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CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 PUNJAB DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK NO.3 GURGAON DISTRICT R. L. ANAND Superintendent of Census Operations and Enumeration Commissioner, Punjab Published by the Government of Punjab 1965 GURGAON DISTRICT E L H ~ o r. '-., '1Il. 7" 76· 77' 70· 3f I~ PUNJAB )"'''''-'. " ~.-.- \,., ....'.,/ ..... ,r-....... .,..... ., REFERE~CE .~.1 (_._ ,\ \,r't3i ~ .' "..... ! ._..... \ -\ , .. _. c._ 'i('-, \..!' \) .......... STATE !oOUHOARY . ' ...... .... --.- DISTRICT II ~_.((;,.... V~. j ~ j31' '31. .--_._\_ . TA!,!SIL, II .',...... 1"- rt 'J.~ '''' l I.~.~.~,,- -..,.\ t BROAD GAUGE RAILWAY ,.. \ "f"\'~ ) rt ~ -=-- J1( 1'=~ '\-.,) ';' ,/._. ~_,._ ....... ,., MILES METRE GAUGE .. ~ 10 5 0 10 ~ _ .... _""" i., (J ! METALLED ROAD. ~ , i~.J\ "''! ! I I I • '\i - <'" \ I : I - UNMETALLED I (,. \._, '-1""2, .' ",\-,.II! 15 0 15 " \.. t.; \ ~ KILOMETRE!; ~ RIVER 2.'1 \ /'''' r -==:. EXIS.TING CANAL II ~!" PROPOSED \ =: = ",~ 12.11 a9 i.t ® DISTRICT HEAD QUARTERS QD • ., -'to "MU$ 0 TAHSIL " .0 • .. Ito tyt.OJoItnttfS URBAN CENTRE "'E 'IS" "Ii. TI ""if/' • " tiENSU~ tJF INDIA 1961 A-CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS The publications relating to Punjab bear Volume.No. 'XIII, and are bound separatIy as follows :- \ .PartI~A General Report Part IV-B .. Tables on Housing and Establish- ments PartI~B Report on Vital Statistics Part V-A . Special Tables on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes PartI-C(i) Subsidiary Tables Part V-B .. Ethnographic Notes on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Part I-C(ii) .. Subsidiary Tables Part VI .. Village Survey Monographs: Part II-A .. General Population Tables 44 in number, each relating to an individual village PartII-B(i) .. General Economic Tables (Tables B-Ito B-IV, B-VIII and B-IX) Part VII-A .. Report on Selected Handicrafts Part II-B (ii) .. General Economic Tables.,1ables Part'VII-B . Report and Tables on Fairs and B-V to B-VII) Festivals PartII-C(i) .. Social and Cultural Tables Part VIII-A .. Administrative Report: Enumera- - tion (Not for sale) Part II-C (ii) Migl;atrc.m Tablf~ . \ ' r 'P~l'1: VIII-B / Administrative Report: Tabula- Part III Household Economic Tables ,tion (Not for sale) Part IV-A .. Report on Housing and Establish.. Part IX • Socio-Economic Atlas ments B-PUNJAB GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 19 Volumes of Djstrict Cens\ls Ha'ndbcloks(:+ DCH-l Hissar DCH-ll Ludhiana DCH-2 · . Rohtak DCH-12 · . Ferozepur DCH-3 Gurgaon DCH-13 Amritsar · . { · . DCH-4 · . Karnal • DCH-14 · . Gurdaspur DCH-5 ·. Ambala DCH-1S · . Kapurthala bCH-6 Simla DCH-16 Bhatinda DCH-7 Kangra DCR-17 Sangrur - . DCH-8 Lahaul and Spiti :IDCB'TS' .• ·. Patiala DCH-9 · . Hoshiarpur DCH-19 · . Mahendragarh DCH-IO Jullundur PREFACE Taking into consideration territorial coverage, the 1961-census reports are of three types. The reports compiled in the office of the Registrar General, India, encompass the entire country, treating States and Centrally Administered Territories as the constituents. The reports compiled by the State Superintendents of Census Opera tions are confined to individual States and Centrally Administered Territories, giving details for Districts, and in some cases Tahsils and Towns. The third series constitutes the District Census Handbooks the scope of which is limited to individual Districts and they give information also for each Tahsil, town (ward-wise) and village within the District. The Handbooks have a narrower compass but go deeper down to the smallest territorial units. The District Census Handbooks were published for the first tiine at the 1951-census. They proved very popular and valuable, their chief users being the officers working at Development Block, Tahsil and Di~trict levels, and students of social sci~nces interested in local problems. At the 1961-census, it was, therefore, decided to continlle with this series and to ,make it still more informative. The Handbooks have been compiled by the Superintendent of Census Operations, but are published by the State Government. In their present form they are self-contained books of reference. The Handbook has four parts. Part I which is mostly descriptive, fUJther comprises four chapters. Chlpter I introduces the District, describing any legend connected with its name, location and boundaries .. physical fclturc" climlte, fauna and flora, towns and places of interest, its history and present administrative machinery. Chapter II contains description of its agriculture, industries, trade and commerce and communications. In Chapter III the Sllient feature.> of population are discussed. Chapter IV deals with social and developmental activities portraying the achievments during the First and Second-Five Year Plans. Part II contains the statistics procured from various Government Departments, on rainfall and temperature, agriCUlture, livestock, industry, co-operation, education, printing and publishing, entertainments, medical and health, births and deaths, transport and communications, local administration, banks and insurance, justice and community development. At the end of this Part appears a Table on fairs and festivals held in the Distrjct. The Tables prepared from the 1961-census are presented in Part III, and they are of the same pattern as those appearing in the State reports. Part IV contains a Directory of Villages and Towns, showing for each village and town, its name, social amenities (educational institutions, hospitals and dispensaries, medical practitioners, Post and Telegraph Offices, electrification and protected water-supply) ; area; number of occupied residential houses and households living therein ; total population ; persons belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes; number of literate and educated persons; number of workers distriOuted under nine industrial categories; and non-workers. The Handbook contains several maps. There is a map of the District showing the administrative boundaries, roads and railways, rivers and canals, and location of towns. Another map shows the distribution of population by dots, each dot representing 200 persons in case of rural areas. Then there are maps for each Tahsil showing (i) the location of social amenities, and (ii) boundaries of villages and towns. This publication is the outcome of the joint efforts of a large number of workers and Government departments. Grateful mention needs to be made here of the thousands 'of enumerators, supervisors, charge officers and District officers who collected the data on census; hundreds of persons who worked in the Tabulation offices compiling and processing this data; and the vadpus Departments of Government which supplied information on the activities with which they ar~ concerned. Shri T. P. Garg, P.C.S., a Deputy Superintendent of Census Operations, Punjab, paid a number of visits to the various parts of Gurgaon District, collected information on diverse subjects and produced thf' draft of the Hand book. In this work he was assisted by Shri Jaswant Singh Dillawary, a Statistical Assistant and Shri Vishwa Mittar, a Supervisor. The maps were prepared in the Cartographic Section in the Census Office jointly by Kumaris Satwinder H. Singh, M:A., Nirmal Bajaj, M.A., and Ranbir Sokhi, M.A. My thanks are due to shd K. C. Kuriyan, Controller of Printing and Stationery, Punjab, and his Deputy Shri Tara Chand, for the personal attention they paid to this 'book while it was in print. R. L. ANAND, CHANDIGARH : Superintendent of Census Operations, September 29, 1965. and Enumeration Commissioner, Punjab. CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE iii PART I-INTRODUCTION TO THE DISTRICT 1-38 Chapter I-Introduction 3 Chapter II-EconoUlY 14 Chapter III-Population 23 Chapter IV-Social and Developmental Activities 31 PART II-DEPARTMENTAL STATISTICS 39-129 Explanatory Note 43 Tables 48 PART m-CE!'iSUS TABLES 131-292 Explanatory Note 137 Tables 164 PART IV-DIRECTORY OF VILLAGES AND TOWNS Explanatory Note Directory iv Alphabetical List of Villages xciii MAPS Administrative Map of Gurgaon District Frontispiece Gurgaon District Map showing population . Faci~g page 23 Maps of six Tahsils shOWing Schools, Dispensaries and Post Offices, .. Facing page 31 Maps of Tahsils showing boundaries of Villages . Facing pages xcv, xcix, ci, ciii, cv, & cvii PART I INTRODUCTION TO THE DISTRICT CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Name.-The District derives its name from its headquarte1s town 'Gurgaon' which is a corrupted fo~m of 'Guru Gram' or 'Guru Gaon', meaning the village of the preceptor. It is said that Yudhistar, eader of the Pandvas, gave this village to his Guru Daronacharya, and a tank named after him still exists to the west of the road leading from Gurgaon town to the railway station. Another version is that Daronacharya used to teach the Kaurvas and Pandvas at this place and afterwards this place came to be known as 'Guru Gram'. Location and Boundaries.-Gurgaon is the southern most of the six Distl'icts of the Ambala Division, and lies between 27°-39'-20" and 28°-32'-25° north latitude and 76°-18'-30" and '77°-32'-50" east longitude, for ming the extreme south-east corner of the Sta~e. It is very irregular in shape. Its northern boundary lies along the Jhajjar Tahsil of Rohtak District towards the west, and the union -territory of Delhi towards the east; the. Jumna flows along its eastern edge separating it from Bulandshahr and Aligarh Districts of Uttar Pradesh ; Ma thura District of Uttar Pradesh and Bharatpllr District of Rajasthan touch it in its south and the Alwar District of Rajasthan and Mahendragarh District of Punjab lie to its west. The Mahendragarh District covers a portion of its western border. The District headquarters is 19 miles south-west of Delhi. Area*.-The area of the District, according to Surveyor General, is 2,367.6 sq. miles but the Director of Land Records, Punjab puts it at 2,349.6 sq. miles. The District ranks eighth in area among the 19 Districts of the State, and.is distributed among six Tahsils as showQ. below :- AREA (SQ. MILES) Tahsil Total Rural Urban Rewari 554.6 549.1 5.5 Gurgaon 412.1 409.8 2.3 BaUabgarh 287.8 277.8 10.0 Palwal 381.7 378.7 3.0 Nuh 401.2 398.6 2.6 Ferozepur Jhirka 312.2 310.9 1.3 PHYSICAL FEATURES The land in the District slopes from west to east.