CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 RAJASTHAN DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK NAGAUR DISTRICT C. S. GUPTA OF THE tNOlAN ADMINIS'l'RATIVE SERV~CE Superintendent of Census Operations, Rajasthan Printed by Mafatlal Z. Gandhi. a.t Nayan Printing Puss. Ahmedabad-I. CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD 111 PREFACE v SECTION I (i) INTRODUCTION (iii) SECTION II 1 PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT 3 (i) DISTRICT PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT 8 (ii) RURAL PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT 12 :Ladnu Tehsil 12 Deedwana Tehsil 14 Jaya] Tehsil 20 Nagaur Tehsil 26 Nawa Tehsil 34 Degana Tehsil 38 Parbatsar Tehsil 46 Merta Tehsil 54 (iii) URBAN PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT 62 OTHER CENSUS TABLES 67 A-SERIES-GENERAL POPULATION TABLES NOTE 69 TABLE A-I Area, Houses and Population 71 APPENDIX-I Statement showing 1951 territorial units constituting the present set-up of the district 72 ANNEXURE TO ApPENDIX-I: List of villages affacted in the transfers 73 APPENDIX-II Villages with a population of 5,000 and over and towns with a population under 5,000 76 vii APPENDIX-Ill Houseless and Institutional Population 76 TABLE A-II Variation in population during sixty years (1901-1961) 76 APPENDIX Statement showing 1951 population according to their territorial jurisdiction in 1951, changes in area and the population involved in those changes 77 TABLE A-III Vmages classified by population 78 TABLE A-IV Towns classified by population in 1961 with variation since 1901... 80 APPENDIX Towns in 1951 declassified in 1961 ... 82 B-SERIES-ECONOMIC TABLES NOTE 83 APPENDIX Standard Industrial Classification 87 TABLE B-1 Workers and non-workers classified by sex and broad age-groups 96 TABLE B-III­ PART A Industrial classification of workers and non-workers by educational levels in urban areas only 100 PART B Industrial classification of workers and non-workers by educational levels in rural areas only 102 TABLE B-IV­ PART A Industrial classification by sex and class of worker of persons at work at household industry 106 PART B Industrial classification by sex and class of worker of persons at work in non-household industry, trade, business, profession or service 108 PART C Industrial classification by sex and divisions. major groups and minor groups of persons at work other than cultivation 111 ApPENDIX TO TABLE B-IV PART C 116 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 117 TABLE B-V Occupational classification by sex of persons at work other than cultivation 119 APPENDIX 145 FLY LEAF 147 TABLE B-VI Occupational divisions of persons at work other than cultivation classified by sex, broad age~groups and educational levels in urban areas only ... 148 viii TABLE B-VIl­ PART A Persons working principally (i) As cultiva tors (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 152 PART B Industrial classification - by sex of persons working in non­ household industry, trade, business, profession or service who are also engaged in household industry 155 TABLE B-VIII­ PART A Persons unemployed aged 15 and above by sex, broad age­ groups and educational levels in urban areas only 156 PART B Persons unemployed aged 15 and above by sex, and educational levels in rural areas only 157 TABLE B-IX Persons not at work classified by sex, broad age-groups and type of activity 158 TABLE 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 162 TABLE B-XI Sample households engaged in cultivation classified by interest in land and size of land cultivated in rural and urban areas separately 163 TABLE 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 164 TABLE 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 172 TABLE B-XIV- Sample households engaged only in household industry classified by principal household industry in all areas 173 PART A Households classified by major groups of principal household indmtry and number of persons engaged 173 PART B Households classified by minor groups of principal household industry 174 TABLE B-XV Sample households engaged both In cultivation and household industry classified by size of land in rural and urban areas sepa­ rately 176 TABLE B-XVI Sample principal household industry classified by period of working and total number of workers engaged in household industry in aU areas 178 APPENDIX 183 TABLE B-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 184 ix C-SERIES-SOCIAL AND CULTUItAL TABLES NOTE '186 TABLE C-I Ci':oGpaaition of !UJ8mpJe .households ,bY' relationship. to bead of family..classified .by size of land. eultivaed 188 TABLE C-II Age aud Marital-·Status 189 .TABLE C-III­ PART A . Age, Sex and Education in all areas 193 PART B Age~ ,Sex"and j Education in urban areas ooly ,194 PART C Age, Sex and Education in rural areas only 195 -TABLE elV Single year Age returns 198 TABLE c-v Mother l'oague 199 TABLE C-VII Religion 201 SUPPLEMENT 202 TABLE C-VIll Classification by literacy and industrial category of workers and non-workers PART A (Among Scheduled Castes) ...::-. 203 PART.B (Among Scheduled Tribes) 204 t!-SERIES-HOUSING TABLES NOTE 20S TABLE E-I Census houses and the uses to which they are put 207 TABLE E-I1 Tenure .status of sample censlls households living in census houses used as dwellings 208 TABLE E-IV D.isu:iblUioo"of sample .households Jiving in census bouses used wholly or partly as dwellings .by predominant material of wall and .predominant material of roof 210 TABLE E-V Sample househokis classified by number of members .and by number ..of rooms .occupied 212 LIST OF INDUSl'RIAL 'EST A'BLt'SHMENTS 214 SCT, SC & ST SERIES- SPECIAL TABLES FOR SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES NOTE 218 TABLE SCT-I Industrial classification of persons at work and non-workeri by sex PART A (For Scheduled Castes) 220 PART B (For Scbeduled Tri·bes) 224 FLY LEAF 225 x TABLE SCT-II Age and Marital Status PART A (For Scheduled Castes) 226 PART B (For Scheduled Tribes) 230 TABLE SCT-ITI Education PART A (i) (For Scheduled Castes in -urban areas only) 232 PART A (ii) (Fo~ Scheduled Tribes in utban areas only) 232 PART B (i) (For Scheduled Castes in rural areas only) 233 PART B (ii) (For Scheduled Tribes in rural areas only) 233 TABLE SCT-IV Religion PART A (For Scheduled Castes) 234 PART B (For Scheduled Tribes) 235 TABLE SCT-V Sample households engaged in cultivation classified by interest in land and size of land cultivated in rural areas only PART A (For Scheduled Castes) 236 PART B (For Scheduled Tribes) 236 TABLE SC-l Persons not at work classified by sex, type of activity and educational levels for Scheduled Castes 237 TABLE ST-I Mother Tongue and Bi-lingualism for Scheduled Tribes 240 TABLE ST-II Persons not at work classified by sex and type of activity for Scheduled Tribes 241 SECTION III 242(a) VILLAGE DIRECTORY 243 SOME OFFICIAL STATISTICS 273 SECTION IV 287 DISTRICT" TEHSIL MAPS 289 xi 1961 CENSUS PUBLICATIONS for Rajasthan State The Rajasthan 1961 Census Publications, which will have Volume No. XIV in All India Census Series, will be published in the following parts .- PART I-A General Report PART I-B Subsidiary Tables PART II-A General Population Tables (A-Series) and Primary Census Abstract PART II-B(i) Economic Tables (B-Series, Tables I-IV) PART II-B(iO Economic Tables (B-Series. Tables V-IX) PART II-C(i) Social and Cultural Tables (C-Series) PART II-C(ii) Migration Tables (D-Series) PART III Household Economic Tables (B-Series, Tables X-XVII) PART IV-A Report on Housing and Establishments PART IV-B Housing and Establishment Tables (E-Series) PART V-A Tables on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Trjbes PART V-B Ethnographic notes on Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes PART VI-A to F Survey of Selected Villages PART VII-A Survey of Selected Crafts PART VU-B Notes on Selected Fairs and Festivals PART VIII-A *Census Administration Report (Enumeration) PART VIII-B ·Census Administration Report (Tabulation> PART IX-A & B Census Atlas A separate District Census Handbook prepared by this office is being issued by the Government of Rajasthan for each of the 26 districts. • Not for sale xii SECTION I INTRODUCfION INTRODUCTION The territory, now known as district Nagaur, used and passes through Merta 1ehsil. There are a few streams to be a part of the former Jodhpur State. On the merger in tehsil Parbatsar which flow in rainy season. There ::>f the Jodhpur State into the United States of Greater are salt lakes at Didwana and at Nawa. Rajasthan in the year 1949, a separate diitrict of Nagaur was formed which continues to date. ,. The northern part of the district compnsmg Ladnu, Didwana, Nagaur and Jayal tehsils is sterile .. ocation and Formation and sandy while the remaining portion of the district comprising Parbatsar, Nawa, Degana and Merta tehsils in 2.