DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK 1951 PRATAPGARH DISTRICT FOREWORD- , Several States, in eluding Uttar Pradesh, have been publishing village statistics by districts at each census. In I94I they were published in U. P. under the title "District Census Statistics" with a separate volume for each district. In the 19S1 census, when the tabulation has been more elaborate than ever in view of the require ... ments of the country, the district .. wise volume has been expanded into a "District Census Handbook", which now contains the District Census Tables {furnishing data with break .. up for census tracts within the district}, the District Index of N~m' agricultural Oc'cupations, agricultural statistics from 1901.;02 to 19S0"51 and other miscellaneous statistics in addition to the usual village population statistics. The village population statistics also are given in an elaborate form giving the division of the population among eight livelihood classes and other details. 2.. It may be added here that a separate set of district ...wise volumes giving only population figures of rural areas by villages and of urban areas by wards and mohallas and entitled _~'District Population Statisticsu has already been published. This separate series was necessitated by the urgent requirements of the U. P. Government for elections to local bodies. 3· The number of District Census Handbooks printed so far is forty;two Special arrangements for speeding up the printing have now been made and it is . hoped that the remaining Handbooks will be printed before the end of 19S5. RAJESHWARI PRASAD, I.A.S., R.AMPUR: Superintendent. Census Operationsl Octohtr 311 1955. Uttar Praderb CONTENTS Pages INTRODt1CTION- A-The District i-ii B-Analysis of the Statistics ii-a: C~Explanatory Note on the Statistics x-xU PART I-DISTRICT CENSUS TABLES A-G~ERAL POPULATION TABLES- A-I Area, Houses and Population ~ A-II Variation in Population during Fifty Years 3 A-III Towns and Villages Classified by Population 4-5 A~IV Towns Classified by Population with Variations since 1901 (i. A-V Towns arranged Territorially with Population by Livelihood Classes 7 E Area and Population of District and Tehsils by Livelihood Classes 8-9 B--ECONOMIC TABLES- lJ-I Livelihood Classes and Sub-classes 10-13 B-II Secondary Means of Livelihood 14-21 B-I1I Employers, Employees and Independent Workers in Industries and Services by Divisions and Sub~divisons 22-51 B-IV ,Unemployment by Livelihood Classes 52-53 Index of Non-agricultural Occupations .• 54-57 C-HOUSEHOI.D AND AGE (SAMPU:) TABLF.9- C-I Household (size and composition) ." 58-59 C-II Livelihood Classes by Age-groups 60-63 C-UI Age and Civil Condition 64-67 C-IV Age and Literacy 68-71 C-V Single year Age Returns 72-79 D--SO€IAL AND CULTURAL T ABLJI5- D-I Languages (i) Mother Tongue 80-81 (ii) Bilingualism 82-83 D-II Religion ." 84-85 D-III Scheduled Castes 84-8_? D-IV Migrants 86-89 D-V (i) Displaced persons by year of arrival in India 90-91 (ii) Displaced persons by Livelihood Classes 90-91 D-V! Non-Indian Nationals 90-91 D-VII Livelihood Classes by Educational Standards 92-96 PART II-VILLAGE, TOWN, PARGANA AND THANA STATISTICS 1 Primary Census Abstract •• 98-15~ 16() 2 Pargana and Thana-wise Population '." PART III-MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS 1 Vital Stltistics 162-165- 2 Agricultural Statistics-(i) Rainfall 166-167 (ii) Area as classified with details of area under cultivation 168-171 (iii) Cropped Area 172-187 (iv) Irrigated Area 18.8-191 3 Live-Stock, Agricultural MaChinery snd Implements 192-195 4- List of Primary SChools .. 196-198 INTRODUCTION A-THE DISTRICT 1. The district of Pratapgarh consists of a long strip of country of varying breadth, extend­ 'ing for some '68 miles from the Ganga in the south-west to the Gomti in the north-east. To the ~orth lies Sultanpur, to the north-west Rae Bareli, to the south Allahabad and to the east Jaunpur. It'is a comparatively small district of 1,457 square miles. Its population in 1951 was l1·l1lakhs. 'The district is divided into 3 tehsils-Kunda in the west, Pratapgarh in the centre and Patti in the ,east. There are 7 parganas and 11 thanas in the district. 2. The district taken as a whole is fairly level and fertile, except along the banks of the Ganga Topoeraph, ,and its tributary the Daur in the south-west, the Sai and its feeder streams the Chamroura, the Parya and the;: Bakulahi in the centre and the Gomti in the east. The Sai has followed a too tortu- .()us course and its neighbourhood on either side is broken, ravine-scoured, and undulating. The course of the Gomti is equally disturbed but affects only a small area on the north-eastern border. 'The Ganga is less aggressive and its banks are less pierced by channels and ravines. The khadar land or the tract under the influence of the rivers and streams is marked by light or sandy soil with .haj,a and barley as predominant crops. The rest of the district is fairly homogenous and consists .of level dumat soil which alternates with slightly stiffer matia, in the depressed tracts. In the latter may be seen stretches of uncultur~ble usa" but these do not extend over any considerable ..area. The ravine and dumat tracts which comprise the bulk of the district are well drained, but the depresse(l tract contains in places numerous large and deep jhils. The drainage is very defec· -tive in the western half of the district. In Kunda tehsil there is an old bed of the Ganga, called :the Benti lake. In south of tehsil Patti jhils are again very conspicuous. 3. The natural soils of the district are duma!, matiar and bhur. The first contains a fair Soils mixture of clay and sand and is easily workable. Its chief crops are wheat and barley. The second .consists of stiffer soil, containing a large proportion of clay. Rice is the main crop of this soil and ~arly rice is usually followed by gram. The third consists of light sandy land in the villages along the rivers and th~ir· tributaries. Bajra and barley are the chief crops. It is largely dry. 4. The figures of classification of area during the last fifty years are given in Table 2 of Part Classificati'OD III of this· volume. The proportion of area under various categories works out as follows of area for 1950-51 : Actual figures Particulars (in acres) Percentage Culti'vated area 573,896 ~'2 ,Culturable waste (excluding current fallow) 138,142 15'0 Current fallolW 26,576 2" 9 ~oregt 393 Area not available for cultivation of which: 183,577 19'9 (a) Covered with whte'" 52,979 5'7- ([7) Under sites, roads and buildint{s 40,260 4'4 (c) Barren 90576 9·S The figure in the above table regarding culturable waste taken from the Season and Crop Report is, however, misle~ding. The State Agriculture Department condu~d In 1949-50' a· 11 detailed en9uiry thr01!gh the District Officers regarding the nature of this area in each district. The followmg analYSIS of the area resulted from this enquiry : Area Particulars (in acres) Percentage Total Culturable waste (A+B+C) 138,903 100 A-Area under culturable waste land not available for immediate cultivation 78,936 56'83 (i) Forest under any legal enactment 61 0'04- (ii) Groves 69,113 49' 76- (iii) Forests of timber trees ' .. 1,013 0'73' (iv) Thatching grasses, shrubs and bushes 6.288 4'53: (v) Land kept for grazing' ,. 2,461 1'<77 B-Area under culturable waste land available for irr.mediate (ultivaticn but which COuld not be cultivated 29,007 20'8& 0fwhich due to- (i) Kans growth 24- 0'02 (ii) Threshing floors 4,033 2 '9() (iii) Malaria (iv) Floods 468 0'34- (v) Lack of drains 1,418 1'02 (vi) Lack of water 14,958 10'77 (vii) Distance from auad; S02 0'%. (viii) Damage from wild animals 71 0'05 (ix) Other Causes 7,533 5 '42' C-Area under culturable waste land that can be brought under immediate cul­ tivation after SOme improvements besides the area given against "B" 30,960 22'29 From the above it will appear that of the total area recorded as culturable waste only about 22'3 per cent. was really capable of being brought under immediate cultivation after some improve­ ments. Thus the land area cultivated and culturable including current fallow per capita works OUb to 66'5 cents of which 54'1:iF cents have already been brought under cultivation ana only about 2:8 cents can be further brought under the plough after some improvements. ' Climate and 5. On the whole the climate of Pratapgarh is good and fairly healthy, The cold weather raioraU is dry and bracing, although in some seasons east winds and cloudy weather are prevalent, In the hot weather westerly winds prevail and often blow with considerable strength for days at a time. In the cold weather frosts are not unknown and generally cause damage. The average recorded rainfall for the whole district during the last quinquennium was 42'4<) inches. During the last 45 years the rainfall has been less than 25 inches in only three years and' has us~ally been over 32 inches. IrrigatioD 6. Wells along with tanks, jhils and canals supply the irrigation in the district. Of the total irrigated area in 1950-51 the wells covered 73'+ per cent., canals 11'9 per cent.