CE:N~TRAL INDIA STATES CENSUS SERIES 1931 Volume XXIX. I RAJGARH STATE. TEXT, TABLES AND ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VilLAGES. COMPILED BY PANDIT HAR PRASAD, CENSUS OF.!!'ICER, BJ.JGARH STATE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF c. S. VENKATACHAR, OF '!'HI INDIAN OIVIL SBRVICE, SUPERINTENDENT OF CENSUS OPERATIONS IN CENTRAL INDIA. PlllNTItD 'BY R. M. Mbasker; Manager, Sbree Laksbmi Vilas Printing Press, Ltd., Indore. 1983 Price Rs. 5-8. INTRODUCTION. The Census of 1981 was the sixth enumeration of the pO~JU]a.tion in Rajgalh State and the fourth in which the British India sobedule was adopt­ ed. The present Cenaus was taken on the night of the 26th February 1931 and the procedure adopted for taking it was practioally the same as in 1921. 2. In the first instance a oomplete list of all villages and hamlets in th& whole State was prepared with information as to the number of houses in ea.ch village. s. The undersigned who -had previous expedence of the work having been Census Offioer in 1921 and a Oharge Superintendent in 1911, was ag .tD nominated as the State Census Officer and authorised to corre~pond direot with the Supedntendent of Census Operations in Central Iodi,a.. In J uly 1930 the Census Officer with two intelligent Charge Superintend~nts aQd four Supervisors one from eaoh Pargana went to Indore to receive the neoessary training, praotical and theoretical, in oonnection with the various stages of the operations. Instruotions, verbal and written, were given by the Superinten. dent together with practioal su~gestions. Epuipped with this training the Census Officer returned to Rajgarh to take up the work in right earnest. 4. Olasses were then opened at con~enient centres in the State ,and detailed instructions were given to the Charge Superintendents and selected Supervisors. 5. The Chluge Superintendents in their turn opened classes at the Head Quarters of the Tahsil, explained the rules and gave praotical training to the enumerators in house.numbering~ formation of blocks and filling up of schedules etc" etc" 6. For Census purposes the State was divided into 7 charges, 96 oirc1es and 1,182 blocks. The Tahsildars were appointed Charge Superintendents in the districts while the towns of Rajgarh and Biaora were put in obarge ~f the local judicial_officers. Subordinate Revenue, J udioial, Polioe officers as well 8S school masters were appointed supervisors, while junior clerks, Bohool masters literate oonstables, stUdents, literate shop-keepers and Patels of vil1ages formed the enumeration staff. 7. Owing to the paucity of sufficient literate persons in small villages more 'han one block ha.d to be given to an enumerator. The enumerators numbered 914 6S against 1,182 blooks. 8. Mr. O. S. Venkataohar, I. C.S., Provincial Superintendent of Oensus Operations in Central India, paid a visit to Rajgarh on 21st September 1930, inspected the work of house-numbering and entriei in the rough sohedules of Rajgarh and Biaora towns and expressed his satisfaotion. He also examined the Oensue maps of the oharges, circles and blocks showing the Dumber of 2 houses in, and the boundaries of, each circle and block, oopies of whioh had been supplied to all the officials concerned. He paid another visit on 21st January 1931 while the preliminary enumerati0n was in progress. He examined a good many entries in the books and pointed out SOlle defects in oolumns 4, 8, 10 and 11. Every endeavour was made to follow the instruotions so very kindly given on th~ spot. 9. The Census Offioer as well as Charge Superintendents kept moving abont cheoking the work of house-numbering and the preliminary enumeration started by the superviEors and enumerators. 10. The Diwan and other touring officers of the State helped in check ing the progress of the work from"time to time. 11. 'Ihe preliminary enumeration was oommenoed and finished in strict accordance with the CeDsus Calendar a8 were all stages of the operation. On the Census day two guns were fired at Rajgarh and at Biaora 1st at 6 P.M. 88 a warning to the people to suspend all business and return home and 2nd at '1 P. M. to inform the enumerators to oommence the work of fin~l enumerations. 12. For the final Census all publio offioes and sohools were olosed for two days on 26th and 27th February to enable all State servants to oarry out the Census work properly and prepare the Provisional totals. Oonveyanoes were supplied by the State to Supervisors and enumerators of distant ciroles and blocks who went round their respective areas and brought the record up to date by striking out the absentees and entering particulars of new arrivals and new born ohildren. 13. Special arrangements were made for the enumeration of travellers by issuing tiokets after making necessary entries at the starting place. 14. There were no fairs or religious gatherings or weekly markets in the State on the night of final enumeration. All such gathering3 whioh weru likely to take plaoe hsd been postponed for that day under the orders of His Highness to avoid movement of the surrounding people and faoilitate accurate reoord of each plaoe. 15. No special sohedule 88 in 1921 was presoribed for colleoting the .statistics relating to factories etc., but a oolumu was provided in the general sohedule for this purpose. There were 7 ginning faotories in the State whioh employ 237 persons on a ordinary working day. The entries oODoerning them were filled np by the supervisors concerned with the assistanoe of the mtmager. 16. On the morning of 27th February 1931 or immediately after the Dnal Census the enumerators met their supervisors at places previously agreed upon and prepared their abstracts, showing the number of' occmpied houses and total Dumber of persons, males aDd females, in their blooks. These abstracts were ohecked by other enumerators. Each supervisor after personally testing the correctness of the abstracts pertaining to the blocks in his circle prepared his circle summary aDd despatched it with the enumeration books to his Chargs Superintendent by the quiQkest route which had been settled beforehand. All 3 the circle summaries were examined and posted in the charge summary by the -Charge Superintendents and despatched to the Census Officer. 17. The Census Officer on receipt of the summaries made up his total for 'the State as a whole which was telegraphed as a Provisional total to thl;) Census Commissioner for India, Delhi and the Provincial Superintendent at 'Indore on the morning of 28th February 1931. 18. According to the Provisional total the population of the State . excluding the villages of Shivgarh and Abheypur which are supposed to be included in Gwalior amounted to 1,34,891 persons which remained the same after the detailed analysis of abstraction and Tabulation. This rusult was ·most creditable to all concerned. 19 The attitude of the people was through-out friendly and helpfllland no difficulty of any sort was experienoed in any part of the State. The work of abstraction and Tabul&tion was started by the State staff in the second week of March 1931 at the Central Office at Indore. Mr. Narain Prasad, Agricul­ tural Inspector, with 9 others was deputed by the State for this work and the requisite number of slip oopyists and sorters was engaged Iocd-lly. The work was completed within the stipulated time. It took about 7 months in all to copy entries from the schedules and to tabulate them to complete the final Imperial Tables. 20. The total cost of enumeration and oompilation amounted t() Rs. 3,118/- and further sum of Rs. 570/- in round figures will be required for printing the l'aport and winding up the accounts. 21. The total expenditure will thus amount to Rf{~700!- which gives an incidence of 5.25 ples per head of popubtion against 6 pies per head in the preceding Oensus, 22. In conclusion it is roy pleasant duty to express my thanks to the heads of Departments, the Tahsildars, and the Judicia} Officers of the towns of Rajgarh and Biaora for their co-operation and assistance throughout the vari­ ous stages of the Census operations. The supervisors and enumerators, both officials and non-offioials on whom the ~ brunt of the work fell, cheerfully and satisfactorily carried out their duties. It will not be Gut of place to men­ tion here the excellent work done snd special interest shown in the Census work by Pandit ShyllID Sunder Misra, B. A., L. L. B., District Magistrate Bill.ora, Lala Gouri Shanker~ Tahsildar of Biaora, and Thakur HtillWant Singh Military Secretary and A. D. C. to His Highness the Raja SPohib. 23. My grateful thank.:I are also due to Khan Bahadur Syed Shaukat Ali Sahib, the Diwan of the ::::hate for the ungrudging support}. have always reoeived at his hands in the discharge of my enerous and responsible duties.. I am also very much indebted to Mr. C. S. Venkaiacbar, 1. C. S., the Provin­ cial Superintendent of Census Operations in Central India for the valuable advice and al'Sistallca most generously given on all oooasions of doubt and difficulty. 4 24. My thanks Me also due to Pandit Jbaman La], Head Clerk, Central· India Agency Cen8UB Office wio spared no pains in giving me every help while at Indore. 25. I cannot conclude this report without expressing my heart-felt thanks to His Highness Raja Rawat Sir Bir Indra Singh-ji Sa.hib Bahadur K. O. I. E., for the lively interest he continued to take from the beginning to the end of the operations and affording all kinds of facilities for the work even at the cost of money to the State 8nd personal inconvenience in occasionally (lhecking the progress of the operations which was an example and 8 stimulus to all employed in the execution of their dl1ties.