CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 RAJASTHAN DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK JAISALMER DISTRICT c. S. GUPTA OF THB INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE Superintendent of CensU$ Operations. Rajasthan Printed by Maratla] Z. Gandhi. at Nayan Printing Press. Ahmedabad-I. FOREWORD The Census data has always been considered as indispensable for day to day administration. It is increasingly being considered now as the foundation stone of all regional planning. The publication of this series of District Census Handbooks wherein census - statistics is made available for smaller territorial units is, therefore, a significant occasion for it fills many existing gaps in statistics at the lower levels. Many interesting details have been revealed by the Census 1961 and I hope persons engaged in the administration of the State and public in general will appreciate the value and the effort that has gone into the production of such a standard book of reference. I congratulate the Superintendent of Census Operations, Rajasthan, Shri C. S. Gupta I. A. S. and his colleagu,es who have done a good job with skill and perseverence. B. MEHTA JAIPUR, Chief Secretary 1st Alarch. 1966. to the Government of Rajasthan- PRft'ACE The District Census Handbooks, to which series the present volume belongs, are the gifts of the Census of India and were first introduced in 1951. The 1961 series of District Census Handbooks are more elaborate than their counter-part in 1951 and present all important census data alongwith such other basic information as is very z:elevant for an understanding of the district. A wide variety of information which the Census 1961 collected has already been released in several parts as mentioned elsewhere in this book. The information contained in the present volume will be found useful by the Government, the district administration, persons engaged in regional planning, social workers and scholars in the field of humanities. Unfortunately these Handbooks became available to the users rather late in the decade. This was due to difficulties in printing. The Government Press Jodhpur, to whom this work was assigned by the State Government, had a heavy back­ log of printing and found it impossible to print all the books in the series itself. Arrangements had therefore to be made to get these printed through a private press. I trust a more expeditious method for printing of such valuable matter in time will be devised in future. I am grateful to Sllri Asok Mitra, Registrar Gcaeral, India for his guidance in this work from time to time. I am greatly beholden to the State Government for their kindly agreeing, as they also did in 1951, to get this series published at their cost. I Dr. U. B. Mathur, Dy. Superintendent Census Operations, Rajasthan assisted me in editing this series. Tabulation Officer Shri S. R. Luhadia assiduously worked for compilation of the information presented in the book and has seen it through the press. Many of the facts and figures incorporated in the book were built up after scrutiny of II. lot of raw material and by personal contacts. This task was admirably done by Shri Ram Autar Gupta, Statistical Assistant. Without their sincere cooperation and the assistance rendered by various members of the staff, mentioned overleaf, who were associated with this work, it would have been hardly possible to present the information which is the subject matter of tbis book. I tbank tbem a11. C. S. GUPTA JAIPUR. Superintendent. 15th August, 1966. Census OperatiOns, Rajasthan. OTHER MEMBERS OF 'THE STAFF ASSOCIATED WITH THIS WORK Shri Wali Haider CompuTor Shri R. N. Verma Computor Shri T. C. Patni Compiler Shri B. B. Dave Compiler Shri D. L. Badiwal Compiler Shri M. L. Kumawat Draftsman Shri D. L. Verma Asstt. Draftsman Shri M. M. Goyal .oM Proof Reader Shri O. P. Avasthy ... Proof Reader CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD iii PREFACE v SECI10N I (i) INTRODUCTION .. , (iii) SECI'lON n 1 PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT 3 (i) DISTRICT }>RIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT 8 (ii) RURA.L PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT 12 Ramgarh TehsiI 12 , , ..Nachna Tehsil 12 laisalmer Tehsil 14 Pokaran Tehsil 18 Sam Tehsil 22 Fatehgarh Tehsil 28 (Hi) URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT 34 OTHER CENSUS TABLES 37 A-SERIES-GENERAL POPULATION TABLES NOTE 39 TARLE A-I Area, Houses and Population 41 APPENDIX-I Statement showing 1951 territorial units constituting the present set-up of the district ••• 42 ANNEXURE TO APPENDIX-I: List of villages affected in the transfers 43' APPENDIX-II Villages with a population of 5,000 and over and towns with a population under 5,000 45 APPENDIX-Ill Houseless and Institutional Population 46 vii TABLE A-II Variation in population during sixty years (1901-1961) 46 APPENDIX Statement showing 1951 population according to their territorial jurisdiction in 1951, changes itt area and the population involved in those changes 47 TABLE A-III Villages classified by population 48 TABLE A-IV Towns classified by population jn 1961 with variation since 1901 ._ 50 B-,SERIES-ECONOMIC TABLES NOTE 51 APPENDIX Standard Industrial Classification 55 TABLE B-1 Workers and non-workers classified by sex and broad age-groups 64 TABLE B-III­ PART A Industrial classification of workers and non-workers by educational levels in urban areas on]y 68 PART B Industrial classification of workers and non-workers by educational levels in rural areas only 70 TABLE B-IV­ PART A Industrial classification by sex and class of worker of persons at w&-k at household industry PART B Industrial classification by sex and class of worker of persons at work in non-household industry, trade, business, profession or service PART C Industrial classification by sex and divisions, major groups and minor groups of persons at work other than cultivation ApPENDIX TO TABLE B-IV PART C so SUPPLEMENTARY TABLE TO TABLE B-IV PART C : Tehsilwise industrial classification by sex and divisions of persons at work other than cultivation in rural areas only 81 TABLE B-V Occupational classification by sex of persons at work other than cultivation 83 APPENDIX 102 FLY LEAF 103 TABLE 8·VI Occupational divisions of persons at work other than cultivation classified by sex, broad agewgroups and educational levels in urban areas only .•. 104 viii TABLE B-VII­ PART A Persons working principally (i) As cultivators (ii) As agricultural labourers or (iii) At household industry classified by sex and by secondary work (i) At household industry (ii) As cultivator or (iii) As agricultural labourer 108 PART B Industrial classification by sex of persons working in Don­ household industry, trade" business, profession or service who are also engaged in household industry 110 TABLE B-VIII­ PART A Persons unemployed aged 15 and above by sex, broad age­ groups and educational levels in urban areas only 111 PART B Persons unemployed aged 15 and above by sex, and educational levels in rural areas only 113 TABLE B-IX Persons not at work classified by sex, broad age-groups and type of activity 114 TABl E B-X Sample households (i) engaged neither in cultivation nor house­ hold industry (ii) engaged either in cultivation or household in­ dustry but not in both and (iii) engaged both in cultivation and household industry for all areas 116 Sample households engaged in cultivation classified by interest in land and size of land cultivated in rural and urban areas separately 117 )LE B-XII Sample households engaged in cultivation only classified by size of land cultivated and number of family workers and hired workers in rural and urban areas separately 118 3LE B-XIII Sample households engaged both in cultivation and household industry showing size of land cultivated classified by principal household industry in rural and urban areas separately 125 (iii) ., ;\BLE B-XIV- Sample households engaged only in household industry classified by principal household industry in all areas 126 PART A Households classified by major groups of principal household industry and number of persons engaged 126 PART B Households classjfied by minor groups of principal household industry 127 TABLE B-XV Sample households engaged both in cultivation and household industry classified by size of land in rural and urban areas sepa­ rately 128 TABLE B-XVI Sample principal household industry classified by period of working and total number of workers engaged in household industry in all areas 130 APPENDIX 13S TABLE la-XVII Sample households classified by (i) number of male and female members by size of households and (ii) engagement (a) neither in cultivation nor in industry (b) in household industry only and (c) in' cultivation sub-classified by size of land cultivated 136 Lx Jaisalmer. C-SERIES--SOCIAL AND CULTU:RAL TABLES NOTE 13& TABLE C-J Composition or sampk households by reJationshipe to head of family classified by size of land cultivated 140 TABLE C-Il Age and Marital Status 141 TABLE C-III­ PART A Age. Sex and Education in aU areas 144 PART B Age, Sex and Education in urban areas on1y 145 PART C Age, Sex and Education in rural areas only 146 TABLE CIV Single year Age returns 149 TABLE C-v Mother Tongue ISO TABLE C-VII Religion IS3 TABLE C-VIU Classification by literacy and indus.trial category of workers and non-workers PART A (Among Scheduled Castes) ]54 PART n (Among Scheduled Tribes) 155 E-SERIES-HOUSIN6 TABLES' NOTE 156 TABLE E-I Census houses' and the uses to which: they are put 158 TABLE E-1I Tenure status of sample census households living in census houses used as dwe1Jings 159 TABLE E-IV Distribution of sample househo~9s living in .census houses used wholly or partly as dwellings by predominant material