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CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 PUNJAB DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK No.9 HOSHIARPUR DISTRICT R.L. ANAND Superintendent of Census Operations, Punjab, FIaryana" and Union Territory of Chandigarh Published by the Government of Punjab 1968 HOSHIARPUR DISTRICT REFERENCE DISTRICT BOUNDARY .•....•..•..•..•.•. TAHSIL 8ROAD GAUGE RAILWAY ..•.......••• _ 00::.:-=- METALLED ROAD._ .•••..•...••..•.••.••. _. UNMETALL EO ROAD................... .. RIVER ............................................ _ .••.. EXISTING CANAL ............................... TAHSIL HEADQUARTERS ........... _. 0 DISTRICT HEAOQUARTERS........ @ URBAN CENTRE................................. • 10 5 0 10 MILES 15 0 15 KILOMETRES CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 A-CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS The-publications relating to Punjab bear Volume No. XIII, and are bound separately as follows:- Part I-A General Report Part IV-A , , Report on Housing and Establish- ments Part I-BJ Report on Vital Statistics Part IV-B Tables on Housing and Establish- ments Part I-C(i) , , Subsidiary Tables Part V-A , , Special Tables on· Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Part I-C(ii) Subsidiary Tables Part V-B Ethnographic Notes on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Part II-A-: General.Population Tables Part VI Village Survey Monographs 44 in number, each relating to an individual village Part II-B(l),. General Economic Tables (Tables Part VIl-A Report on Selected Handicrafts B-1 to B-IV, B-VIlI and B-IX) Yan II-BCii) General Economic Tables (Tables Part VII-B Report and Tables on Fairs and B-V to B-VII) Festivals_] Part I1-C(i) , , Social and Cultural Tables Part VIII-A Administrative Report : Enumera- tion (Not for sale) Part n-C(ii) Migration Tables Part VIII-B Administrative Report : Tabula- tion. (Not for sale) Part III Household Economic Tables Part IX Socio-B<:onomic Atlas B-PUNJAB GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 19 Volumes of District Census Handbooks:- DCH-l Hissar DCH·ll Ludhiana DCH-2 Rohtak] DCH·12 Ferozepur DCH-3 Gurgaon. f>CH·13 Amritsar DCH·4 , , Kamal DCll·14 Gurdaspur DCH-5 , , Ambala DCH-15 Kap'urthala DCH·6 Simla PCJI·16 Bhatinda DCH·7 Kangra DCH·17 Sangrur DCH-8 Lahaul & Spiti DCH-18 Patiala DCH·9 Hoshiarpur DCH·19 Mahendragarh DCH-IO Iullundur PREFACE The reports and statistical volumes pertaining to the 1961-census fall under three broad groups on the basis of territory coverage. The All-India Reports and Tables compiled in the office of the Registrar General, Tndia, encompass the entire country. The reports compiled by the State Superintendents relate to individual States and Centrally Administered Territories. The third group consists of District Cen~us Handbooks, the scope of which is limited to individual Districts, and they give information for each town and village. The Hand books were compiled by the Superintendent of Census Operations, Punjab, but the State Government has undertaken their publishing. The District Census Handbooks were published for the first time at the 1951-census. They proved very useful with the officers, working in Community Development Blocks, Tahsils and Districts, and were consul ted in connection with elections, as also by students of social sciences interested in local problems. This Handbook contains the essential census data for each village and town (according to wards) in the District. Besides, some other useful information has been included in it, thus making it a self-contained book of reference for the District. The book is divided into four parts. Part I consists of four chapters. Chapter I introduces the District, giving information on its location, physical features, climate, fauna and flora, towns and places of interest, a brief history of the District and its administrative machinery. In Chapter II are discussed the use of land, main crops and irrigation, industries, trade and commerce, and communications. In Chapter III the salient features of population are discussed. Chapter IV deals with social and developmental activities, and achieve ments during the First and Second Five-Year Plans. In Part If are presented the statistics'Secured from various Government Departments relating to rainfall, temperature, land utilisation, irrigation, area and yield of principal crops, livestock, industry, co-operation, education, printing and publishing, entertainments, medical and health, births and deaths, transport and communications, community development activities, banks and insurance, and justice. At the end appears a Table on the fairs and festivals in the District. The Tables relating to the 1961-census are presented in Part III. Part IV contains a Directory of Villages and Towns, sbowing which among them have educational institutions, hospitals and dispensaries, post and telegraph offices, electrification and protected water-supply; area; number of occupied residential houses and households living therein; popUlation; persons belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes; number of literate and educated persons; number of workers in nine broad industrial categories; and number of non-workers. The book contains several maps. There is a map of the District showing the administrative boundaries, roads and railways, rivers and canals, and location of towns. Another map shows the distribution of population; the population of towns is shown by proportionate circles, and of rural areas by dots. For each Tahsil in the District two types of maps have been prepared, one showing the location of social amenities, and the second showing the boundaries ofvilJages and towns. These maps were prepared by Sarvshri Qurmit Singh Gill, Economic Investigator, and Malkiat Singh, Draftsman. This pUblication is the outcome of the joint efforts of a large number of workers and Government Departments, and grateful acknowledgement is made of the help received from them. Within the Census Or ganisation mention needs to be made of Shri Jaswant Singh Dilawary, Statistical Assistant, and Sarvshri Vishwa Mittar and Jaswant Lal Asstt. Ccmpilers, for preparing the Tables appearing in Part II, under the supervision of Shri T.P.Garg, P.C.S., Deputy Superintendent of Census Operations; and of~i G.D. Singla, Statistical Assistant. (now Tabulation Officer) and Sarvshri Joginder Nath Suri, Computor (now Statistical Assis.tant), Dharam Paul Jain, Computor, and Ajab Lal Kakkar, Assistant Compiler, fer preparing the Tables appearing in Parts III and N, under the supervision of Shri Pawan Kumar, the then Tabulation Officer. /! Shri 1anak Raj Vasbistha, Tabulation Officer, produced a comprehensive and commendable draft of this Handbook after paying a number of visits to the District, and after coIlecting a lot of information by personal observations and discussions with a large number of Officers in the District. Sbri 1anak Raj Vashistha, Tabulation Officer, and Sarvshri Joginder Nath Suri, statistical Assistant, and Ajab Lal Kakkar, Assistant compiler rendered valuable assistance in seeing the report through the press. The organisation is deeply indebted to Shri R.L. Anand, Ex-Superintendent of Census Operations, Punjab, Haryana and Union Territory of Chandigarh, for his overall direction, guidance and editing of this Report. Our My thanks are due also to Shri K.C. Kuriyan, Controller of Printing and Stationery, and Assistant Controller Shri P. Ommen, for their personal attention in the printing of the book. H. S. KWATRA, P.C.S., 1. L. ARORA, H.C.S., CHANDIGARH: Deputy Superin~endent of <;ensus Operation s. Deputy Superintendent of Census Operations, August 20,1968. Punjab, Chandlga,h. Haryana, Chandigarh. CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE PART I-INTRODUCTION TO THE DISTRICT 1-55 <:;:hapter I-Introduction 3 Chapter II-Economy 19 Chapter III-Population 37 Chapter IV-Social and Developmental Activities 47 PART TI-DEPARTMENTAL STATISTICS 57-lSI Explanatory Note 61 Tables 66 PART ill-CENSUS TABLES 15"3-309 Explanatory Note 159 Tables 187 PART IV--DffiECTORY OF VILLAGES AND TOWNS i-cxJtix Explanatory Note ii Directory iv Alphabetical List -of Villages ciii MAPS Hoshi.arpur District: Tahsil boundaries, Towns, Roads, Railways, Rivers and canals Frontispiece Hoshiarpur District: Distribution of Population, 1961 facing page 37 Location of Schools, Dispensaries and Post Offices: 1. Dasuya Tahsil 2. Hoshiarpur Tahsil 3. Una Tahsil 4. Garhshankar Tahsil .. facing page 47 Boundaries of Villages: Dasuya Tahsil facing page cv Hoshiarpur Tahsil facing page cxiii Una Tahsil facing page cxix Garhshankar Tahsil facing page cxxv PART I INTR ODUCTION TO THE DISTRICT CHAPTER T INTRODUCTION ~1l1e.-There are two versions about the foundation of Hoshiarpur town, from which the District derives it~ name. One Hoshiar Khan, a resident of Bajwara (now a village near Hoshiarpur town) lived here about 600 years ago, and the 'town was named after him. The other version is that Hargobind and Ram Chand, Diwans of\ the Emperor Mohammad Tughlak, who reigned some six hundred years ago, founded this town. Lr).cafion and Boundaries.-Hoshiarpur is one of the nine Districts in the Jullundur Administrative Division. the District comprises that much portion of the Shiwalik Range as lies between the Sutlej and the Beas, toget}"\er with a broad strip of the country at the foot of the range, and the greater portion of the valley of the Swan Nadi. The District is situated between 30° 58' 10" and 32° OS' 50" north latitude and 75° 28' 15" and 76° 38' 50' e;ast longitude, it is bounded by Kangra, Simla and Bilaspur on the east, Jullundur and Kapurthala on the west, Gurdaspur (across the river Beas) on north and north·west and Ambala (beyond river Sutlej) on the . .South. The maximum length from north-west to south-east is 94 miles but the breadth varies from 20 to 32 miles. Area (Table A-1)*.-The District covers 2,210 .square miles according t<> the Surveyor General, India, and 2,221'8 square miles according to the Director of Land Records, Punjab. It is divided into the following four TahstJs: - Tahsil ~REA (SQ. MILES) Total Rural Urban Dasuya 501.5 494,9 6·6 Hoshiarpur 523·7 519·3 4.4 Una 690'2 682,2 8·0 Garhshankar 506.4 505·9 0.5 Total 2,221 8 2,202 ·3 19,5 A notable feature of the District is the large number of chos (hill streams) which bring down water at high speed during the monsoon months but remain dry for the rest of the year.