1951 CENSUS HANDBOOK MYSORE DISTRICT BANGALORFl : PRINTED BY THE DIRECTOR OF PRINTING, STATIONERY AND PUBLICATIONS AT THE GOVERNMENT PRESS 1956 r===- I 76 0 15 13' Mysore Cen sus 1951 T.wns:Tol,k,Clrc/,H,, / p QUill" IplUn,P.WtI li"IMol' MYSORE T'iI 5101I.n, llIl rol'I... ., Hil i.. , M~/"p~ li" B un lo l ""lD,I,/.8,R,H,T , ! , DISTRIC T r'ml/m bv,tol.w,R"1 HOI'" r H"'qua:lers.(ei lcles hovi } scale 1 1~(h to 8 mil e5 o l 'P.I . tl on 'f " , o~ . m'" SO lU ! K' CBI ' I I I ~ I ' 10 Hil i ___ ~O=' h =" C='rc~!' H:_:_" =dq U"I~ 1 _ ~. r ~~33§§~~~ N.I, AiIT. h ' ~-[ --- __ ._ _____-!_~ I . " . re dcctrlcilr ElcePlth,s,r ..n l 30 15 IS L~_:..:;:..12° +-_ _ 0' I I I I I,,' .. ,;_ .. ~. • PREFACE THIS and the companion vohunes in the District Census Handbook series, take . the place of what used to be published at the previous Censuses in l\fysore '3.& " Part IV ---Talnk Tables" and " Part V-- Village Tables." 2. Unlike the Taluk Tables of the past which used to present only abridged versions of the more important tables of the All-India series, the tables included in these Handbooks cover the entire Tange with the exception of the C series, and offer taluk or tractwise details for the prescribed Reries of tables published in Part II of the 1951 Census Report. The age-wise tables of the C series are omitted in these Handbooks hecause the samples from which these ta bles have been constructed afe too small to be of any statistical significance at the tract or taluk level. 3. Of the tables of the 1951 vintage presented here, the A series consist of General Population Tables, the B series of all the Economic Tables, the D series of all the Social and Cultural Tables produced this time and tIle solitary table of the ,E series exhibits summary figures for taluks. 4. Of the four 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 one or more taluks have been combinerl 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, My sore 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 tlw basis of religion at the very outset of sorting and this separation was maintained throughuut the sorting operations in order that as many characterlsti0s as possible might be cross-tabulated by re]jgion. But this time, the basic religious categories have been substituted by 11 livelihood classes and these consequently 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 classes. These eight classes are as follows·:- CATEGORY A-Agt"imtltural Classes 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-cultiv3,ting owners of land; agricultural rent receivers and their dependants CATEGORY B-Non-Agricnltural Classes Pel'sons (including dependants) who derive their principal means of livelihood from :- V Production (other than cultivation) VI Commerce VII Transport VIn Other services and miscellaneous sources 7. It would be a good plan to study the fly-leaves hefore dipplllg UltO the tables a,s they draw attention to special featmes and offer details 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 Censns Handbooks are being published for tIle first time in theit present form in accordance with Central direction. G. NANJUNDIAH, Oensus Comm issioner for illysort. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE A-GENER-\L POl'ULATIO~ TABJ,~;S 1-18 . I-Area, houses and pOPlllation 3-4 H--Variation in population during flfty years .. 5--7 III--Towlls :.lild \'illag<3s classified by population Q-IO IV·--Towns clas~.ified by population with variations ~ince 1901 11--1fi V-Towns arranged terrItorially with population by livelihood Clal:ises 17-18 B-BcOSOlllIC TABLES 19-113 Indian Census E<;onomic Olassificatiun Scheme 21-24 Annexure I 2tJ-30 Annexure 11 31--4{-) Annexure III 47 I--Livelihood Classes <llld Sub-Classes 48-53 II--Secolllbry means of Ii v-elihood 35--75 III--Employers, employees and independent workers in industries and ~el'viceB hy divi;;ioll~ and BU b­ divisions 77-W3 Index of non-agricultnral occupat.ions 105- 113 D--SOClAL .\:\'D CULTURAL TABLES 115--164 I --Language ]17-128 (i) Mother-tongue 117-120 (ii) Bilingualism 121--128 II--Religion 129-130 III--Scheduled C:)'stes, Scheduled Tribes and Anglo-Indians 131-132 IV-Migrants 133--H7 V-(i) Dit;placed Persons by year of arrival {149-150 (ii) Displaced pel'Sons by livelihood classes VI-Non-Indian Nationals 151--152 VII-Livelihood cla.BseB by educationa,l ;:,tand,lras E-SUMMARY FIGURES BY T.\LUKS IfJ:j~·167 PRIMARY CE':<SUS AUSTRACT-(VILLAGE STATISTICS) 169--265 L AIysore City 170---171 2. Mysore District Abstract li2--1 77 3. ~iysore 'l'aluk 178--185 4. Krishnarajnagar Taluk li)(l-193 I 5. Hunsur Taluk 191-2(13 6. Periapatna Taluk 204-213 7. Heggaddevankote Taluk 214-227 8. Gundlupet Ta~uk 228~235 9. Chamarajnagar Taluk 236-245 10. Nanjangud Taluk 246-255 11. T.-Narsipur Taluk 256-263 12. Yelandur Taluk 261-265 A-General Population Tables A. I.-Area, houses and population 1. The talnks in this table are the same as in 1941. 2. The area of Mysore City was furnished by the Municipal authorities, while the area:;: 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 improvement in the method of computation. 3. Vide fly-leaf of Table A. II. 4. "1'owns" consist exclusively of Municipalities. ..,. r I \ I I I I j 1 1 6 I l '>, I I I r l 1 L I c:; I~ if) [~ Il '>' '>,'>1 "" 4 ., A. ll-Variation in population during fifty years L Under the Provinces and States (Absorption of Enclaves) Order, 1950, Badagalpura village in Chamarajnagar Taluk was transferred to the Madras State. On account of this transfer the area of Chamarajnagar Taluk as well as that of the district sustain a loss of O· 63 square mile, while tIle population figures remain unchanged by reason of Badagalpura being a Bechirak Village. 2. Figures of previous censuses hav been adjusted on account of transfer of villages in the case of H unsur and Periapatna Taluks as under :- No. of Population transferred Froln To ?Jillages ,--------" --.. _- tron-iferred 1941 1931 1921 1911 1901 HUIlRur P{'liapatllu J!) ]3,:318 11,016 ]O,97J 11,494 ]0,324 A. II---Variation in population during- fifty years Year Pf'I'SOllS rarintion _!I;"0t variation :\r~ Ie., Ynrintioll Fornal,," ITariati,)Jl l!l()]-lfl.il ] ? 3 4 lj (j 7 8 m'RORE C[T\" 1901 68,111 -:" 34,328 33.783 1911 71,306 ·+.3,195 36.112 +1,784 35,194 +1.411 1921 83,951 +12,645 43,783 +7,671 40,168 +4,974 1931 107,142 +23,191 56,772 +12,989 50,370 +10,202 1941 150,540 +43,398 78,967 +22,195 71,573 +21.203 1951 244,323 +93,783 +176,212 125,459 +46,492 118,864 +47,291 \[YHOH.~; Dll:'1'HlC1' 1901 741,620 367,922 373.698 1911 763,454 +21,834 379,433 +11,511 384,021 +10,323 1921 773,508 +10,054 386,062 +6,629 387,446 +3,425 1931 818.046 +44,538 410,097 +24,035 407,949 +20,503 1941 909,002 +90,956 460,752 ·j-50,655 448,250 +40.801 1951 1,040,448 +131,446 +298.828 526,948 +66,196 513,500 +65.250 f; A. II-Variation in po pula tion during fifty years--concld.