1951 CENSUS HANDBOOK KOLAR DISTRICT BANGALORE: PRINTED BY THE DIRECTOR OF PRINTING, STATIONERY AND PUBLICATIONS AT THE GOVERNIHENT PRESS 1956 14 ~14~ ____-+ ______________ -r____________ __ ~--------------4---------~~---r~-+, ~· o~' 0' Mysore Census 1951 I (; I KOLAR I I ! DISTRICT I scale i'lnc h to 8 miles I; "I uS • I " , I ~ ~ " I LES I I [ ~5 (' H -itI i I I I ~ iI i I I • ! 8()IJnda rl:l . U ' m l (t & Tolu~ _ .. - . / ....... , . Railway •. £r"d &Ogougel h cr}I~s -=-:­ IR oads.Meto He d.T(unkOl he $_ - SUeanl$.Tan ks. .. ... " ,I I Tow", Toluk Clrcl, Head \ 0 • I QLl arrels! ....,- ~ ""'" Pipe li" .P .."L.", \Moin) _~_<J 1 o Ttl:: St, f1an. Int :Poin t ... llIS Hili., .. I O,k&lns pw'on &ungalaw \ D.B,I.a,R.H,T.6, Tr ¥ellers bunlokl'N.Rest Housel 0' 4S , E 45 ' 4S I [ _j J ._------------ ._---------- PREFACE THIS and the companion volumes in the District Census Handbook serIes, take the place of what used to be published at the previous Oensuses in Mysore as (, Part IV-Taluk Tables" and" Part V--Village Tables;" 2. Unlike the old Taluk Tables which presented for taluks only abridged versions of the more important tables in the All-India series, the tables included in these Hand­ books cover, with one exception, the entire range, and exhibit taluk or tractwise details for the prescribed sequence of A, B, C, D & E series published in Part II of the 1951 Census Report. The exception" C. I-Household (size and composition) ". Table, has been omitted here for reasons explained in a fly-leaf at the appropriate place. 3. Of the tables of the 1951 vintage presented here, the A series consists of General Population Tables, the B series of all the Economic Tables, the C of all the , agewise tables and the D series consists of all the social and cultural tables produced this ': time. Th~ solitary table of the E series exhibits summary figures for taluks. The age­ wise tables in the C series emei'ge for the first time from samples extracted at random. 4. Of the five series of tables presented in these Handbooks, talukwise data are offered in the :first and the last namely the A and E series. The intervening series exhibit figures only for tracts. Tracts are units constituted purely for tabulation con­ venience, by combining one or more areas, without reference either to their geogra­ phical contiguity or to administrative linkage. The rural areas of Qne or more taluks have been combined to constitute a rural tract, while all the urban areas of a district have been welded together to form a single DISTRICT URBAN tract. The three princi­ pal cities namely, Bangalore Corporation, Mysore and K. G. F. have, however, been constituted into separate tracts, Bangalore Corporation being split up into two tracts. one comprising the Civil area and the other embracing the whole of the City area. 5. The village statistics which used to be published separately in the past as Part V of the Mysore series, now appear in the Handbooks immediately after Table E, in considerably more amplified form than in the past. In addition to furnishing the usual popUlation and literacy figures for each village or town, details are offered now for the first time, regarding occupied houses, households, inmates of institutions~ houseless population and distribution of population by livelihood classes and sex. 6. The 1951 crop of Tables show many departures from established practice. Easily the most notable of them is the shift in the basis of classification this time from religion to economic. In the past the population was divided on the basis of religion at the very outset of sorting and this separation was maintained throughout the sorting operations in order that as many characteristics as possible might be croSs-tabulated by religion. But this time, the basic religioll8 categories ~ been substituted by 11 liveli1100d c1asses and these consequent1y pervade all the cross tabulations .carried out in 1951. According to this new scheme, the entire population has been divided, in the first instance, into two broad livelihood categories, namely agricultural and non-agricultural, and each category has been sub-divided into four livelihood .(~lasses. These eight classes are as follows:- CATEGORY A..-AgricuUural Olasses I Cultivation of land, wholly or mainly owned and their dependants II Cultivation of land, wholly or mainly unowned and their dependants III Cultivating labourers and their dependants IV Non-cultivating owners of land; agricultural rent receivers and their dependants CATEGORY B-Non-Agricultural Classes Persons (including dependants) who derive their principal means of livelihood from :- V I'roduction other than cultivation VI Commerce VII Transport VIII Other services and miseellaneous sources 7., It would be a good plan to study the fly-leaves before dipping into the tablell as they draw attention to special features of minor categories which might happen to have been omitted in the tables. 8. While the Talllk and Village Tables of the past were gifts of provincial dis~ cretion, these District Censlls Handbooks are being pllblished for the first time in thew present form in accordance with Central direction. G. NANJUNDIAH Census Commissioner for Mysore TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGES i-ii A-GF.NEftAL POPUL.~1'lO)'; TABLES 1-18 J -AI'ea, house,'; a,nd population 3--4 II -Variation in pupulation during fifty Y'!ltl'S I11--1'oWll" [lwl villageb e1at'sified hy pOJlu hti(,Il H-lO IV--Towns classified. hy population with Vlll'il1tiow; since 1901 11--15 V --Towns arranged tenitorially wlth population by liyelir,l,od elai"sl:~ ]7 18 J9-113 r ndian Ccnms Economic Classific.ation :-iclteme 21---:!4 A11 ne xure 25---:)0 Annexure n 31- 46 ,Annexure III 47 I--Livelihoco<] classes and Bub-classes 4.9-53 n-8econdary mean" of livelihood 55-75 III-Employer!.', employees and independent workers in industries and e{'rvjce~ by divisions nnd sub­ divisions 77-103 Index of non-agricnltl1l'lll occupations 105-113 {}- HOUSEHor,D AND AGE (SAMPLE) TABLES 115-155 I -Hou,~ehold (size and composition) 117 II-Livelihood cla8.':'cs b_v nge-group~ IlH-J29 III-Ag,~ and civil condition 131--137 IV -Age and literacy 139--]J4 V-Single yea.r a.ge-r{·tmHs ]45--1[,5 D--80CIAI. AND CULTURAL TABLES 157-217 I--Language (i) Mother-tongw' (ii) Bilingualism 163-169 T1-Heligion 171--17~ HI--Sehetlllled Cash''', !':\clH!duled Trihes an.-l Anglo-Indians 17:3-1H IV --Mig-I'antE 175--J99 y-- (i) DiRplac('lll"'r~ons by year of anivuJ 201- 21)2 (ii) Displaced pel'OOrlS by livelihood cla~se~ VI -~on-Indian ~Hti(lnab 205--206 ;>07 - ~\ 7 Il PAGES: E--8UMlIIARY FrauI:E'l BY TALUKS 219-221 223--391 1. Kolar District Ahstmct 224--231 2. Kolar Taluk 232--249 ., d. Mnlbagal Taluk 250--265 4. Srinivasapur Taluk 266-281 5. Chintamani Taluk 282-·29!J 6. Sidlaghatta Taluk 300--313 7. Bagepalli Taluk 314-325 8. Gudibanda Taluk 326-331 9. Goribidnur Taluk 332-343 10. Chikballapur 'faluk 344--355 11. Malur Taluk 356-371 12. Bangarpet Taluk 372-387 ]3. Kolar Gold Fields City. 388-391 A-General Population Tables A. I.-Area, houses and population 1. The Taluks in this Table are the same as in 1941 except that Bangarpet was formerly called Bowringpet. 2. The area of K. G. F. City was furnished by the Sanitary Board authorities while the areas of Taluks were furnished by the Amildars of Taluks. Differences in area between 1941 and 1951 are due partly to transfer of villages and partly to improve­ ment in the method of computation. 3. Vide fly-leaf of Table A. II. 3 f P1 t l I I I r I I 1I I I 1L I I I ...... ...... I ""...... l 00 '0o ~ o .0 ""...... t- '" .; '" ~ < ~. -I r - o 0'1 ",,'"" Il ..... "" o 00 <'> ~ e: t-: '" ..... <'> ....... 1:'1 ""'" ~ ~ ~ A. II-Variation in population during fifty years 1. Under the Provinces and States (Absorption of Enclaves) Order, 1950, the following villages have been exchanged between Madras and Kolar District :- (a) Villages transferred from Kolar District- Di.trict Taluk ViUage Kolar l. Bangarpet Varadikoppa Valagalakoppa (Jodi) Byparedclihalli Harakachinnapalli (K.G.) Gollahalli Hosapete Chinnaradoddi 2. Malur Koladasanapura (b) Villages transferred to Kolar District- From To ~------------~-----------~ ~-----,,-, District Taluk ViUage District Talulc 1. Salem Hosur Araleri .. ) Ravasandiram .. ~ Kolar Malur Bafanapalli •• I Ettakodi .. J 2. Anantapur Hindupur Tsondikuntapalli Kolar Gudibanda The net result of this exchange of enclaves is as follows :- Atea in sq1tare 1941 po-pulation miles Added (+) ~ Excl1tded (-) Persons Males Female8 Net variation 3.2 2,103 1,111 991 Added (+) +3,240 +1,679 +1,562 Excluded (-) -1,137 -568 -569 2. Figures for previous-Censuses have been adjusted as indicated below on account of transfer of villages in the case of Kolar, Malur, Bangarpet and Gudibanda Taluks :- No. of Population transferred FroTn TO' village8 ~------" -----. transferred 1941 1931 1921 1911 1901 J. Malur Kolar 27 7,359 6,398 5,824 5,795 5,284 2. Hosur (Salem) Malur 4 2,633 2,064 2,090 2,200 2,083 3. Hindupur (Anantapur) Gudibanda I 607 612 444 340 281 4. Bangarpet Madras 7 807 672 708 706 608 O. Malur Madras 330 318 287 370 284 A. Jl-Variation in population during fifty years year Persons Variation Net variation Males Variation Females Variation 1901-1951 1 2 a 4 5 6 7 8 KOLAR GOLD FIELDS CITY 1901 70,874 39,810 31,064 19l1 83,743 +12,869 46,521 +6,711 37,222 +6,158 1921 87,682 +3,939 47,487 +966 40,195 +2,973 1931 85,103 -2,579 45,051 -2,436 40,052 -143 1941 133,859 +48,756 70,428 +25,377 63,431 +23,379 1951 159,084 +25,225 +88,210 79,384 +8,956 79,700 +16,269 KOLAR DISTRICT 1901