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If I : . ·:RO,ULATION CE.NSUS OF 1961

-:VILLAGE STATISTICS ··:oHITR I ..... STATE . ' ·'· 1 ' ' r • ' . ') 1 .

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OFFICE OF THE CENSUS COMMISSIONER ·MINISTRY OF HOME AND KASHMIR AFFAIRS HOM~ AFFAIRS DIVISION

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...z.: .. - ·- - ·-- ...... - •• ' INTRODUCTION The village is th e basic unit of revenue the ent ire tribes, so that the danger administration and the need for basic statistics or inflation of the strength of a for village is quite obvious as all planning particular tribe was eliminated. depends on such statistics. They are a lso Si nce estima ted population was coll ected indispensable for carrying out sample surveys tribe-wise a nd not vi llage-wise it has been over limited areas and form the basis of con­ shown in the main summary table only. tinuous collection of statistics on different aspects of rural fife and economy. Th-:: The plan of presenta tion for each village was taken as the basic unit of enumera­ vi llage is the serial number, its name in tion if its population was 600 ·or it was a English and Urd u, total population by males continuous coll ection of about 150 houses on and females and its tribe-wise population. an average. Where the village approximatd Local details regarding Colleges, Schools, to this size, it ·was constituted into a Block. Post Offices, Telegraph Offices, Railway- Sta­ A la rge number of villages had to be split up cions, Police Stations, Rest Houses, Union into a number of Blocks, but the boundaries Counci l Offices, H ospitals, Dispensaries, Elec­ of Census Block did not go beyond the limits tricity. Tube-wells, Historical Monuments of a revenue estate. and L::vy Posts, etc. have been indicated by The Village Statistics for Agencies/St:t!es appropriat:: .>ymbols against c3ch village. give a statistical analysis of the tribes and this A list of these symbols is appended. will be for the population enumerated on the These details have been obtained from the Tribal Individual Schedule only as the popu­ Political Agent concerned. The data 'has lation enumerated on Standard and Family been presented by tehsils within each Agency/ Schedule will not give the tribes. The Vill age State. statistics contained in this Parr have been The tribal village statistics were compiled compiled from block-wise figures conrnined in' th ~ H and Sorting Centre, Peshawar under in the summaries prepared by the Census the supervision of Mr. A. U. Saleem, Assis­ Supervisors and Charge Superintendents. tant Director of Census, lnchargc Hand In so me parts of the Triba l Areas census Sorting Centre, Peshawar. After compila­ schedule could not be used a nd the popula­ tion the li st w.ts sent to the Provi ncial Direc­ tion of the various tribes residing there was torate of Cens us as the Hand Sorting Centre estimated by the respecti ve Political Agents. was wound up. The list was then sent to the The following points were kept in view while Political Agent concerned for verification and a rriving at these estimates:- completi on of local details. After the veri­ (a) The estimated population of each fication th~s :: statistics were further checked, major tribe was divided into main adjusted and co nsolidated, before thei r pub­ section and sub-section with sex­ lication, in my office. wise break up. A summary giving the tehsil-wise total (/>) The estimates of population were population and distribution of tribes of each checked in a Jirga of the Elders of Agency/State has been given in th:: begi nning.

MUHAMMAD SHARfF SHEIKH. T.K .. P.C.S. (Reid. ), Deputy Director of Census, Wesr Pakistan, Lahore. JJI- 1 EXPLANATORY NOTE

The symbols to denote local details are:-

(1) College or University J--;y.:3 J ~ ld c::l 5" (2) Prim ary School J_,S::.. -_ns ( 5) Post Office (6) Telegraph Office fi( }!' (7) Dispensary .1 ) .lT ?~ J~ ' ( 14) Tube Well ....,....,,: d ./ ( IS) Electricity J~! L. P. ( 16) Levy Post ..!.. -y!,