been published. The compilation of thf'se Handbooks 'is being done from the 1951 Census in the Office of the Director of Censm Operations while the cost of paper, printing, etc., required for these volumes is being borne by the State Government. The Andhra Pradesh State Government have readily agreed to bear the cost of printing and paper for the 1971 Census Handbooks. I am grateful to the Andhra Pradesh State Government and in particular to the Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of Andhra Pradesh, Shri S. A. Quader, I.A .S., for their co-operation and encouragement. I am thankful to the Director of Printing, Government of Andhra Pradesh for assisting me by selecting suitable presses for undertaking the printing of the Handbooks. The data presented in the Village and Town Directories are obtained from different State Government and Central Government Departments but for whose co-operation Part-A of the Handbooks could not have been compiled. I am thankful to all of them for furnishing me the required data. I am extremely grateful to Shri A. Chandra Sekhar, I.A.S., Registrar General, India and Dr. Roy Burman, Deputy Registrar General, India who formulated the contents of these Handbooks in detail and rendered srontaneous help and encouragement to me at all stages. The following staff of my office worked on the present volume of Warangal District Census Handbook under the guidance and supervision of Shri P. S. R. Avadhany, Deputy Director of Census Operations and Shri K. Narasimha Murthy, Assistant Director of Census Operations of my ~ffice. Sri P. B. Sundar Raj, Tabulation Officer Drafting and Scrutiny T. Govardhana Rao, Statistical Assistant } Smt. P. Lltlitha. Tabulation Officer l_ Supervision of Printing Sri T. Brahmiah, Statistical Assistant J Kumari B. Tarakeshwari Rao, Computor Smt. Ch. Shakuntala Devi, Assistant Compiler Sri V. Babu Rao, Assistant Compiler Collection and Compilation P. V. Prabhakar, Assistant Compiler } " S. Ramakrishna, Assistant Compiler " Sri A. Venkateshwara Rao, Assistant Compiler Scrutiny of Maps Sri G. S. Choudary, Proof Reader Proof Reading " M. Laxma Reddy, Proof Reader } 11 Sri M. N. Ram Mohan. Artist SupervisioD of Mapping wor~ Sri Syed Ahmed, Senior Draughtsman M. J. Sadiq, Draughtsman N. G. Swamy, Draughtsman " Mohiuddin Hasan, Draughtsman " M. Shankaraiah, Draughtsman Preparation of Maps " Md. Yakub Ali, Draughtsman " B. Raghuram, Draughtsman Smt." Daya Saxena, Draughtsman Sri D. Koteshwara Rao, Computor I am grateful to their services I trust that this humble effort on the part of the Census Organisation would meet with the appreciation it deserves. T. VEDANTAM Director of Census Operations. CONTENTS II Pages Introduction 1-4 PART A-VILLAGE AND TOWN DlRECTORY SECTION I-VILLAGE DIRECTORY Explanatory Note-Village Directory 5-Il Village Directory: Warangal Taluk 13-27 Parkal Taluk 29-37 Mulug Taluk 39-53 Narasampet Taluk 55-65 Mahbubabad Taluk 67-75 Jangaon Taluk 77-87 Talukwise Abstract of Amenities 88-89 SECTION U-TOWN DIRECTORY Explanatory Note-Town Directory 91-96 Town Directory : Statement I Status, Growth History Rnd Functional Category of Towns 97 Statement II Physical Aspects and Location of Towns 98 Statement III Civic Finance 98 Statement IV Civic and Other Amenities 99 Statement V Medical, Educational, Recreational and Cultural Facilities 100 Statement VI Trade, Commerce, Industry and Banking Facilities 101 Statement VII Population by Religion and Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes 101 PART B-VILLAGE AND TOWN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT Explanatory Note-Primary Census Abstract 103-109 Primary Census Abstract : WARANGAL DTSTRICT 110-113 Warangal Taluk 115-170 Parkal.