District Census Handbook, 3 Surendranagar
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CENSUS OP INDIA 1961 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS' I Census of India, 1961 Volume V-Gujarat is being published in the following parts: I-A General Report I-B Report on Vital Statistics and Fertility Survey I-C Subsidiary Tables II-A General Population Tables II-B(l) General Economic Tables '(Tables B-1 to B-IV-C) , U-B(2) General Economic Tables (Tables B-V to B-IX) U-C Cultural and Migration' Tables III Household Economic Tables (Tables B-X to B-XVll) IV-A Report on Housing and Establishments IV-B Housing and Establishment Tables V-A Tables on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes V-B Ethnographic Notes on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (including reprints) VI Village Survey Monographs (25 Monographs) VII-A Selected Crafts of Gujarat VII-B Fairs and Festivals VIII-A Administration Report-Enumera t~Qn'} ~~tj for Sale VIII-B Administration Report-Tabu~ ~Ol1 IX Atlas Volume X Special Report on Cities STATE GOVER.NMENT PUBLICATIoNS' 17 District Census Handbooks in English 17 District Census Handbooks in Gujarati CONTENTS Papa PREFACE vii~x.i ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VILLAGES xiii-xx PART I (i) Introductory Essay . 1-33 (1) Location and Physical Features, (2) Administrative Set-up, (3) Local Self Government, (4) Population, (5) Housing, (6) Agriculture, (7) Livestock, (8) Irrigation, (9) Co-operation, (10) Economic Activity, (11) Industries and Power, (12) Transport and Communications, (13) Medical and Public Health. (14) Labour and Social Welfare, (15) Price Trends, (16) Community Development. (17) Five Year Plans. (18) Important Place Names (11) Gazetteer of Place Names • 34-43 PART II (i) Census Tables A-G~NERAL POPULATION TABLES Note 3-5 Table A-I Area, Houses and Population 6 Appendix. I 1951 Territorial units constituting the present set-up of district and each taluka/mahal 7 Sub-Appendix I to Appendix I Area for 1951 and 1961 for those municipal towns which have undergone changes in area since 1951 Census 8 SlIb-Appendix 2 to Appendix I . District/Taluka/Mahal showing 1951 population according to territorial jurisdiction in 1951, changes in area and the population involved in those changes . 8 Appendix II Number of Villages with a population of 5,000 and over and towns with a population under 5,000 9 List Places with a population of under 5,00') in 1951 which were treated as towns in 1951, but halle been omitted from the list of towns in 1961 9 Appendix III Houseless and Institutional Population 9 Table A-III Villages classified by population 10-11 Table A-IV Towns and Town-groups classified by population in 1961 with variation since 1941 12 Appendix I New Towns added in 1961 and Towns in 1951 declassified in 1961 13 Note Particulars of 1951 Census towns declassified in 1961 13 Special Appendix Towns with their area and jurisdiction 13 B (i)-GENERAL ECONOMIC TABLES Note 15-21 Table B-1 Workers and Non-workers classified by sex and broad age-groups 22 Table B-III Part A Industrial classification of Workers and Non-workers by educational levels in Urban areas only 23 Part B Industrial classification of Workers and Non-workers by educational levels in Rural areas only 24-26 Table B-IY Part A Industrial classification by sex and class of worker of persons at work at Household Industry 27-29 Part B Industrial classification by sex and class of worker of persons at work in non-household industry, trade, business, profession or service 30-33 Part C Industrial classification by sex and divisions, major groups and minor groups of persons at work other than cultivation 34-41 Appendix • 42-43 Table B-V Occupational cla§sification by seX: of personr. at work other than cultivation 44-67 Appendix 68-69 Annexure Appropriate Industrial categories of Occupational Families 69 Table 8-VII Part A Persons working principally (i) as Cultivators (ii) as Agricultural labourers or (iii) at Household Industry classified by sex and by Secondary work (i) at Household Industry (ii) as Cultivator or (iii) as A$Ticultural labourer. 70-72 Appendix 72 Table B-VII Part B Industrial classification by sex of persons working in non-household industry, trade, business, profession or service who are also engaged in household industry 73-71 Table B-VIll Part A· Persons unemployed aged 15 and above by sex, broad age-groups and educational levels in Urban areas only 78-79 Part B Persons unemployed aged IS and above by sex and educational levels in Rural areas only 78-79 Table 8-IX Persons not at work classified by sex, broad age-groups and type of activity 80-83 B (ii)-HOUSEHOLD ECONOMIC TABLES Table B-X Sample Households (i) engaged neither in cultivation nor household industry, (ii) engaged either in cultivation or household industry but not in both and (iii) engaged both in cultivation and household industry for all areas ..1 84 Table B-XI Sample Households engaged in cultivation classified by interest in land and size of land , cultivated in Rural and Urban areas separately 84-85 Table B-XII Sample Households engaged in cultivation only classified by size of land cultivated and number of family workers and hired workers in Rural and Urban areas separately • 86-93 Table B-XVI Sample Principal household industry classified by period of \\Iorking and total number of workers engaged in household industry in all areas 94-97 Appendix 98 Table B-XVII Sample Households classified by (i) number of male and female members by size of households and (ii) engagement (a) neither in cultivation nor in industry (b) in household industry only and tc) ill cultivation sub-classified by size of land cultivated • 99 C-SOCIAL AND CULTURAL TABLES Note 101-102 Table C-I Composition of Sample Households by relationship to head of family Classified by size of land cultivated 103 Table C-II Age and Marital Status 104-107 Table C-lIl Part A Age, Sex and Education in all areas 108 Part B Age, Sex and Education in Urban areas only 109 Table c-rv Single Year Age Returns 110 Table C-V Mother Tongue (Alphabetical order) 111-lJ2 Table C-VII Religion 113 Table C·VUI Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Part A Oassification by Literacy and Industrial Category of Workers and Non-workers among . Scheduled Castes 114 Part B Classification by Ljt~racy and Industrial Category of Workers and Non-workers among Scheduled Tribes 115 iv E-HOUSING TABLES Note 117-119 Table E-I Census Houses and the uses to which they are put 120--121 Table E-IJ Tenure Status of Sample Census households living in census houses used wholly or partly as dwelling 122-123 Table E·IV Distribution of Sample households living in census houses u$ed wholly or partly as dwelling by predominant material of wall and predominant material of roof 124-125 Table E-V Sample ~ouseholds classified by number of members and by number of rooms occupied • 126~127 SCT-SPECIAL TABLES FOR SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES Note 129 Table SCT-I Part A Industrial classification of persons at work and non-workers by sel( for Scheduled Castes 130-131 Part B Industrial classification of persons at work and non-workers by sex for Scheduled Tribes 132 STATEMEN,T A·POPULATION OF SCHEDULED CASTES 133 STATEMENT B-POPULATION OF SCHEDULED TRIBES m VILLAGE-WISE LIST OF INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS 135-138 ANNEXURE·STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION 139-141 LIST OF RURAL CRAFTS AND NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED IN PRODUCTION 143-161 (ii) Official Statistics 163-192 (A detailed list of tables on Official Statistics is given at page 164) PARTllI Village Directory Note 3 Wadhwan TaIuka 5-15 Muli Taluka 17-21 Chotila TaIuka 23-31 Limbdi Taluka 33-41 Lakhtar Taluka 43-47 Sayla Taluka 49-55 Dhrangadhra Taluka .57-65 Halvad Taluka 67-71 Dasada Taluka 73-79 MAPS District Map Frontispiece Fairs Facing Page 191 Taluka Wadhwln " 5 Taluka Muli 17 •• " Taluka Chatila .. 23 Taluka Li.nbdi It 33 Taluka Lakhtar " .. 43 Talnka sayla .. .. 49 Taluka DhraDladhra ., 57 Taluka Halvad " " 67 Taluka Dasada .. 73 y PREFACE Before 1951, only the figures of population advisable to incorporate as many of the census of revenue villages were given in what were then tables as possible to enhance its usefulness. The· called 'Village Handbooks'. But the decision to result has been that the District Census Hand bring out the District Census Handbooks giving book of 1961 differs widely in the matter of extracts from all the important censuS tables for content and coverage from that published after every district of the State was taken for the first the Census of 1951 and contains a number of time in 1951. In addition to the census tables, new fe::ttures, examined, below. the minimum information given in the Primary The District Census Handbook has been Census Abstract related to the area of the village, sub-divided into three parts, viz., :- number of houses and households, total popula tion, houseless and institutional population, PART I-THE DISTRICT literates, and agricultural and non-a~ricultural (i) Introductory Essay classes distributed under 8 main livelihood classes.