,- - - --------_ ____r- ____ _ _ _ _ .__ I 1---------------------------------------- , I • , I Census of India, 1951 II DISTRICT CENSUS , . HANDBOOK UTTAR PRADESH I 18-FARll.UKHABAD DISTRICT \ ..1 I • ,... - - ALLAHABAD: • SuPER I.NTI:"·, . ', . 'F::N'l :-:- AND STATIONERY. UTTAR PRADESH, f '!>lol • 1!l 54 .- r--------.- - -----------I DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOO~ 1951 F ARRUKHABAD DISTRICT FOREWORD Several States, including Uttar Pradesh, have been publishing village statistics by districts at each census. In 1941 they were published in U. P. under the title "District Census Statistics" with a separate volume for each district. In the 1951 census, when the tabulation has been more elaborate than ever in view of the require ... ments of the country, the district ... wise volume has been expanded into a "District Census Handbook", which now contains the District Census Tables (furnishing data with break.... up for census tracts within the district), the District Index of Non .... agricultural Occupations, agricultural statistics from 1901 .... 02 to 1950 .... 51 and other miscellaneous statistics in addition to the usual village population statistics. The village population statistics also are given in an elaborate form giving the division of the population among eight livelihood classes and other details. 2. It may be added here that a separate set of district .... wise volumes giving only population figures of rural areas by villages and of urban areas by wards and mohallas and entitled "District Population Statistics" has already been published. This separate series was necessitated by the urgent requirements of the U. P. Government for elections to local bodies. The printing of the District Census Handbooks involves colossal work and is bound to take some time. RAJESHW ARI PRASAD, I.A.S., RAMPUR: Superintendent, Census Operations, December 3 I, 1954. Uttar Pradesh. CONTENTS Pagel> INTRODUCTION - A-The District i-ii B-Analysis of the Statistics iii-x C-Explanatory note on the Statistics x-xii PART I__;DISTRICT CENSUS TABLES A -:;E~ERAL POPUIA.TlON TABLES- A-I Area, Houses and Population .) A-II Variation in Population during Fifty ~ears 3 A-III Towns and Villages Classified by Population 4-5 A-IV Towns Classified by Population with Variations since 1901 6 A-V Towns arranged Territorially with Population by Livelihood Classes 7 E Area and Population of District and Tehsils by Livelihood Classes 8-9 B-EcONOMIC TABLEs- B-I Livelihood Classes and Sub-classes 10-13 B-II Secondary Means of Livelihood 14-23 B-Il I Employers, Employees and Independen t Workers in Industrieil and Services by Di visions and Sub-divisions 24-51 B-IV Unemployment by Livelihood Classes 52-53 Index of Non-agricultural Occupations 54-57 C-:1C>USBHOLD AND AGE (SAMPLE) TABLES­ C-l Household (Size and Composition) 58-59 C-Il Livelihood Classes by Age-grou;ls 60-65 C-III Age and Civil Condition 66-6\> C-IV Age and Literacy 70-73 C-V Single Year Age Returns 14--81 D -SOCIAL AND CULTURAL TABLES- D-I Languages (i) Mother Tongue 82-83 fii) Bilingualism 84-85 j):IIIWigion 86-87 D-11 I Schetiuled Castes 86-87 D-IV Migrants 88-91 D-V (i) Displaced persons by year of arrival in India 92-93 (ii) Displaced persons by Livelihood Classes 92-93 D-VI Non-Indian Nationals 92-93 D-VlI Livelihood Classes bv Educational Standards 94-99 PART {I-VILLAGE, TOWN, PARGANA AND THANA STATISTICS 1 Primar~· Census Abstract " 102-157 2 Pargana and Thana-wise Population 158 PART III-MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS Vital Statistics 160-163 2 Agricultural Statistics-(i) Rainfall 164-165 (ii) Area as classified with details of area under cultivation .. 166-169 (iii) Cropped Area 170-185 (iv) Irrigated Area 186-189 3 Live-Stnck, Agricultural Machinery and Implements 190-193 4 List of Primary Schools 194-197 INTRODUCTION A-THE DISTRICT 1. The district of Farrukhabad lies along the Ganga which forms its northern and easterD beunti:uy ... On the west of the district are Etah and Mainpuri, on the south and south­ east are Etawah and Kanpur, on the east is Hardoi and on the north are Shahjahanpur and Buclaun. The district has a total area of 1,607 square miles which is less than the a~erage district area of the State. Its population in 1951 was about 10'9 lakhs. It has 4 tehstls, 16 parganas and 18 thanas. 2. The district is level plain varied only by a few gentle undulations and by the slopes, Topography sometimes gradual and sometimes abrupt, which lead down to the river valleys. The only marked variation of level is between the two divisions in which the district naturally falls­ the upland, or bfl.1lgar which is a continuation of the Doab plain, and the lowland, or tarai, cut away from the upland by the erosive action of the rivers. The bangar and the tarai are to ~e found in all the tehsils. In tehsil Farrukhabad the Ganga tarai is not very extensive and IS separated from the bangar by sharply defined cliff. In tehsil Kaimganj the tarai has been formed by the erosive action of the Ganga and is sometimes covered by its waters. Mast of the tehsil constitutes the watershed between the Ganga and the Bagar, and the country south of the latter has strongly marked usar characteristics. Tehsil Kannauj is divided into upland 8Il(1-~lewItme,.,.thethree rivers, the Ganga, the Kali Nadi and the Isan. The ravines are ov«grown with sarpat grass while it is always liable to the ravages of kartS and dab. In tehsil Chhibramau the JVhole tract consists of bangar or upland and tarai or the lowland adjoining rivers Ganga and Isan. The Isan country consists of a belt of tarai land, followed on the south by a belt of bhur broken up by erosion in many places into a net work of ravines. The Ganga tarai, which is marked off from the bangar by a stiff abrupt cliff, is very small and con­ tains no cultivation. Several large stretches of dhak jungle are to be found. The Ganga is the main drain into which all the rivers fall with a general course from west to east, .~ smaller drainage channels in their turn running generally north and south fro~ the watersheds of the rivers. The principal rivers and streams are Ganga, Ram Ganga, Kah Nadi, Isan, Burh Ganga, Bagar, Pandu and the Rind. Of these the first four alone are paren­ Dial, the rest being mere channels for the escape of surplus drainage and ceasing to flow soon after the close of the monsoon. Though the Ganga is constantly changing its course its move­ ments from side to side are for the most part slow and gradual with a tendency to continue in one directiDn for many yean t~h€l'. WMD swoll@B by raing Ram Ganga fre.qlJently floods the lowlands and leaves behind a sterile deposit of sand. Kali Nadi forms the border of Farrukhabad and Mainpuri. Thert! are a number of lakes and jhilS. In Chhibramau tehsil Talgram pargall3 contains no less than eight large jhils. In Kannauj tehsil pargalla l'irwa has also a large number of important jhils. 3. Throughout the district the soils are divided into three natural classes of dumat or SoUs loam, matiyar or clay and bhur or sand. But though the same nomenclature is employed for both the upland and the lowland soils, they differ greatly in character. In the upland the names have the same meaning as elsewhere in the Doab. Dumat is a fertile loam which is soft to the touch when powdered. Bhur is a sandy soil, rough to the touch. Matiyar is the stiff clay which ordinarily grows rice in the rains; when dry it splits into fissures and becomes as hard .as baked brick. But in tara; the soil is everywhere al1uvial, consisting of a stratum of loam .of varying thickness more or less intermixed with sand overlying a bed of white river sand. When the admixture of sand is l~rge it is known as bhur, when rice is commonly grown on it it is called matiyarwhile in other cases it is classified as dumat. In the Ganga tarai this layer ·of loam is generally not more than two to four feet in depth, where it is known as papar, but it thickens and improves in quality towards the cliff, receiving in Kannau] tehsil the special name kachoha. 4. The figures of the classification of the area during the last fifty years are given in Classi;ficatioa Table 2 of Part III of this volume. The proportion of the area under the various catego.ries of area works out as follows for 1950-51 : Actual figures Percentage (in acres) Cultivated area 681,613 64'3 Cultivable waste (excluding current fallow) 168,812 15'9 ,Current falfow 40,457 3'8 Forest 2 0'0 Area not available for.cultivation of which- 169,624 16'0 (a) Covered wi1h water 51,827 4'9 (b) UIUiu #Us, ,..oads _,j buildings 30,184 2',8 (c) Barren 87,613 8'3 ii The figu;e in the above. table. regarding culturable. waste taken from t~ Season and Crop Report IS, however, mislead mg. The State AO'rtcultur'e Department cbQd t d . 1949-50 a detailed enquiry through the District Oflice;s regarding the nature of t~ e '.n each district. The following analysis of the area resulted from this enqviry : area m Area Particulars (in acres) Percentage Total culturable waste (A+B+C) 170,923 100 !\-Area under culturable waste land not available for immediate cultivation 53,712 31'42 (i) Forest under any legal enacrlnent ,.