District Census Handbook, 21-Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh
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~. .----..... ~ r Census of India, 1951 i DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK UTTAR PRADESH 21-FATEHPUR DISTRICT f I 1 ALLAHABAD: SUPEn~TENDENT, PRINTING AND STATIONERY, UTfAR PR.ADES-~I, lNDlA 1955 DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK 1951 FATEHPUR DISTRICT FOREWORD Several States, including Uttar Pradesh, have been publishing village statistics by districts at each cellSUS. In 1941 they were published in U. P. under the title "District Census Statistics" with a separate volume for each district.' In the 1951 census, when the tabulation has been more elabor~te 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 Non... agricultural Occupations, agricultural statistics from 190V02 to 19$°""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 Statistics" 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 twenty .... five. Special arrangements for speeding up the printing hav~.now been made and it is hoped that the remaining Handbooks will be printed before the end of 1955. RAJESHW ARI PRASAD, LA.S., RAMPUR: Superintendent, Census Operations. April 30, 1955. U itar Pradesh. CONTENTS Pages INTBODUOTION A-The District i-iii B-Analysis of the Statistics iii-x O-Explanatory Nobe on the Statistics x-xii PART I-DISTRICT CENSUS TABLES A-GJIINERAL POPULATION TABLES- A-I Area, Houses and Population 3 A·II Variation in Popq.lation during Fifty Years 3 A-III Towns and Villages Classified by Population 4-5 A-IV Towns Olassified by Populabion with Variations since 1901 6 A-V Towns arranged TerritoriallY with Population by Livelihood Cl"sses 7 E Area and PopUlation of District and Tehsils by Livelihood Classes 8-9 B-EoONOMIO TABLES- B-1 Livelihood Classes and Sub-classes 10_13 B-Il Secondary Means of Livelihood 14-21 Il-III Employers, Employees and Independent Workers in Industries and Services by Divisions and Sub-divisions 22-47 Il-IV Unemployment by Livelihood Classes 48-49 Index of Non.agrioultural Ocoupations 50-53 C-HOUSEHOLD AND AGE (SAMPLE) TABLES- C-I Household (size and composition) 54-55 C-II Livelihood Classes by Age Groups 56-61 C-III Age and Civil Oondition 62-65 O-IV Age and Literaoy _._ 66-69 C-V Single Year Age Returns 70-71 D-SOOLAL AND CULTURAL TABLES- D·I Languages (i) Mother TOl!gue 78 (ii) Ililingualism 79 D-II Religion 80-81 D-lII Scheduled Castes .•. 80-81 D-rV Migrants 82-85 D-V (i) Displaoed person~ by year of arrival in India •• 86-81 (ii) Displaoed persons by Livelihood Classes 86-87 D-VI Non-Indian Nationals 86-81 D-VII Livelihood C-lasses by Educational Standards 88-92 PART II-VILLAGE, TOWN, PARGANA AND THANA STATISTICS Primary Census Abstract 94-137 2 Pargana and Thana-wise PopUlation 138 PART III-MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS 1 Vital'Statistics 14D-143 2 Agricultural Statistios-(i) Rainfall 144-145 (ii, Area as classified with details of area under cultivation 146-149 (iii) Cropped Area 150-165 (iv) Irrigated Area 166-169 .3 Live-Stook and Agrioultural Maohinery and Implements, 1920-51 110-173 4 List of Primary Sohools 174-176 INTRODUCTION A-THlC DISTRIOT 1. The district of Fatehpur lies in the eastern or lower portion of the Doab between the G9,nga and the Yamuna and is bounded on the north-west by Kanpur and on the south ea.st by Allahabad. To the north. beyond the Ganga lie the districts of Unnao, Rae BareH and Pratapgarh, while on the south Yamuna separates Fatehpur from Hamirpur and Banda districts. It has a total area of 1,621 square miles and its population in 1951 was 9'09 1a.khs. It has 3 tehsils, 13 parganas and 13 thanas. 2. The physical characteristics of the district are mainly determined by the two Topograpby great rivers on the nortb and south. As in other parts of Doab, the land in the neighbour hood of the rivers stands high, and thence falls slightly towards the centre. Below the high bank of the Ganga, in the river bed, there are considerable stretches of new alluvium in which large areas of good crops can be raised but these are liable to constant change owing to the action of the river. On the other side, the land in the bed of the Yamuna is less frequently culturable, save for a strip of varying width directly under the cliff and in isolated patches elsewhere. Above and behind the high bank which borders the bed of the Ganga there is a narrow strip of lightish soil. Much of this is good firm soil. Where, however, the bank is lower it tends to be broken by undulations and ravines. On the Yamuna side the ravines are more formidable and extend in places 3 miles or more into the country above while the spaces between them are often barren. Where the soil is level it is not infertile but cultivation is precarious owing to the great depth of water and the consequent absence of irrigation. Between these fringes along the great rivers, the large central tract is of a type common in the doab. It is a level plain, though in some cases ravines occur. The prevailing soil is a good'sound loam, interspersed with usar in large or small patches, but varied in tracts ofinterrupted drainage by stiff clay in the numerous depressions. These are found mostly in the central tehsil Fatehpur and in the adjoihing portions of Khajuha and Khaga tehsils to the west and east resp6ctively. , "-_- Fatehpur tehsil is made up of three sharply divided to·pographical divisions. The Ganga tract in the north lies between the river and the watershed. It has a light and sandy soil on the high plateau which lies 50 feet above the riv,~r and below this is a narrow strip of khaJiT separated from the former-by shallow ravines. The tract south of it and lying in the valley of the Bari Nadi forms pa.rt of the central plateau and comprises a stretch of country in which well wooded strips of loam land alternate with clay depressions suitable for rice cultivation and liable to saturation in the rains. Below it is the Yamuna tract which comprises the aUuvialland along the river, the high bank cut up by numerous and extensive ravines, and the upland plateau in which the water level is extremely deep and the soils are all of B light and inferior description resembling those found in Bundelkhand to the south of the river. This tract is weU-drain~d and possesses no jhils of any size. Khag.':~'ill the eastern sub·division of the district and comprises a compact stretch of country extending frQm the Yamuna on the south, to the Ganga on the north between the AU ..habad district on the east and Fatehpur on the west. In the north, beyond the Ganga watershed, is a high lying tract with a light but fertile soil, well wooded and studded with numerous small villages, this being one of the most prosperous part of the district. To the south of this lies the central plain which contains the valleys of the Sasur Khaderi in the North, the Chhoti Nadi in the centre and the Bari Nadi in the ,South. The two first in their upper reaches are mere series of swamps, but they ultimately a~sume well defined beds and waterlogging disappears. The Bari Nadi in this tehsil has a deep channel, and th~ country along its course is broken by ravines. Between the Bari Nadi and the Yamuna is a nirrow plateau indented by extensive ravines which have cut their way through the high- bank and carry down the drainage to the Yamuna which flows at a level of lOJ feet below the uplands. Between the Fatehpur branch canal and the Sasur Khaderi is a level stretch. of country containing the valuable rice tract known as the Haveli. Khajuha tehsil is the western sub, division of the district extending from Fatehpur on the ost to the Kanpur border on the west and north-west. The tract is divided into two ailtinct portions by the Rind which flows from north-west to the south-east and unites wi\~'lbe Yamuna. The part south of Rind constitutes about one-third of the Whole and froixl~this a small area is cut off by the Nun river in the south-west corner. These streams run 'In deep channels an,d in consequence these banks are fissured with numerous small wa.~courses and steep ravines while above the Yamuna the soils flequently resemble those ofJUndhelkhand to the south. Near the Ganga and Pandu Nadi the soil is light anGtontains a large proportion of sand but to the south of the watershed loam predomi. nates in the Rind valley, while to the east is the tract which forms part of central depression. , The drainage of the district is from the north· west to the south-east.