CENSUS 1971 PARTS X-A & B TOWN & VILLAGE DIRECTORY SERIES-5 GUJARAT VILLAGE & TOWNWISE PRltvIAR Y CENSUS ABSTRACT KHEDA DISTRICT DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK C. C. DOCTOR of the Indian Administrative Service Director of Census Operations Gujarat DISTRICT KHEDA The antiquity of wood work in India has been long recognised, It is a fore-runner of stone carving of later days when it was gradually succeeded by stone and brick in search for durabiiity and permanence, The easy availability of the material and its plasticity have always made it a consistent favourite with craftsmen right upto contemporary times, Gujarat has always enjoyed a unique position in the development of wood carving not only in the construction and decoration of temples and dwelling hOllses but in areas as diverse as bird's houus and cages, carts, chariots, boats, articles of domestic llse and, in fact, wherever wood was used to build or shape things. There is hardly a district of Gujarat where wood work of a high degree of excellence cannot be found, The Districts of Mahesana, Ahmadabad, Klzedtt, Bhavnagar, Amreli and Junagadh lead the field but eqllisite wood work can also be found in the Districts of Jamnagar, Rajkot, Surendrana{?ar, Kutch. Banas Kantha and Sahar Kantha. The motif displayed on this volume shows details of a photograph of a profusely carved facade of a household shrine in the haveli of Laxmiram Dhaneshwar at Kheda built about 250 years ago. The specimen no longer exists but the original full photograph in the journal of Indian Art and Industries 1916 shows the fine quality of the work executed by wood car­ vers of Gujarat in the past. (Block from an ink tracing by K. D. Vaishnav. Geographer, from a photographic plate in "Wood Carving of Gujarat"---Census of India 1961-Vol. V Gujarat Part VTI-A(ii)) '" ~ II) II) ...a: '"..J I;j i ::E: 0 0 N =' <D "N ~ « <l- 0 N LU :J: ~ 2 -g ~ ~ !!! .~. a:: CD c( ._ !::! £0 ~ (.) '2: :::> CD <:t: <t (.) C) a:._ ... ~ en 0 CD 0 0 <l- E H \f G..::) ~ <I- CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Central Government Publications-Census of India 1971-Series-5-Gujarat IS being published in the following parts : Part Subject covered Number I-A General Report. I-B Detailed Analysis of the Demographic, Social, Cultural and Migration Patterns. I-C Subsidiary Tables. II-A General Population Tables ('A' Series). I1-B Economic Tables ('B' Series). II-C(i) Distribution of Population, Mother Tongue and Religion, Scheduled Cagtes & Scheduled Tribes. II-C(ii) Other Social & Cultural Tables and Fertility Tables, Table., on Household Com­ position, Single Year Age, Marital Status, Educational Levels, Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes, etc., Bilingualism. III Establishments Repol t and Tables ( 'E' Series ). IV-A Housing Report and Housing Subsidiary Tables. IV-B Housing Tables. V Special Tables and Ethnographic Notes on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. VI-A Town Directory. VI-B Special Survey Reports on Sdected Towns. VI-C Survey Reports on Selected Villages. VII Special Report on Graduate and Technical Personnel. VIII-A Administration Report-Enumeration 1 r For official use only VIII-B Administration Report-Tabulation. j IX Census Atlas. DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK X-A Town and Village Directory. X-B Village and Townwise Primary Census Abstract. X-C Analytical Report, Departmental Statistics and District Census Tables. CONTENTS Pages PREFACE v-x FIGURES AT A GLANCE xi-·xii ALPHABETIC LIST OF VILLAGES xiii-xxi Part-A-Town and Village Directory General Note 3-4 Introductory Note on Town and Village Directory 5-19 Town Directory and its Appendices Statement Status, Growth, History and Functional Category of Towns 23 Statement II Physical Aspects and Location of Towns, 1969 25 Statement III Municipal Finance, 1968-69 26 Statement IV Civic and Other Amenities, 1969 27 Statement V Medical, Educational, Recreational and Cultural Facilities in Towns, 1969 29 Statement VI Trade, Commerce, Industry and Banking, 1969 31 Statement VII Population by Religion, 1971 32 Appendix I List of Urban Areas as per Location Code Numbers 33 Appendix II Name of Out-growth of Urban area which does not qualify to be treated as Separate Town 33 Village Directory Mehmedabad Taluka 35-39 Nadiad Taluka 41-47 Anand Taluka 49-53 Petlad Taluka 55-59 Borsad Taluka 61-67 Cambay Taluka 69-75 Matar Taluka 77-83 Kapadvanj Taluka 85-93 Balasinor Taluka 95-101 Thasra Taluka 103-109 Abstract of Amenities at each TalukaJMahal 110-111 Pages Part-B-Village and TOWDWise Primary Census Abstract General Note 3-4 Primary Census Abstract Mehmedabad Taluka 5-13 Nadiad Taluka 15-29 Anand Taluka 31-43 Petlad Taluka 45-53 Borsad Taluka 55-63 Cambay Taluka 65-75 Matar Taluka 77-81 Kapadvanj Taluka 83-93 Balasinor Taluka 95-101 Thasra Taluka 103-111 Block Directory showing Jurisdiction of Enumerator's Blocks in Urban Areas. 113-122 MAPS District Map Frontispiece Mehmedabad Taluka Facing Page 5 Nadiad Taluka 15 " " 31 Anand Taluka " " PetIad Taluka 45 " " Borsad Taluka 55 " " 65 Cambay Taluka " " Matar Taluka 77 " " Kapadvanj Taluka 83 " Balasinor Taluka 95 Thasra Taluka 103 PREFACE The District Census Handbooks are being Part B published regularly since Earlier they were 1951. (1) Urban Block and Villagewise Primary brought out under the name of "Village Hand­ Census Abstract books" and contained only the population totals_ They are prepared by the Census Organisation Part C on behalf of the State Government and published by the IMter. They ate the first to be publisbed (1) Analytical Report in the series of 1971 Census publications, which (2) Administrative Statistics are now to follow. The need for making avail­ able to the State Government, the Census data (3) Census Tables as early as possible after tbe taking of the count, bas been recognised since long. It is a matter of It was origin a lIy decided that each part deep satisfaction that the present volume is being would be brought out separately. But since the published within a year of the taking of the data (or parts A and B bas been prepared Census. almost at thl:: same time, it is decided to combine these parts into one volume. Part C wbich has The data collected during 1971 Census was to await the collection of official statistics from tabulated initially at three Regional Tabulation various Departments of the State Government Offices at Surat, Rajkot and Bhavnagar for aDd preparation of Census Tables, would be rural areas and one more Tabulation Office at publisbed separately. Ahmedabad which dealt with the slips of urban areas only. The data abstracted at the Regional The Town Directory consists of information offices was brought to Ahmedabad where it was about the status, growth history and fUDctional compiled for tbe State as a whole and is DOW category of towns and their pbysical aspects, being published. location, Municipal finances, civic and other amenities like sewerage, protected water supply, The District Census Handbook contains fire fighting service, electrification etc. It also primary data upto the village level for rural contains information about medical, educational, areas and enumerator's block level for urban recreational and cultural facilities available at areas. It is for the first time that in 1971 tbe towns. Detailed information about trade, Census we are giving information about urban commerce, industry and banking is also provided areas of the State in a separate part called here. Tbe population of tbe towns according to the "Town Directory". We are also giving compre­ 1971 Census by religion and Scheduled Caste and hensive information about rural areas in the Scheduled Tribe is furnished here. The Town "Village Directory". This is further supplemented Directory is a new feature of 1971 Census and the by tbe Alphabetical List of Villages for faciHty above information bas been compiled in it for tbe of reference. first time. It bas been decided to bring out the Tbe Village Directory contains comprehensive District Census Handbooks of 1971 in three information about the amenities available at the parts as under:- village such as educational and medical, supply of electric power, drinking water facility, P~rt A communication through road, rail, kU1cha road, (1) Town Directory pucca road and bus route, existence of post, telegraph and telephone facilities, etc. Further (2) Village Directory information about staple food. area under varinus uses Iiko forest, cultivable land, source and the village officials and scrutinised at taluka extent of irrigation, cultivable waste and name level by the Statistical Assistant before returning of the nearest town and its distance, day on to this office. The Development:Commissionel which 'bazar' is being held, if any, and its and the Director, Bureau of Economics and importance from religious, historical and archaeo­ Statistics, issued firm instructions to tbe field logical point of view is recorded here. staff to ensure tbat the information was filled and scrutinised wit Ii the utmost care. After tbis The Primary Census Abstract contains infor­ information was received in the Census mation about the number of occupied residential Directorate, it was subjected to a very close and houses and households, total population including rigorous checking by a celJ which was specially houseless and institutional population, literacy, created for the purpose. Tbere were a number Scqeduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe population of points on which further probe became and the distribution of working population into necessary, where the information was found to nine industrial categories of workers and non­ be incomplete or inconsistent. Our greatest workers. hurdle was the reconciliation of area figures as reported by the village officials and those reported The Analytical Report in Part C takes note by tile District Inspector of Land Records.