CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 MADHYA PRADESH DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK VIDISHA DISTRICT 0. JAGATHPATHI OF THE INDIAN AOMINtSTRATIV£ SERVICE S'JPERINTENDENT OF CENSUS OPERATIONS, MADHYA PRADESH PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT .OF MADHYA PRADESH 1964 196r: CENSUS PUBLICATIONS. ~HYA PRADESH (All the Cen8U8 Publications of thiB State- will bear Volume No. VIII) PART 1 General Report including Subsidiary Tables. (in SulJ..Parts) PART II-A General P'opulation Tables PART Il-B Economic Tables {in SulJ..parts) PART II-C Cultural and Migration Tables {in Sub-Parts) PART III Household Economic Tables PART IV Housing and Establishment Tables (in­ {in Sub-parts) cluding Subsidiary Tables). and Report PARTV Special Tables for Scheduled Castes and (in SUlJ..parts) Scheduled Tribes PART VI Village Survey Monographs (A Separate Sub­ part for each Village Surveyed) PART VII Survey of Handicrafts of the State (A Separate Sub-part for each Handicraft Surveyed) PART VIII-A Administration Report - Enumeration PART VIII.B Administration Report-Tabulation I· PART IX Maps STATE PUBLICATIONS DISTRICT CENSUS HAND BOOKS District Census Hand-books for each of the 43 Districts in Madhya Pradesh PREFA,CE Th~, publication of District Census Hand-books, which was begun in the 1951 Census, represents a significant step in the pro::ess of making census statistics available for the smaUer territorial units basic to executive and developmental administrati~n. Apart from the fact that the proper implementation of policy depends on the ability of the administrative authorities concerned to quantify accurately the variables involved, it is at these levels that policies get really thoroughly tested; also, policies can fail-and probably have failed-because their statistical basis was weak. It is undoubtedly necessary that gaps in statistics at lower levels be fined as rapid'y as possible. It was not possible at this Census to base all census statistics on the development block as the unit mainly because in 1961 there were many areas not till then covered by blocks. The coverage had become complete by about the middle of 1963 and it is not unlikely that the 1971 Census will recognise the b!ock as the basic field unit as much for purposes of presentation as for operational purposes. 2. What we have tried to do in the 1961 Census Hand-books is to make them more informative by the inc1usion of a!l many categories of non-census statistics as possible; some of these are climate, agriculture, co-operation, industry, bank­ jng, education, health etc. There is also an introductory note to each Hand­ book high-lighting the more striking fea~ures. It has not been possible for the Census Organisation· to check the accuracy of the figures supplied by various authorities; it is to be hoped that some other organi;ation, better equipped for the purpose, will take up this task. 3. For the seventeen districts of Mahakoshal (Part of erstwhile Madhya Pradesh) and for Panna and Tikamgarh districts of erstwhile Vindhya Pradesh, which are part of the present State of Madhya Pradesh, the area figures for districts and tahsils furnished by the Director of Land Records and presented in Table A-I are internally inconsistent in the sense that the tahsil areas do not add up to the district area. This inconsistency arose from the fact that, in the case of these districts, the district area includes, but the tahsil areas exclude, 'forest' area for which the tahsilwise breakup was not then available. Later on, while this Hand-book was in the press, the Director of Land Records brought out revised area figures for the year 1952-63 for tahsils and districts,. which among other improvements, do not suffer from the defect of internal 2 inconsistency even .1n case of these nineteen districts. Revision of Table A-I on the basis of these area figures was not feasible -at this late stage; the only alternative was to print these revised area figures also in this Hand-book. 4. One unfortunate fact about these Hand-books is that they became avail­ able to- the users rather late in the decade. This is partly due to the considerable time required for the collection of information from various authorities and partly to difficulties in printing. Owing to the fact that State presses, with a heavy back­ log of printing weighing down on them, would find it impossible to print all the District Census Hand-books themselves, arrangements have been made for printing them in private presses. If these- Hand-books are to have a useful life ·of more than four or five years of inter-ceno:;al decennium, more expeditious methods for the collection of non-census statistics, for the preparation and checking of the manuscripts and for printing will have to be devised. 5. The Census Organisation is grateful to the Government of Madhya Pradesh for having been so kind as to undertake the publication of these Hand­ books and to the Superintendent, Government Printing and his organisation. particularly the Assistant Superintendent, Printing, Government Regional Press, Indore apd his staff--for the printing arrangements made. The inspiration behind this ambitious venture is that of our indefatigable Registrar General, Shri Asok Mitra, to whom we are all deeply grateful. Our thanks are also due to the various 'authorities who supplied us with all the necessary ·statistics. G. JAGATHPATHI CONTENTS Pages Notes and Explanations i-vii Appendix I Standard Industrial Classification viii-xvi Appendix II National Classification of Occupations xvii-xxiii Selected Statistics Selected Statistics of India, Madhya Pradesh,Divisions, Districts and Important Towns of Madhya Pradesh xxiv-xxxiii Revised Area and Density Figures .. xxxiv-xxxvi Introducing the District .. xxxvii-Ixxi PART I A-GENERAL POPULATION TABLES 3-7 Table A-I Area, Houses and population 3 Appendix I Statement showing 1951 territorial units constituting the present set up 4 Annexure Annexure to Appendix-l 4 Appendix II Number of villages with a population of 5,000 and over and towns with a population under 5,000 5 Appendix III Houseless and Institutional population 5 Table A-II Variation in population during sixty years 5 Appendix District and Tahsils showing 1951 population according to their territorial jurisdiction in 1951,changes in area and population involved in those changes 6 Table A-III Villages classified by population 6 Table A-IV Towns (and Town-Groups) classified by popUlation in 1961 with variation since 1901 7 B-ECONOMIC TABLES 8-89 (i) General Economic Tables 8-63 Primary Census Abstract 8-9 Table B-J Workers and non-workers classified by sex and broad age-groups 10-11 Table B-III Part A Industrial classification of workers and non-workers by educational levels ill urban areas only 12-13 Part B Industrial classification of workers and non-workers by educational leVels in rural areas only .. 14-15 Table B-IV Part A Industrial classification bv sex and class of worker of persons at work at Household industry 16-18 Part B Industrial classification by sex and class of worker of persons at work in Non-Household Industry, Trade, Business. Profession or Service 19-23 ii Table B-IV Pages Part C Industrial classification by sex and Divisions, Major groups and Minor groups of persons at work other than cultivation 24-32 Table B-V Occupational classification by sex of persons at work other than cultivation 33-45 Table B-Vl Occupational Divisions of persons at work other than cultivation classified by Sex, Broad Age-groups and Educational levels in urban areas only 46-49 Table B-VD Part A Persons working principally (i) As Cultivators, (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 Labourers 50-51 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 52-57 Table B-VIll Part A Persons unemployed aged 15 and above by Sex, Broad Age­ groups and Educational levels in urban areas only 58-59 Part B Persons unemployed aged 15 and above by Sex and Educational Levels in rural areas only 58-59 Table B-IX Persons not at work classified by Sex, Broad Age-groups and type of activity 60-63 (iO Household Etonomic Tables 64-89 Table B-X Sample Households (i) engaged neither in Cultivation nor in Household Industry, (ii) engaged either in Cultivation or Household Industry but not in both and (iii) engaged both in Cultivation and Household Industry for all areas 64 Table B-XI Sample Households engaged in cultivation classified by interest in land and size of land cultivated in rural and urban areas separately 65 Table B-XII Sample Households engaged in cultivation only cla<;sified by size of land cultivated and number of family workers and hired workers in rural and urban areas separately 66-69 Table B-Xnl Sample Households engaged both in cultivation and house­ hold industry showing size of land cultivated classified by principal household industry in rural and urban areas separately 70 Table B-XIV Sample Households engaged only in household industry classified by principal household industry in all areas 71-74 Part A Households classified by Major groups of principal house­ hold industry and number of persons engaged 71-72 Part B Households classified by Minor groups of principal house­ hold industry 73-74 III Pages Table B-XV Sample Households engaged both in cultivation and house­ hold industry classified by size of land in rural and urban areas separately 76-79