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CENSUS OF INDIA 1981_ SERIES 29 GOA, DAMAN & DIU Paper 1 of 1'987 HOUSEHOLDS AND HOUSEHOLD POPULATION BY lANGUAGE MAINLY SPOKEN IN THE HOUSEHOLD S. K. GANDHE of the Indian Economic Sen-ice Director of Census Operations, Goa, Daman & Diu and Dadra and Nagar HaveH CONTENTS Pages FOREWORD (v) PREFACE (vii) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (viii) NOTE ON THE LANGUAGE DATA 1-2 FLY-LEAF 3-4 Table HH-16 Households and Household pcpulatjon by language mainly 6-11 Part A (i) spoken in the Housel:<)ld (inclusive of variants grouped under each) specified in Schedule VIII to the Constitution of India by Union Territory/District. Table HH-16 Households and Household populaticn by language mainl) 12-4') Part A (ii) spoken in the Household (inclusive of variants grouped under each) specified in Schedule VlJI to the Constitution of India by Unicll Territc.ryjDistrict/Taluka/ TO'i\n Table HH-16 Households and Household population by language mainly 52-57 Part B (i) spoken in the Household (inclusive of variants where grouped) other than those specified in Schedule YIn to the Constitution of India by Union Territory/District. Table HH-16 Household, and Household population by language mainly 58-77 Palt B (ii) spoken in the HcusehoJd (inclusive of variants where grouped) other than those specified in Schedule VIII to the COlistitution' of Tr.dia by Union Territory/District! Taluka/Town (ii i) FOREWORD THIS VOLUME contains the data on language collected through the Hou,ehold S;hedule canva<)sed in the 1981 Census. The information pertains to language mlialy spoken in the household. The presentation is based on the Slme principles as were adopted in the 1971 Census presentation of languagel mother tongue data. The table presented which c,)mes in the series or household tables of 1981 Census Tabulation Plan. bears the number HH 16 (Parts A & B) Table HH 16 Part A relates to languages specified in the Schedule VUf to the Con<;titution of Indi.!. T.lb!e HH-16 P.!rt B rdates to languages other than those specified in the Schedule vIn to th.! Cnstitution of India. Table HH-16 Part A is further sub-dividej into two sury·divisiolS i.c. Part A (i) 3ad Part A (ii) ; Part A (i) relating to State and District level data and Part A (ii) relating to Taluka/rown level data. Similarly, Part B has also got two sub-divisions; Part B (i} and P.Ht B (ii) , r~l,ltin:; to State and District~, alld Taluka/ Town levels respectively. The note and fly-leaf preceding the tables give the background and explain the features or the tables. The concepts and definitions are also discussed in the fly-leaf which the reader will find useful. The 1981 Census of India was very ably organised and conducted by my predecessor Shri P. Padmanabha, I.A.S. The data presented in this volume were initially processed in the Census Directorates in the States/Union Territories. The tables were then scrutinised in the Language and Census Divisions of the Registrar General's Office. I am grateful to my colleagues in the Directorates and in the Registrar General's Olficc who took part in the huge task of 1981 censu~ enumeration and processing of data. Dr. B. P . .\f.ihap. .ltra, Deputy Registrar General (Language) took immense pains in scrutinising the Llnguage ddL!. The nam!s of his colleagues who assisted him in this task are given s:p.lf.ltely. Shri N. Rima Rao, Assistant Registrar General (C&T) has given the guidance and co-ordinated the work relating to tabulation of these data. He was assisted by SIld R.P. Tonnf, D.!puty Director of Census Op.!rations. Shri M.ihal Singh. Investigator and his colleagues in the Census Division, whose names are given separately, ably co-ordinated the in-flow and out-flow of language data among the Census Directorates, Language Division at Calcutta and the Registrar General's Office in Delhi. In the Census Directorate, Shri S. Rajendran, Deputy Director and his colleagues have also scrutinised the tables in detail. Shri B. P. Jain, Assistant Director (Printing) ensured printing of this volume quickly. J thank all these officers. NEW DELHI V. S. VERMA July 2f, 1987 Registrar General. India (v) PREFACE THIS PAPER contains data on language mainly spoken in the household collected during the 1981 Census through Part~I of the Household S;hedule. The language data, thus co!lected are presented upto taluka and town level of State in thi,) volum~. The table which f..>rms put of the household series tables of the 198 I Census is entitled Table HH- I 6 Households and household population by language mainly spoken in the household (inclusive of variants grouped under each). The table is divided into two parts viz. Part A and Part B. Part A relates to languages sp~cified in Schedule VIII to the Constitution of India and Part B relates to languages other th111 those sp~cified in Schejule VIII to the Constitution of India. Part A is again sub~diviJed into two plrts-Part A (i) relating to Union Territory and District level and Part A (ii) rellting to Taluka/Town level of the Uaion Territory. Similarly, Part B (i) relates to Union Territory and District level and Part B (ii) relates to Taluka/Town level of the Union Territory. The tabulation of these data was done manually under the guidance of the office of the Registrar General, India. As mentioned in the note on the language data contained in this volume, this table includes houseJess households but excludes institutional households. The Dir¢~tor of CeIlsu~ Ot>!r:ltio,lS Dr. S.K. GJ1d'l~ ullj~r whOie glliJ.t[}c~, tile 19& I Census was carried out deserv\!5 all credit for the success of th~ census op~ration5 but he had to le.lve the organiSltioll for taking IIp other imp)ftlU'lt a"'ligrlmmts b~fore the plper in question cl)ulJ be made ready for the press. We must record our deepest sense of gratitude to Shri P. Padmanabha, LA.S. the former Registrar General, India and Slui V.S. Verma, LA.S. the present Registrar General, India. Dr. B.P. Mabapatra, Deputy Registrar General (Language) and his colleagues deserve our thinks for patiently scrutinising the language data. OUf th inks are also due to Shri N. R 1ml Rao, A~sistant Registrar General (Census &; Tabulation) and Shri R.P. Tomar, D~puty Director of Census Operations for their valuable guidance in preparing this paper. Shri Mahal Singh, Investigator and his colleagues in the Census Division whose names are given separately, ably coordinated tile in~flow and out~flow of the language data among the Headquarters, Language Divi~ion at Calcutta and the Directorates. They a'i deserve our thanks. In our own Office, we received the maximum c~operation and assistance at every stage from our staff who worked diligently and with devotion. Here, we would place on record our appreciation to the contribution of Shri S.P. Desai Assistant Director of Census Operations (T) and Sbri L. Rodrigues Investigator. The na'ne~ of the other staff' who have assisted in this work are given separately in this volume. PANAJI S. RAJENDRAN 1 December, 1987 Deputy Director of Census Operations, Goa Daman ill Diu and Dadra ,f, Nagar Haveli (Vii) ACKNO'VI~EDGEl\lENTS OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, INDIA Census Division 1 . Shri S.S. Bhardw;;lj Statistical Assistant 2. Smt. A. Tangri Computor 3. Smt. Anita Mehdiratta Computor 4. Smt. Kanchan Batr:l Assistant Compiler 5. Shri Vijay Kumar Assistant Compiler 6 Kum. Anuradha Datta Assistant Compiler Language Division 1. Smt. Krishna Choudhuri Investigator (L) 2. Smt. Tapati Gbosh Investigator (L) 3. Dr. S.P. Datta Research Officer (L) 4. Shri S.P. Srivastava Investigator (L) S. Dr. M.K. Koul S.T.A. 6. Shri J.e. Datta ADCO. (T) 7. Smt. Gouri Bose Statistical Assistant 8. Smt. Mira Bhomick Computor 9. Shri Madhu Sudan Ghosh UDe 10. Shri K.C. Karmakar Senior Stenographer 11. Smt. Mira Roy Senior Stenosrapher Printing DiTision 1. Shri Didar Singh Printing Officer 2! Shri H.K. Jbamb Sr. Tech. Asstt. (Ptg.) 3. Sbri Bhagwan Singh Computor 4. Shri Bhushan Lal Proof Reader DIRECTOR OF CENSUS OPERATIONS, GOA. DAMAN & DIU I. Shri K. R. Lotlikar Statistical Assistant 2. Shri A. Rego Statistical Assistant ( viii) NOTE ON THE LANGUAGE DATA In the 1981 Census a new question on the 'Language mainly spoken in the Household' was asked in the Household Schedule alongwith the two usual language questions on lmotber tongue' and 'Other lanfuages known'in the individual slip. This informati<ln adds not only a ~ew dimension to the language pwfile of the country but a useful ('ne, for it provides :l d)namic aspect of the language beha\iour as against the more or less stable picture thr0wn up by the "'other tongue d8ta. The instiluti('nal b('u~c~old~ which :nc linguis tically heterogenous and mayor may not ha\'e a unif0fm hou~ehold language are excluded from th('~e data. Out of the total number of hou~eholds of 210,412 the number of institution~1 households i~ only 1.923 with 27,718 population i.e. only 2.55 per cent oftctal POpullltion Question 5 on 'Language mainly spoken in the l10usdlOld' in the Household Schedule was canva~sed in all th e households other tban institu tional housch olds. The raw returns were rather unusually I;Hf,e. All these returns were scrutinized following usual linguistic methods including study;ng 'Language specimens' and undertaking field investigations.