Village Survey Monograph No-11, Village Bankati, Part VI, Vol-XV

CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 VOLU:ME xv UTT AR PRADESH PART VI VILLAGE SURVEY MONOGRAPH No. 11 General Ediior P. P. BHATNAGAR. 01 the Inditm Administrative Service Superintendent 0/ Census Operations, Uttar Pradesh VILLAGE BANKATI (TAHSIL NIGHASAN, DISTRICT KBERI) BY; R. C. SHARMA, M. A. 01 the Uttar Pratksh Civil Servia Deputy Superitltmdene 01 Census Operations o -'7 c Bd'1 / UTTAR PRADESH SOCIO-ECONOMIC'SURVEY 0 0, "" '" 2 ~ r<gO MILES 60 40 20 ,:: ,l<': ~t,== I Be 60 40 2,0 J = 'Ie ,:: ' !_C~JlETRES , i I 1eO 21 ~ )- ~, z .... :c. r. J> ;, J ;.. ~ " \ " o 2 !i I ~1~17;7~O.. ;; .. e;~7;1~1~~~~~~7~9~O~i;;~~~;;;O;~;O~;1~;;;;~ .. ~a~f~!~~~~~~a~~Q~~~,~~~~~~_~~O;'~~~~~,~ _____ _3___ ~.L41 PS\)P-A 1'-13 (f.NSl's-1964 ',OFF.E'l') (e) GOvt""'MENTOF1ND'A C".).<,(.,. "63 Based upon S'~'rveV of India Map with the perm ~[tlon or the Sk:"Vfl'Qr- Gpneral of IndIa CENSUS OF INDIA, 1961 Central Government Pnblications Census Report, Volume XV-Uttar Pradesh is published in the following parts: I-A(i-ii) General Report. I-B Report on Vital Statistics. I-C(i-vi) Subsidiary Tables (in 6 books). II-A General Population Tables. II-B(i-vi) General Economic Tables (in 6 books): II-C(i-vi) Cultural and Migration Tables (in 6 books). III-A Household Economic Tables. III-B Household Economic Tables (concluded). IV-A Report on Housing and Establishments and Housing and Establishment Tables (E-series Tables-except E-III). i IV-B Housing and Establishment ~ables (E-III). V':'A Special Tables for Scheduled Castes. V-B Reprints from old Census Reports and Ethnographic Notes. VI Village Survey Monographs (Monographs on selected Villages). ~II-A Handicraft Survey Reports. VII-B Fairs and Festivals in Uttar Pradesh. VIII-A Administration' Report-Enumeration (for official use only). VIII-B Administration Report-Tabulation (for official use only). IX Census Atlas of Uttar Pradesl,1. X Special Report on Kanpur~ State Government Publications $4 Volumes of District Census Handbooks. CONTENTS Page Foreword ... i Preface v I. The Village 1 II. The People and their Material Equipment 4 III. Economy 15 IV. Social and Cultural Life 21 V. Conclusion .. 36 Tables 38 List of Villages selected for Study 44 UST OF TABLES TABU! I Area. Houses and Popuiation T ABLB II Population by Age Groups TABLB III Size and Composition of Households TABLE IV Caste and Nature of Families TABLE V Households classified by Religions. Castes and Sub-castes TABLB VI Age and Marital Status TABLE VII Education TABLB VIII Workers and Non-workers by Sex and Broad Age Groups TABLE IX Workers classified by Sex, Broad Age Groups and Occupations TABLE X Households by Number of Rooms and by Number of Persons Occupying TABLE XI Livestock TABL8 XII Agricultural Produce of Cultivation run bv the Hcntseholds and its Disposal TABLE XIII Indebtedness by Income (:jroups TABLE XIV Indebtedness by Causes MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHS, SKETCHES AND' DIAGRAMS I. Maps Frontispiece 1. Map of Uttar Pradesh showing location of villages selected for survey Facing page 1 2. MaP shoWing habitation pattern of Bankati . : . Between pages II. Photographs and Sketcbes 1. Mohan river 2-3 2. A view of Post Office 2-3 3. Women taking water from well 2-3 4. Potable water placed under grass roof 2-3 5. A typical Tharu male . 6-7 6. A Tharu youth wearing Phatui and Dhoti 6-7 7. A Tharu male 6-7 8. Males wearing Dhoti and Phatui 6-7 9. A Tharu girl . 6-7 10. Females wearing Ghagra and Cholia 6-7 11. A typical Tharu female . 6-7 12. An unmarried young girl wearing omnibus ornaments 6-7 13. A typical Tharu female loaded with ornaments 6-7 14. A woman wearing ornaments ., 6-7 15. Hair style 6-7 16. A general vieW of houses 6-7 17. A typical Tharu hut 6-7 18. Making a roof ., 8-9 19. Grain preservers .• 8-9 20. Utensils 8-9 21. Utensils 8-9 22. Utensils .. 8-9 23. Sigri used in cooking fish 8-9 24. Chillis hanging in the roof 10-11 25. Ploughing the field 16-17 26. Tailor in the village 16-17 27. Goldsmith 16-17 28. Blacksmith 16-17 29. Wooden plough 20-21 30. Subash plough .. 20-21 31. A Kilwai 20-21 32, A spade .. 20-21 33. Sickle and Scythe 20-21 34. Hal.. " 20-21 35. Goats and sheep in pasture land 22-23 36. Cattle resting under shed 22-23 37. A provision shop " .. .. .. 22-23 38. A woman sewing her Choli and a mate making a net used for fishing 22-23 39. Husking of paddy 22-23 40. A village carpenter at work .. 22-23 41. Dancing 30-31 42. Playing a game of cards 30-31 IV. Diagrams 1. Population by age-groups 4-5 2. Population by caste 4-5 3. Size of households 4-5 4. Nature of families 4-5 5. Workers and Non-workers 22-23 6. Occupation 22-23 7. Indebtedness by income groups 22-23 8. Indebtedness by causes .. 22-23 9. Marital status by sex and ago-groups 28-29 1D. Bd'Qcation. , • , f • . , ' " .. 28-2P FOREWORD Apart from laying the foundations of build up a picture for the whole State in demography in this subcontinent, a hun quantitative terms on the basis of villages dred years' of the Indian Census has also selected statistically at random. The produced 'elaborate and scholarly accounts selection was avowedly purposive: the of the variegated phenomena of Indian life object being as much to find out what was -sometimes with no statistics attached, but happening and how fast to those villages usually with just enough statistics to give which had fewer reasons to choose change empirical underpinning to their conclu and more to remain lodged in the past as tol sions'. In a country, largely illiterate, discover how the more 'normal' types of ,where stati~tical or numerical comprehen villages were changing. They were to be sion of even such a simple thing as age was primarily type studies which, by virtue of liable to be inaccurate, an understanding their number and distribution, would also of the social structure was essential. It give the reader a 'feel' of what was going was more necessary to attain a broad under on and some kind of a map of the country. standing of what was happening around oneself than to wrap oneself up in 'statis A brief account of the tests of selection tical ingenuity' or 'mathematical manipu will help to explain. A minimum of lation'. This explains why the Indian thirty-five villages was to be chosen with Census came to be interested in 'many by great care to represent adequately geogra paths' and 'nearly every branch of scho phical, occupational and even ethnic diver larship, from anthropology and sociology sity. Of this minimum of thirty-five, the to geography and religion'. distribution was to be as follows: In the last few decades the Census has (a) At l~ast eight villages were to be so increasingly tumed its efforts to the pre selected that each of them would contain sentation of village statistics. This suits one dominant community with one predo the temper of the times as well as our poli minating occupation, e.g., fishermen, forest tical and economic structure. For even workers, jhum cultivators, potters, weavers, as we have a great deal of centralization salt-makers, quarry workers, etc. A village on the one hand and decentralization on should have a minimum population of 400, the other, my colleagues thought it would the optimum being between 500 and 700. be a welcome continuation of the Census tradition to try to invest the dry bones of (b) At least seven villages were to be of village statistics with flesh-and-blood numerically prominent Scheduled Tribes accounts of social structure and social of the State. Each village could represent change. It was accordingly decided to a particular tribe. The minimum popula select a few villages in every State for tion should be 400, the optimum being special study, where personal observation between 500 and 700. would be brought to bear on the interpre (c) The third group of villages should tation of statistics to find out how much each be of fair size, of an old and settled of a village was static and yet changing and character and contain variegated occupa ~ow fast the winds of change were blow tions and be, if possible, multi-ethnic in .mg and from where. composition. By fair size was meant a Randomness of selection was, therefore, population of 500-700 persons or more· eschewed. There was no intention to The village should mainly depend on Ii agriculture and be sufficiently away from attended; worship of deities; festivals and the major sources of modern communica fairs. There were to be recordings, of tion such as the district administrative course, of cultural and social traits and headquarters and business centres. It occupational mobility. This was followed should be roughly a day's journey from the up in March 1960 by two specimen above places. The villages were to be schedules. one for each household, the selected with an eye to variation in terms other for the village as a whole, which apart of size, proximity to city and other means from spelling out the mode of inquiry sug of modern communication, nearness to gested in the September 1959 conference, hills, jungles and major rivers.

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