CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK PARBHANI Part A-Town & Village Directory Part B-Primary Census Abstract Compiled by THE MAHARASHTRA CENSUS' OFFICE BOMBAY PRated in India by 'tbe Manager, Nayan Printing Press, Gandhi Road, Ahmedabad-I, aDd Publtshed by the Director, Government PriDtins and Statiooc:ry Maharashtra State. Bomba"_'4 1973 A U RAN GAB ADD. , .0 ..I' .C> - o » ,C> ....~ & m Oi o () -; 3: c » () :f D. o ...o I ....o I I .... C> IH oe CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 Central Government Publications Census Report, Series Il-Maharashtra. is published in tbe following Parts I-A and B General Report I-C Subsidiary Tables II-A General Population Tables U-B General Economic Tables lI-C Social and Cultural Tabl.!s lI-D Migration Tables III Establisbment--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 VIae Survey Reports on Selected Villages VII R~~ort on Graduates and Technical Personnel VIlI, A :A.,:W1inistration Report-Enumeration ( For official use only) II] 1\dminisLation Report--Tabu]ation (For official use only) ]X Census Atlas of Maharasbtra Etate Government Publications 25 Volumes of DistriCt Census Handbooks in English 25 Volumes of D~strict Census Handboo~<s in Marathi Alphabetical List of Villages in Maharashtra (in Marathi ) INTRODUTION This is the third edition of district census handbooks brougbt out largely on the basis of the material collected during each decennial census of our population. Earlier editions had appeared after the 1951 and tbe 1961 censuses. The present volume generaJly follows the pattern of its predecessors in presenting tbe 1971 census tables for tbe district and basic detnographic, economic and general information for each village therein. Particulars of the distribution of population down to the smallest administrative unit like village and town and their broad cbaracteristics are required for purposes such as delimitation of electoral constituencies, adjustment of administrative boundaries. educational and man­ power planning. The data provided for sman areas aene as statistical frames for various surveys tbat may be taken up. Part A of this bandbook gives information relating to each village and town in the district. Revenue and municipal officials all over the district helped us in conecting the data for this sectIOn. Part B carries the 1971 primary census abstracts which present the population for each vilIage and urban block. The ilems covered are area, populatIon and its sex: break-up, houReholds, 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 the reference dale. Part C, which wiH be published separately this time, will have a general note on tbe physical features of the district. its admistrative set-up. its demograpbic and socio-economic charaq1cristics. It will include further census tables, detailed official statistics on climate, rai,nfaU. agriculture, industry. education, health and the like. In 1941, the population figures for villages and towns were exbibited 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 clas'Ics 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 tbe 1961 census. the scope of the handbook was enlarged. In addition to tbe census data· in respect of each village and town. other official statistics for each district were made available. with an introductory note explaining the salient features of the districts. The Village directory published as a part of the 1961 bandbook carried basic census dala included in the primary census abstrdcts; it indicated the amenities available in each Village and town by means of abbreviations. These included postal, medical and educallon faCilitIeS. SOUrces of water supply and bazar day. It was found thai the primary census abstracr, which needed a Jarge nu'mber of columns to present different data. aHowed very little space fOf information on amemries. As a result, the district censuS handbook bas been divided into tbree parts in 1971 as mentioned above. The. town and village directory of 1971 (pan A) gives information OD amenities and faci­ lities available in each town and viUage in the districts of Maharashtra. The particulars are presented tahsil wise under each district. The villages and towns are arranged according to tbelr census location code numbers. The particulars in the village directory were collected througb tbe revenue agency of the district on a prescribed form. For the town directory. six statements were compiled. Stale­ 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 areas and by the revenue agency for non-municipal towns. For purposes of the census, districts are divided into urban and rural areas. The urban area ( towns) is defined iu 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): (1) every place having a municipality or a cantonment board irrespective of its population; (2) every other place which had (;) a popUlation of at least 5,000. (ii) at least three-fourths of its male working population engaged in non-agricultural pursuits, and (iii) a density of population of tV INTRODU CTION at least 400 persons per sq. kOl : (3) any other place not falling under the above two categories but which possesses certain di~tinct charactel iSlics to qualify for its being treated as urban such as its being a project area or a developing township. A place is called a village if it does not satisfy any of the criteria prescribed above for its being ueated as urban. A 'village' for census purposes in Mahar.H.hlra has always been the <revenue vi1-lage' 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 had some population and did not take into account deserted or unihabited revenue villages. As in 1961. a vil1age 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 bas 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 (bamlets). Each revenue village has a specified area marked as its own and its boun­ daries with olher adjoining villages have always enjoyed a traditional sanctity. Hamlets do not have such defined boundaries or areas distinctly marked or allotted to them; Dor do they have any 10cal1y recognised status. Revenue villages which do not have any residential population are also included in the 1971 census defiDltion of villllgeS. Th~y 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 ODe baving a population of less than 25. Wherever a revenue village situated on tbe outskirts of a town is whol1y or partly merged in that urban area. It has been treated as a separate village. The population residinS in tbat area which IS statutorily merged in the town limits bas been treated as urban population of that town; the residual population, if any, residing in the area outside the limits of tbe town is alone treated as the population of that vi1lage. Thus. a few partly merged villages have returned some popnlations. The population for all fuJly merged villages has been treatad as urban population. While the 1971 census viIJage is thus completely identified with the revenue village, forest vj))ages make an exception. Tbey 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 name the district aod tabsi1 headquarters. other towns and bigger villages. Smaller villages are indicated by location code numbers. An alphabetical list of vilJages and towns faces each map. Hi1Ty regions and uplands are tinted. Rivers and communications are also shown. Shri D. V. Rangnekar. deputy director of census operations (Hq.). laid tbe groundwork for the entire operation. His experience and guidance have been of great value at every stage. Shri G. A. Walawalkar Bnd 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. K umari V. I. Nimbalkar. tabulation officer. prepared Part B based on primary census abstracts. Shri S.