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Part VI Village Survey Monographs : 44 in number. each relating to an individual village P.ut II-S(i) Ganoral Economic Table~ ,'. )'art VB-A . Report on Selected Handi~rafts . B-1 to B-IV. B-VIII and '~ Pat,t II-B(ii) General Economic Tables (Tables Part VII·B Report and Tables on Fairs and B-Vto B-Vfi) Festivals Part II-C(i) Social and Cultural Tables Part VIII-A Administrative Report: Enumera- t * ~_. t d·;f t • .' :tion (Not for sale) -,..~. \..,. - " ! / '" Part n·C(ii) Migration Tables PartXIII-B Administrative Report Tabula- tion (Not for sale) Part III Household Economic Tables Part IX Socio-Economic. Atlas ~PUNJAB GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 19 Volumes OftptiCt~sJfa}1JW~r-' . \. '- ,_. DCH·I Hissar DCH·ll Ludhiana DCH·2 Rohtak DCH-12 Ferozepur DCH-3 Gurgaol DCH-13 Amritsar DCH·4 Karnal DCH·14 Gurdaspur· DeH-S Amba, .... DCH·I5, Kapurthala DCH·6 ..Simla ·.DCH-16 Bhatinda DCH·7 ~ 00B-17 Sansrur DCH·g Labaul & Spiti OCH-18 Patiala DCH-9 Hosruarpur DCH-19 Mahendragarh DCR-IO Jullundur PREFACE The reports and statistical volumes pertaining to the 1961<ensus fall under three broad groups on the basis of territory coverage. The All-India Reports and Tables compiled in the office of the Registrar General. Iudia, encompass the entire country. The reports compiled by the State Superintendents relate to individual States and Centrally Administered lerritories. The third group consists of District Census Handbooks. the scope of which is limited to individual Districts, and they give information for each town and village. The Hand books were coq::piled by the Superintendent of Census Operations, Punjab. but the State Government has undertaken their publication. ' The District Census Handbooks were published for tl!e-first time at the 1951-census. They proved very useful with the officers, working in Community Development Blocks. Tahsils and Districts, and were consul tcd in connection with elections, as also by students of social sciences interested in local problems. This Handbook contains the essential census data for each village and town (according to wards) in the District. Besides, some other useful information has been included in it, thus making it a self-contained book of reference for the District. ' -- The book is divided into four parts. Part I consists of four chapters. Chapter I introduces the District, giving information onits location, physical features, climate, fauna and flora, townscand places of interest, a brief history of the District and its administrative machinery. In Chapter II are discussed the use of land, main crops and irrigation, industries, trade and commerce, and communications. In Chapter III the salient features of population are discussed. Chapter IV deals with social and developmental activities, and achieve ments during the First and Second Five-Year Plans. In Part II are"presented the statistics secured from varIous Government Departments relating to rainfall. temperature, land utilisation, irrigation, area and yield -of principal crops, Jivestock, industry, co·operation. education, printing and publishing. entertainments, medical and health, births and deaths, transport and communications. community development activities, banks and insurance, and justice. At the end appears a Table on the fairs and festivals in the District. The Tables relating to the 1961-census are presented -in Part III. Part IV contains a Directory of Villages and Towns, showing which among them have educational institutions. hospitals and dispensaries, post and telegraph offices, electrification and protected water-supply; area; number of occupied residential houses and households living therein ; population ; persons belonging ,to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes; number of literate and educated persons; number of workers in nine broad industrial cat~gories ; and -number of non-workers. The book 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; the population of towns is shown bY' proportionate circles, and of rural areas by dots. For each Tahsil in the District two types of maps have been prepared, one showing the location of social amenities, and the second showing the boundaries of villages and towns. These maps were prepared by Sarvshri Gurmit Singh Gill, Economic Investi gator and Malkiat Singh, Draftsman. This publication is the outcome of the joint efforts of a large number of workers and Go.vernment Depart ments, and grateful acknowledgement is made of the help received from them. Within the Census Organisation mention needs to be made ofShri Jaswant Singh Dilawary. Office Superintendent, and Sarvshri Vishwa Mitter. Com putor and Jaswant La! Assistant Compiler, for preparing the Tables appearing in Part II, under the supervision of Shri T. P. Garg, p.e.s., Deputy Superintendent of Census Operations; and oLShti G.D. Singla, Tabulation Officer, and Sarvshri Joginder Nath Suri, Dharam Paul Jain, Statistical Assistants, and Ajab Lal Kakkar, Computor, for preparing the Tables appearing in Parts III and IV, under the supervision of Shri Pawan Kumar, the then Tabulation Officer. .~. Shri Madan Lal Sharma, Tabulation Officer, produced a comprehensive draft of this Handbook after paying a number of visits to th, "T)istrict, and after collecting valuable information by- personal observations and contact with a large number oh.Jicialsjnon-officials in the District. Shri B. S. Taneja; Stenographer rendered valuable help in typing the manuscript. Shri Joginder Nath $uri, Statistical Assistant, Sarvshri Ajab La1 Kakkar, Computor! Harish Chander Kapur. Proof Reader, and Jaswant Lal, Assistant Compiler rendered valuable assistance in seeing the report through the press. The organisation is indebted to Shri R. L. Anand, Ex-Superintendent of Census Operations, Punjab, Haryana and Union Territory of Chandigarh, for his overall direction, guidance and editing of this Report. Our thanks are due also to Shri K. C. Kuriyan. Controller of Printing and Stationery, and Assistant Controller Shri P. Ommen, for their personal attention in the printing of the book. H.S. KWATRA. J. L. ARORA; P.C.S. H.C.S. Deputy Superintendent of Census Operations, Deputy Superintendent of Census Operations, Punjab, Chandigarh. Haryana, Chandigarh. CHANDIGARH: June 21, 1969. CONtiNI'S PAGE .,ACE iii ff'·~-: - PART 1-INTRODUcnON ro THE DISTRICT 1-52 Chapter I--ID!I'oduction 3' Chapter I!__ Economy 21 Chapter III-Population 33 Chapter IV-SOCial and Devel~tal Activities 43 PART n-DIPARTMENrAL STADSnCS 53-149 Explanatory Note 57 Tables 61 PART m-CENSUS lTABLIS- 151-301 "Explanat<rry Notes 157 Ta~le~ 187 PART IV-DIRECTORY OF VILLAGES AND TOWNS 303-413 Explanatory Note 304 Directory 306 Al~ Lilt of Villaps 393 MAPS' Gurdaspur District: Tahsil boundaries, Tofts, Roads, llailways, lliven and canals Frontispiece Gurdasp\lr District: Distribution of Population, 1961 facing page 33 Location of' Schools, Dispensaries and Post Of'f'iccs : 1: Patnankot Tahsil 2. Gurdaspur Tahsil 3. Batala Tahsil facing page 43 ' Boundaries of Villages : ?athankot Tusil facing page 395 Gurdaspur Tahs!~ facing page 401 Ratala Tahsil ' facing page 409 PART I INTRODUCTION TO THE DISTRICT CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Name.-The District takes its name from the headquarters town. It was only a village when one Mahant Guriaji belonging to another village called Gurdaspur in the Pathankot Tahsil bought it and settled here. In due course it gained in importance and was later selected as the headquarters of the District. Location and boundaries.-The District lies in the north-west corner of Punjab on the Indo-Pakistan frontier, along the Indian side of the Ravi. It is somewhat like a gun in shape as if its two TahsiIs of Batala and Gurdaspur are the broad rear part and the third Tahsi of Pathankot is the barrel, the trigger and the striker. It is bordered on the north by J. & K. On the eastern side the rivers Chakki and Beas separate it from Kangra and Hoshiarpur Districts. Towards its south is the Amritsar, and on the west flows the river Ravi, on the other bank of which is the Sialkot District of West Pakistan.