CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 VOLUME XX HIMACHAL PRADESH PART II-A GENERAL POPULATION TABLES & PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACTS RAM CHANDRA PAL SINGH of the Indian Administrative Service Superintendent of Census Operations, Himachal Pradesh CENSUS OF INDIA 1961-· PUBLICATIONS Central Government Publications 1961 Census Report, Volume XX-Himachal Pradesh, will be in the following Parts- I-A General Report I-B Report on Vital 'Statistics of the decade including reprints 1-0 Subsidiary Tables II-A Gcneral Population Tables and Primary Oensus Abstracts (The present part) II-B Economic T.ables II-O Cultural and Migration Tablcs III Household Economic Tables IV Report and Tables on Housing and Establishments V-A Special Tables on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (including reprints) V-B Ethnographic notes on Scheduled Castes and Tribes VI Village Survey Monographs (35 villages) VII-A Survey of Handicrafts VII-B Fairs and Festivals VIII-A Administrative Report-Enumeration (For official use only) VIII-B Administl'atiye Report~Tabnlation (For official use only) IX Maps 1961 Census Himachal Pradesh Government Publications District Handbook-1 Ohamba District Handbook-2 Mandi District Handbook-3 Bilaspur District Handbook-4 Mahasu District Handbook-5 Sirmur District Handbook-6 Kinnaur ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is a very great pleasure I suppose for one to see the book complete or a part of an assignment complete. This report i~ a part of work towards which hundreds of people, most of whom will remain anonymous forever, have shown goodness, kindness and hard work in preparing all the initial material. These include District Census Officers, Charge Officers, Supervisors, Enumerators and personnel working in our Tabulation Office . \ Everyone tried to make a success and that is my first lot of gratitude. I also take this opportunity of expressing my deep gratitude to Shri A. Mitra, Registrar General, India, f:t;om whom I have received great kindnesses and from whom I have learnt my A.B.C. of census as it is today. These educative years and -my personal association with him, I shall always cherish as a part of a very interesting assignment. My gratitude to Shri D. Natarajan, Deputy Registrar General, India, is also there. He has always been so helpful in his quiet and unassuming ways. I take this opportunity of conveying my gratitude to the former Chief Secretary of Himachal Pradesh, Shri B.N. Maheshwari, I.A.S., now Chief Commissioner of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, who helped me to set up my office in Simla. Silli K.D. Ballal, Central Tabulation Officer and his staff patiently checked up my material for accuracy and always made suggestions for improvement of this volume. For Durga Singh, my Office Superintendent, I have a very special gratitude and a deep debt for the considerations and for every possible kind of help that I have received. Had it not been for people like him and my some other valued colleagues here, it would never have been possible for me to complete nearly four and a half happy years of this assignment. Though Rikhi Ram Sharma, Assistant Superintendent of Census Operations, has joined last year, he has been of help at all stages and my gratitude to him is more than a mere professional one. Bishan Dass, Het Ram, S.P. Shabi, and S.S. Sarwal have all helped in preparing the tables. At all stages my colleagues have borne this assignment happily, working late hours willingly and cheerfully. 0.0. Handa has prepared the map. Shri S.R. Sethi of the Government of India Press has shown great patience in dealing with all our requests and has advised about the lay-out of the census reports. He has always been a great asset. - SIMLA, RAM OHANDRA PAL SINGH Diwali, Saka, 1885 J5th N oyemberl 19fJJ 11{ /B(D) 1800 (HP)-2(a) CONTENTS PAGES Map Facing P. 1 Prefatory Note 1 Population of India, Zone$, States, Union Territories and Other ArealS 6 A-I-AREA, HOUflES AND POPULATION FI,f-leaf 13 Union Table A-I 24 Union Territory Table A-I 25 Appendix I-STATEMENT' SHOWING 1951 TERRITORIAL UNITS CONSTITUTING THE PRESENT SET UP OF HIMACHAL PRADESH Fly-leaf 21) Appendix I 30 Sub-Appendix to Appendix I-Area. for 1951 and 1961 for those Municipal Towns which have undergone changes in area since 1951 Census 32 Appendix II -VILLAGES WITH A POPULATlON OF 5,000 AND OVER AND TOWNS WITH A POPULATION UNDER 5,000 Fly-leaf 33 Appendix II 34 Appendix III-HoUSELESS AND INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION Fly-loaf 35 Appendix III 36 A-II-VARIATION IN POPULATION DURING SIXTY YEARS Fly-Ie&f 41 Table A·IT 44 Appendix-UNION TERRITORy/DISTRICTS SHOWING 1951 POPULATION ACCORDING TO THEm TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION IN 1951, CHANGES IN AREA AND THE POPULATION INVOLVED IN THOSE CHANGES 45 A·III-VILLAGES CLASSIFillD BY POPULATION Fly.leal 49 Union Table A-III 52 Union Territory Table A-III 54 A-lV-TOWNS .AND TOWN GROUPS CLASSIFIED BY POPULATION IN 1961 WITH VARIA. TION SINCE 1901 Fly.leaf 59 Table A-IV 62 Appendix I -NEW TOWNS ADDED IN 1961 AND TOWNS IN 1951 DECLASSIFIED IN 1961 64 Appendix II-TOWNS WITH THEm AREA AIm JURISDICTION • III 65 UNION PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACTS Fly.leaf 71 Primary Census Abstracts 79 Annezure- HOllselist 98 Household Schedule 100 Individual Slip lQ1 o o o o 16 77 78 79, AND KASHMIR I J ,,-·";"1.-·-'\ •",/ ·kllAR '\ ..,. ....J (P ....GI) '. 33 ~ .",!'" , ....... ) (.\. HIMACHAL PR ADESH (."', .", .~ "':: - i.til "\ • Tl$A \ .' .,. i (CHAURAH)\ • .1 . ADMINISTRATIVE:1961 (........ \ ~ ., ~.... ,_ ...... '. I ,'" _i ....... ,- .I '. @ CHAMBA l ............ j l''I(SHA TT ;"All i . '. c~u"'Ri Kt-tA5 • -. ·BRAHMAUR 1" \. "'\''' ~ ~, f .-: • ~ \ .... \.:I ... .... \. " ..., .'" .... ...." p u o E s . _._ EXTERNAL &OUNDARY ..... _._ STATE aOUNOA~Y DISTRICT BOUNDAII'I TEHSll BOUNDARV SUB DIVISION BOUNDARY • STATE HEADQUARTERS @ DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS MILES 2 0 10 0 TEHSIL,SUb OIV(tION HEADQUARTERS 1 I I I K_.I(ASUMPTI S~.SOlQN I 10 I I I 20 0 20 40 "I\'O"El~li.to I I , £A~T Of GREENWICH 78 PREFATORY NOTE Tne second Census of free India was held in general in In Snowbound areas of Chamba District the revisional February-March, 1961_ This census,-like the previous ones, round was held from the 21st September to 23rd Septem­ was held according to universally accepted fundamental rules, ber, 1960, and in snowbound areas of Mandi, 1\lahasu and namely, that census should be simultaneous throughout the Kinnaur Districts the revisional round was done from the 1st country, regular, universal and must cover every human being. November to 3rd November, 1960. There was, howe~er, a little_ departure here in the dates of enumeration ~n non-synchronous (snowbound) areas_ Since enumeration in the snowbound arells had to be undertaken almost 6 months earlier than the general enumer!!.­ Conducting census-a gigantic task-required detailed tio'il, the setting up of district census organisations at a very planning in advance, elaborate arrangements and a strict sche­ early date was a necessity. dule of the operations. This huge task could be accomplished only by harnessing the vast administrative machinery of Before taking any concrete steps in the building JlP pf the Government. vast census organisation, the Registrar General, India, had prescribed certain pre-tests on the results of which the various As already stated elaborate arrangements had to be made schedules and forms had to be finally drawn up. In Himachal for the census. These were, broadly speaking, arrangement of Pradesh two pre-tests were held and the work was entrusted census personnel, territorial organisation, training of cen,uI primarily to the Director of Economics and Statistics. The lI:orkers and census operations proper. main points of study in, the first pre-test were- The Census being a Central subject, the Centml Govern­ (i) Houselist forms ment in pursuance of section 3 of the Census Act of 1948, (ii) Sequence of Enumeration Schedules which provided "the legal basis, issued a Notification on the 5th December, 1959, declaring that a census of population of (iii) Household Schedules India would, be taken during the year 1961. (iv) Individual Slips To direct, ,guide and operate all the details connected with (v) Enumeration the taking ofthe census in all the units constituting the Union, a Census Commissioner (Registrar General) was appointed (vi) Time taken for filling up the Enumer!\tion Sche­ by the Central Government. Next, a State Census Superinten. dules dent was appointed for each State and Union Territory. (vii) Supervisors The State Governments and Union Territories on their (viii) Co-operation from the publie part loaned the services of their "dministrative personnel for census operations. (ix) General points The 1961 Census in Himachal Pradesh was completed on the In the seconll pre.test all the above items required further 5th March, 1961, and the actual period of enumeration was litudy and there was an additionalitem of 'wastage' on account spread over the period from tho 10th February to 1st of un-used slips. March (sunrise), 1961, followed by a revisional round from the 2nd 1\larch to 5th l\Iarch, 1961. This was the scheduled All these things were further discussed at the conference period for enumeration in Himachal Pradesh in respect of of the Superintendents of Census Operations held at Delhi Bon-snowbound areas. In snowbound areas the counting was between September 24, and October 1, 1959, where all the done on different dates as under- census schedules, forms and the instructions for filling up the same were finally drawn up. Various steps in respect of census (i) Snowbound areas of Chamba District-5th Sep­ had to be completed strictly according to the schedule.