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PRG. Ill. A. (N) 1200 . CENSUS Of INDIA 1961 VOLUME VI JAMMU AND KA'SHMIR PART II-A GENERAL POPULATION TABLES M. H. KAMILI Superintendent oj Census Operations ] amm'U and Kashmir PRINTED IN INDIA AT VISHINATH PRINTING PRESS, l{EslDENCY ROAD, SRlNAGAR PUBLISHED BY THE MANAGER OF PUBLICATIONS, DELHI-B 1964 ERRATA Page Particulars For Read 6. Line II under item 6 An area which has An area which has urban characteris a density of not less tics than 1000 persons per square mile. 9. Line 7, of second column below "Machha Bhawan" Nowshera Canu. Against Class VI, item 16 between Hiranagar and District Kathua. T.A. Against Class VI item 1 6 3856 2856 10. In first line of the page under the heading '1951 ' N. A. against each district. 12. 9th line from bottom of right hand column R. S. Pora Ranbirsinghpora. 31. Colamn 5 of the statement under para II against Jammu and Kashmir State 19 32. 2nd line from bottom. Under T (number of females per 1000 males) against Jammu and Kashmir State 778 878 Last line. Under T (Persons per occupied Census house) against Anantnag 8.0 7.0 Last line. Under R (Persons per occupied Census house) against Anantnag 8.0 7.0 33. First line from top, under "U" (Persons per occupied Census house) against Srinagar 9.0 8.0 47. Under column 9 against Ramnagar Tehsil (R) 69883 69833 Under column 10 against Jammu tehsil (R) 69093 66093 48. Column 3a* (Top) 3a* 3a Column 4 (Top) 4 4'" 61. In column 3 against plus (i) under Poonch Jagir, District Poonch (+) 886.0 (+) 806.0 ( ii) Fage Particulars For Read 75. 3rd line from tOP of left hand coluron 313666 313666 in 1901 5th line from top of left hand column the mean in 190) the mean popula. population of tion of 1941-61. 1941-61 4th and Sth line under Ladakh District of tehsil having of tehsil Kargil (right hand column) fallen Kargil on having fallen on 77. 2nd line from bottom of right hand column under adjusted population, 1911 251832 258832 78. Heading of column 1 Zone/State/Divi State/Province/ sion /District District Column 5 against '1951' of Kashmir Province +12.02 + 12.03 Column 5 against '1941' of AMntnag District + 5.80 + 5.81 81. Para 4 (Percentage Statement) Under year '1901·6]' against 'U' of Jammu and Kashmir State 273.7 273.1 83. Under '1961' against 'V' of Anantnag District 836 837 111. Under column 13 against Reasi Tehsil 10218 15278 121. 9th line from bottom R.S. Pora Ranbirsinghpota 124. 4th line from bottom, under column 2 6.52 sq. miles 6.25 sq. miles 176. Under column 23 against Jammu tehsil (R) 5928 4928 lSI. Under column It against Haveli tehsil (U) 96 95 189. Under column 1 I, Females against Gujarat (R) 7830222 7486504 191. Under column 12 against Madras (R) 1903 1003 194. Under column 4 against N.E.F.A. (T) ll@ II 2nd line from bottom (footnote) @ THE 1961 CENSUS PUBLICATIONS Part I General Report on the Census. IA General Report including appendix to table A-IV giving the constitution of each urban area for 1961. IB Report on Vital Statistics of the decade. IC General Report (Subsidiary Tables)~ Part II State Census Tables (including Union Tables for the Stato) on population. IIA General Population Tables (A-Series) (or the State aad Primary Census Abstract, including appendix to table A-IV. lIB Economic Tables (B-Series, Tables I-IX) for the State down to District and all Cities and Town-groups of and above 100,000 population. lIC Cultural and Migration Tables (C and D Series) for the State down to District and all Cities and Town-groups of and above 100,000 population. Part III Household Economic Tables (based on Household Schedules). Part IV Housing and Establishment Tables (E-Series) including Subsidiary Tables and Report on Housing and Establishment Tables. Part v Special Tables for Scheduled Castes (SCT and SC Tables). VA Special Tables on Scheduled Castes as well as reprints from old Census Reports on Castes and Tribes. VB Ethnographic notes on Scheduled Castes and backward classes. Part VI Village Survey Monographs (each monograph will carry a sub-number 1,2,3, etc.) Part VII Survey of Handicrafts of the State consisting of Tables for the State, district, tehsil, monographs on individual crafts and general lists of location, master craftsmen, etc. Part VIII Administration Report. VIllA Enumeration. "I ~ Not for sale. VIII B Tabulation. J Part IX Maps for Atlas Volume based on Census and Official Statistics. Part x Special Report on Srinagar City with a brief note On Jammu City. Note: In addition to~traJ ·P.!1pJj~HQ.P.~_ _]!\~.~~i~~~d ~1?~v.~,_~~~!~ )!UJ ']3.Q.._"b..~ S~~c _ Census publications, viz., one District Census Handbook for each of the nine districts. CONTENTS Preface Pages Note. i-xxxii TABLE A--l I. Fly-leaf to Table A-·I 2. Union Table A-I: Area, houses and population 36 3. State Table A--I: Area, houses and population 40 4. Fly-leaf to Appendix I to Table A-I 52 S. Appendix I to Table A-I: Statement showing 1941 territorial units constituting the present-set up of Jammu and Kashmir State SS 6. Sub-Appendix to Appendix I: Statement showing area for 1941 and 1961 for those Municipal Towns which have undergone changes in area since 1941 Census 62 7. Fly-leaf to Appendix II to Table A-I 63 8. Appendix II to Table A-I: Number of villages with a population of 5,000 and over and towns with a population of under ?,OOO 64 9. Explanatory note to Appendix II (List A): Places with a population of under 5,000 treated as towns for the first time in 1961 66 10. Explanatory note to Appendix II (List B): Places with a population of under 5,000 in 1941 which were treated as towns in 1941 but have been omitted from the list of towns in 1961 66 II. Fly-leaf to Appendix III to Table A-I 67 12. Appendix III to Table A-I: Houseless and Institutional popUlation 69 TABLE A--II 1. Fly-leaf to Table A -11 . 74 2. Table A--JI: Variation in population during sixty years (1901-1961) 78 3. Fly-leaf to Appendix to Table A-U 81 4. Appendix to Table A-II: Statement showing the disposition of districts in Jammu and Kashmir State in 1941 and 1961 Censuses 86 TABLE A-II1 1. Fly-leaf to Table A-Ill 106 2. Union Table A-III: Villages classified by population 112 3. State Table A--IIl: Villages classified by population. 114 4. Fly-leaf to Table A-III: Sub-groups of villages 118 (i i) TABLE A-IV i. Fly·leaf to Table A-IV 120 '2. Table A-IV: Towns (and Town .. groups) !:lassified by population ID 1961 , with variation since 1901 ",. " '123 3.. ,Note on Appendix to Table A-IV 133 4. Appendix to Table A - IV, New towns added in 1961 and towns in 1941 declassified in 1961 134 5. Explanatory Note A to Appendix to Table A-IV: showing the names and 1941 population of the villages which constitute each of the new towns added in 1961 135 6. Explanatory Note B to Appendix to Table A-IV: showing names, area and population of the village/villages into which such of tbe 1941 towns which have ceased to be towns in 1961 have relapsed 136 PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT 1. Fly-leaf to Primal)' Census Abstract .' 137 2. Union Primary Census Abstract ISO All India Table A-·J: Area, houses and population 186 PREFACE The Census of India,. Volume VI, has authorities of the town and notified areas been divided into ten parts some of which and municipalities. have been further sub-divided depending The table also gives separately the upon the volume of material of each number of inhabited and uninhabited part. Part II-A, the present publication, villages of which no list had been prepared contains General Population Tables(A-Series) after the tribal raids of 1947. and Primary Census Abstract. The former The table has also been prepared upto consists of four main tables, namely, tehsil level 'and gives in addition infor 1. A-I : Area, houses and population. ,mation in respect of each town-group, its constituents and every town and 2. A-II : Variation in population during sixty years, notified area. Three appendices have been appended 3. A-III: Villages classified by popu to this table. The first of these gives lation, and the 1941 territorial units constituting the 4. A-IV: Towns (and town-groups) present set-up of the State. The statement classified by population in given in the appendix is, however, provision 1961 with variation since al and subject to incorporation, adjustment 1901. and correction when the actual surveys A-I: Area, houses and population: arc made. The appendix mentions the The table gives information by districts details of the constituents of various and ,their rural and urban sectors in districts and tehsils some of which had respect of area, population per square to be reconstituted after they were split mile, number, of villages and towns, up by the Cease-fire Line, while others occupied residential houses and· sex-wise were newly carved out to facilitate population. The area figures of the State administrative work. on this side of the Cease-fire Line were The second appendix gives the number neither available with the Directorate of of villages with a popUlation of 5,000 Land Records of the State Government and over and towns with a population nor with the Survey of India.