CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK DHULIA Part A-Town & Village Directory Part B-Primary Census Abstract Compiled by THE MAHARASHTRA CENSUS OFFICE BOMBAY Printed io India by tbe Manager. Nayan Printing Press. Gandhi Road. Ahmedabad-I. aDd Published by the Director. Government Printing and Stationery Maharaahtra State. Bombay-4 1973 (Priee--R.. Eigbt) vo ;g w 'i: l-'" E g ;;;; +1 ,.,C> ....0 C> ,_ .... .....C> ~ ~ :! ,_ I- ....., :c C> V> .... c:II «a: C> c:c < __, ~ ~ ::;:) ::t: ::c ~ o ,'0 N o ' 00 r o ",<6-.' ,. ""\ .. --.,. , , i "'.... , . v v n CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 Centl'al Govel'nment Publications Census Report, Series II-Maharashtra. is published in the following Parts I-A and B General Report I-C Subsidiary Tables II-A General Population Tables U-B General Economic Tables II-C Social and Cultural Tables II-D Migration Tables III Establisbment--Report and Tables IV Housing-Report and Tables V Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Maharashtra--Tables VI-A Town Directory VI-B Speeial Survey Reports on Selecred Towns VI-C Survey Reports OD Selected Villages VII Report on Graduates and Technical Personnel VIII-A Administration Report-Enumeration (For official use only) VIII-B Administration Report-Tabl1latien ( For official use only) IX Census Atlas of Maharashtra State Government Puldic-ations 26 Volumes of District Census Handbooks In ,English 26 Volumes of District Census Handbooks in Marathi Alphabetical List of Villages iB Maharashtra (in Marathi) INTRODUC'l'ION This is the third edition. of district censl.Is handbooks brouglrt out largely on the ba!iis" of the material collected durmg each decennial census of our population. Earlier editions had appeared after the 1951 and the 1961 censuses. The present volume generally follows the pattern of its predecessors in presenting the 1971 census tables for the disti'ict and basic demographic, economic and general information for each village therein. Particulars of the distribution of population down to the smallest administrative unit like village and town and their broad characteristics are required for purposes such as delimitation o( electoral constituencies. adjustment ofadmjpistratiye boundaries, educational and man­ power planning. The data provided for small areas serve as statistical fragles for various surveys tbat may be taken up. Part A of this handbook gives information relating to eacI-c lillage and town in the district. Revenue and municipal officials all over the district helped us in collecting the data for this, section. Part B carries the 1911 primary cens)Js abstracts which present the population for each village and urban block. The items covered are area, population and its sex break-up, households. occupied houses, literacy, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. workers aod non­ workers with a break-up of workers into broad industrial categories. The population figures given here have the sunrise of 1 April 1911 as tbe reference date. Part C. which will be publisbed separately thi» time. will have a general n4!)te 00 the physical features of the district, its administrative set-lip, its demographic and socio-economic characteristics. It will include further census tables, det,ailed official statistics on climate, rainfall. agriculture, industry, education, health and the like. In 1941. the population figur~ for villages and towns were exhibited according to com~­ monitiest in the village handbooks published by the Government- of Bombay. In 1951, the basis of census classification changed from a social to an economic one; census: data for viUages and towns were presented according to eight livelihood classes jn the pdmal'Y census abstracts published.in the district census handbooks. This' was the first oCCaSiQD when district, census handbooks were brought out. The handbooks contained information ~I diffe.tem amenities available in respect of each vilJage and town. During the 1961 census, the scope of the handbook was enaarged~ In addition to the:­ census data in respect of each village and town, other official statistics -fOF each.distriet were made available, with an introductory note explaining the salient features· of the districts. The village directory published as a part of the 1961 handbook carried basic census data included in ,the primary census abstracts; it indicated tbe amenities available in each village aDd tOWD by means of abbreviations. These included postal. medical and educational facilities. sources of water supply and bazar day. It was found that the primary census abstract. which needed 8 large number of columns to present different data. allowed very little sr>ace for information on amenities. As a resalt, the district censuS handbook hal been divided into three parts _in 1971 as mendoned above. The town and village directory of 1971 (Part A) gives Inform-atiell on amenltieaand!f'ael- . litles available in each town and village in the districts of Mallarasbtra. The particulars are presented tahsilwise under each district. The villages and towns are arranged according to their census location code numbers. The particulars In the village directory were collected through the revenue agency of the district on a prescribed form. Fo. the town direetory, six statements were cott'".piled. State­ ment I contains the 1971 census population data compiled by the census office. The non­ census data in the other statements were supplied lay the munleipal councils for their areas and by tbe revenue agency for non-municipal towns. For purposes of the census. districts are divided into urban and rural areas. The urban area ( towns) is defined in detail; those areas which do not satisfy this definition are treated as rural areas ( villages ). The following places have been treated as urban areas ( towns): (l) every place baving ~ a municipality or a cantonment board irrespective of its population; (2) every other place which had (;) a population of at least 5,000, (ii) at least three-fourths of its male working population engaged in non-agricultur.al pursuits, and (iii) a density "C population of IV 'INTRODUCTION at least 400 persons per sq. km ; (3) any other place not falling under the above two cafegories but which possesses certain distinct characteristics to qualify for its being treated as urban such as its being a project area or a developing township. A place is called a village / if it does not sati~fy any of the criteria prescribed above for its being treated as urban. A 'village' for census purposes in Maharashka has always been the "revenue viJIage' which is the ultimate unit of area in which the State is sub-divided for land revenue administra­ tion. A few past censuses concerned themselves only with revenue villages which had some population and did not take into account deserted or unihabited revenue villages. As In 1961 a village at the 1971 census is a revenue village having wen-defined boundaries. a map and ~ separate set of land records irrespective of whether that defined area bas any population or not and, if it has some population whether that population resides in one locality (gaothan) or is spread over one or more identifiabls clusters of population known as wadis. padas or mazaras (hamlets). Each revenue village has a specified area marked as its own and its boun­ daries with other adjoining villages have always enjoyed a traditional sanctity. Hamlets do not have such defined boundaries or areas distinctly marked or allotted to them ; nor do they have any locally recognised status. Revenue villages which do not have any residential population are also included in the 1971 census definition of villages. They figure in tbe census Jist but are described as unin­ habited to' distinguish them from the remaining inhabited Villages. The census definition of an uninhabited village differs slightly from the revenl1e definttion of village in that the latter defines an uninhabited viJlage as ODe having a population of less than 25. Wherever a revenue village situated op. the outskirts ofa town 1s whol1y or pardy merged in that urban area, it bas been treated a~ a separate village. The population residing in that area which is statutorily merged in the town limits has been treated as urban popUlation of that town; the residual population. if any" residing in the area outside the limits of the town is alone treated as the population of tbat village. Tbus. a few partly merged villages have returned some populations. The population for all fully merged villages has been treated a. urban population. While the 1971 census village is thus completely identified with the -revenue village. forest viUages make an exception. They are population centres situated within reserved forest areas. Their popUlation consists mainly of lorest labourers and their families. Most of them are permanent or semI-permanent localities and may have attached cullhtated areas leased out by the forest department under certaiu conditions. The land records or such villages are not maintained by the revenue department. The census list of villages also inclUdes aU inhabited forest villages. Tahsilwise alphabetical lists of al) villages and towns are printed in a separate section which preCedes part A. The district and tahsil map. show by name the district and tabsil headquarters, other towns aod bigget: villages. Smaller villages are indicated by location code numbers. An alphabetical list of villages and towas faces each map. Hilly regions and uplands are tinted. Rivers and commltnications are alao shown. Shri D. V. Rangnekar. deputy director or census operations (Hq.), laid the groundwork for the entire operation. His experience and guidance have been of great value at every stage. Shri G. A. Walawalkar and Shri M. D. Baride. deputy directors of census operations. and Smt. V. Y. Joshi and Shri D. S. Pilpile, tabulation ofDcees, were mainly responsible for the collection and processing of data for Part A. Kumari V. I.