CENS:US 1961 GUJARAT DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK 11 AHMEDABAD [)ISTRICT R. K. TRIVEDI Superintendent of Census Operations, Gujarat PRICE 'as. 9.45 nP. DISTRICT AHMEDABAD • M~H'ANA - J' .' :" ." ..... : .•. .... , REFERENCES ., DiSTRICT H Q S TALUKA H Q -- D,STRICT BOUNDARY ..•.••.•• TALUKA BOUNDARY :tmm BROAO GAUGE - METER GAUGE .,e= CANAL _RIVER ® RUT HOUSE ® POLICE STATION o LlNI"HAet~!~ • VILLAGE~ • VILLAGe2ooo~ • VILLAGE _ 50._ e TOWN 1!!!!J MUNICIPALITY -=- NATIONAL HIGHWAY = STATE HIGHWAY ---- LOCAL ROAD PO POST OFFICE P T POST • TELEGRAPH CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS Census of India, 1961 Volume V-Gujarat is being published in the following parts: I-A General Report I-B Report on Vital Statistics and Fertility Survey I-C Subsidiary Tables II-A General Population Tables II-B (1) General Economic Tables (Tables B-1 to B-IV-C) II-B (2) General Economic Tables (Tables B-V to B-IX) I1-C Cultural and Migration Tables III Household Economic Tables (Tables B-X to B-XVII) IV-A Report on Housing and Establishments IV-B Housing and Establislunent Tables V-A Tables on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes V-B Ethnographic Notes on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (including reprints) VI Village Survey Monographs (25 Monographs) VI I-A Selected Crafts of Gujarat VII-B Fairs and Festivals VIIJ-A Administration Report-Enumeration Not for Sa)"'_:­ VIII-B Administration Report-Tabulation } -~( IX Atlas Volume X Special Report on Cities STATE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 17 District Census Handbooks i~ English 1 7 District Census Handbooks in Gujarati CONTENTS PAG£8 PREFACE vii-xi ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VILLAG£8 xiii-xx PART I (I) Introductory Essay • 1-40 \ (1) Location and Physical Features, (2) Administrative Set-up, (3) Local Self Government, (4) Population, (5) Housing, (6) Agriculture, (7) Livestock, (8) Irrigati~n, (9) Co-operation, (10) Economic Activity, (11) Industries Power and Mining, (12) Transport and Communications, (13) Medical and Public Health, (14) Labour and Social Welfare, (IS) Price Trends, (16) Community Development, (17) Five years Plans (18) Import~t Place Names (il) GaZetteer of Place NaJD.es 41-56 PARTD (I) Census Tables A-GENERAL POPULATION TABLES NOTE 3-5 TABLE A-I ,AJ:ea, Houses and Population 6 ApPENDIX I 19S1 Territorial units constituting the present set-up of district and each taluka/mahal 7 SUB-APPENDIX 1 i TO ApPENDIX I ~ea fot; 19S1 and 1961 for those municipal towns which have undergone changes in area 'since 1951 Census • 7 SUB-APPENDIX 2 TO APPENDIX I Disttict/Taluka/Mahal showing 1951 population according to territorial jurisdiction in 1951 changes in area and the populations involved in those changes • 7 .> APPENDIX II Nuni&er of Villages with a population of 5,000 and over and towns with a popUlation under 5,000 8 APPENDIX III Houseless and Institutional Population 8 TABLE A-III Villages classified by population 9 TABLE A-IV Towns and Town-groups classified by population in 1961 with variation since 1941 10-11 APPENDIX I New Towns added in 1961 and Towns In 19S1 declassified in 1961 II NOTE A-Particulars of New Towns added in 1961 12 B-Particulars of 1951 Census Towns declassified in 1961 12 SPEQIA.L ApPENDIX Towns with their area and jurisdiction 12 B (i)-GENERAL ECONOMIC TABLES Nom 13-19 TABLE B-1 Workers and Non-workers classified by sex and broad age-groups 20 TABLE B-I1I PART A Industrial classification of Workers and Non-workers by educational levels in Urban areas only 21 PART B Industrial classification of Workers and Non-workers by educational levels in Rural areas only 22-23 TABLE B-IV PART A Industrial classification by sex and class of worker of persons at work at Household Industry 24-26 PART B Industrial classification by sex and class of worker of persons at work in non-household industry, trade, business, profession or service • 27-31 PART C Industrial classification by sex and divisions, major groups and minor groups of persons at work other than cultivation 32-41 ApPENDIX 42-43 PAGES TABLE B-V Occupational classification by sex of persons at work other than cultivation 44-64 APPENDIX 65-66 AmmxwtB Appropriate Industrial Categories of Occupational Families 67 TABL8 B-VII PART A Persons working principally (i) as Cultivators (ii) as Agricultural labourers or (iii) at Household Industry classified by sex and by Secondary work (i) at Household Industry (ii) as Cultivator or (iii) as Agricultural labourer 68-70 APPENDIX • 70 TABLE B-VII PART B Industrial classification by sex of persons working in non-household industriy, trade, business, •profession or service who are also engaged in household industry 71-79 TABLE B-VIII PAllT A Persons unemployed aged 15 and above by sex, broad age-groups and educational levels in Urban areas only 80-81 PAllTB Persons unemployed aged 15 and above by sex and educational levels in Rural areas only 80-81 TABLE B-IX Persons not at work classified by sex, broad age-groups and type of activity 82-85 B (ii)-HOUSEHOLD ECONOMIC TABLES TABLE B-X Sample Households (i) engaged neither in cultivation nor household industry, (ii) engaged either in cultivation or household industry but not in both and (iii) engaged both in cultivation and household ihdustry for all areas 86 TABLE B-XI Sample Households engaged in cultivation classified by interest in land and size of land cultivated in Rural and Urban areas separately 86-87 TABLE B-XlI Sample Households engaged in cultivation only classified by size of land cultivated and number of family workers and hired workers in Rural and Urban areas separately 88-93 TABLB B-XVI Sample Principal household industry classified by period of working and total number of workers engaged in household industry in all areas 94-91 APPENDIX 98 TABLE B-XVII Sample Households classified by {i) Number of male and female members by size of Household and (ii) Engagement(a) Neither in cultivation nor in industry (b) in household industry only and (c) in cultivation sub-classified by size of land cultivated 99 C-SOCIAL AND CULTURAL TABLES NOTE • 101-102 TABu. 0-1 Composition of Sample Households by relationship to head of family classified by size of land cultivated 103 TABLE C-II Age and Marital Status • 104-107 TABLE C-II1 PAllT A Age, Sex and Education in all areas \. 10B-109 PAllT B Age, Sex and Education in Urban areas only 1OB-109 TABLE Q.IV Single Year 'Age Returns llO TABlA Q.V Mother Tongue (Alphabetical order) ., 111-113 TABU 0-VII Religion • • • 114 TABLE O-VIII SOHEDULBD CAsTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBEB PAllT A Classiafication by Literacy and Industrial Category 'of Workers and Non-workers among Scheduled Castes 115 PAllT B Classification by Literacy and Indl,lStrial Category of Workers and Non-workers among ScheduledATribes • 1 116 iv PAGES E-HOUSING TABLES NOTE • 117-119 TABLE E·} Census Houses and the uses to which th~y are put 120 TABLE E-Il Tenure Status of Sample households living i~ census houses used wholly or partly as dwelling • 121-122 TABLE E-IV Distribution of Sample households living in' census houses used wholly or partly as dwelling by predominant material of wall and predominant material of roof 123 TABLE R-V Sample households classified by number of members and by number of rooms occupied 124 SCT-SPECIAL TABLES FOR SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES NOTE 125 TABLE SCT-I PART A 'Industrial classification of persons at work and non-workers by sex for Scheduled Castes 126-129 PART B Industrial classification of persons at work and non-workers by sex for Scheduled Tribes 130-133 STATEMENT A-PopuLATION OF SCHEDULED CASTBS 134 STATEMENT B-POPuf..ATION OF SCHEDULED TRmES 134 VILLAGE-WISE LIsT OF. INDUSTJUAL ESTABLISHMENTS 135-140 ANNE:xuRE-STAI'W>~ INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION • 141-143 LIsT OF RURAL CRAFTS AND NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOY£!) IN PRODuanON • 145-173 (if) Omclal StadstiC8 175-217 . (A detailed list of tables on Official Statistics is given at page 176) PARTm Village Directory NOTE 3 AInmDABAD CITY T ALUKA • 5-109 VIRAMGAM TALUKA • 111-125 DASKR.OI TALUKA • 127-137 DEHGAM TALUKA • 139-149 SAMANO MAHAL • 151-157 DHOLKA TALUKA • 159-171 DHANDHUKA TALUKA • 173-185 MAPS DllITRICT MAp FRONTISPIECB FAIRS FACING PAGB 213 5 TALUKA AHMEDABAD CITY • I' •• TALUKA VIRAMGAM ., ., III TALUKA DASKR.OI ,. •• 127 TALUKA DEHGAM ., 139 " MAHAL SAMANO .. .. 151 159 TALUKA DHOLKA ,. " 172 TALUKA DHANDHUKA .. " v PREFACE Before 1951, only the figures of population tables as possible to enhance its usefulness. The of revenue villages were given in what were then result has been that the District Census Hand­ called 'Village Handbooks'. But the decision to book of 1961 differs widely in the matter of bring out the District Census Handbooks giving <1ontent and coverage from that published after extracts from all the important census tables for tbe Census of 1951 and contains a number of every district of the State was taken for the first new features, exa:r:nined below. time in 1951. ,In addition to the census tables, the minimum information given in the Primary The District Census Handbook has been Census Abstract related to the area of the village, sub-divided into three parts, viz., :- number of houses', and househo1ds, total Popu­ PART I-THE DISTRICT lation, houseless and institutional population, literates, and agricultural and non-agricultural (i) Introductory Essay classes distributed u~der 8 main livelihood classes. Census statistics giVen in the Primary Census (ii) Brief Gazetteer of Place Names Abstract were further: supplemented by the addi­ tion of useful administrative information on such PART II-STATISTICS items as post offices,', railway stations, distance of (i) Census Tables bazzar from village, pr~mary schools, village pan­ chayats, co-operative ~ciety, etc.