CENTRAL INDIA STATES CENSUS SERIES '193"'1 VOL-IJl\£E VII BHOPA-I~ STATE PART 1-Report PART II-Tables COMPILED BY C. S. VENKATACHAR. Of the Indian Civil Service Superint:endent: of Census Operat:ions in Cent:ral India AND M. MAH MOOD ALI KHAN, Cen,'us Officer, Bhopal State. LUCKNOW: Printed by K. D. Seth at the Newul Kishore Press. 1933. J~~- --------- c .,r"~ ~ __---------~+_------ ~~ -~~----4-------r ,_,~Qj / I BHOPAL ',1P" " ! ~ \-.~.-., .... .I- "'. "Q.. ' I SCALE~IINCH"10 MILES. .~ ~ NAZIRABAD ~ I 0 O, 1t, ~ • "', lliilii8.IIiiIi~ii·1ili11iiIi~ 1iiliif _iiii--;;;;liiiiiiii~l MlLF.8. ;: ( < t ~ ~/,w~ 7. ~ SHERPURA ._) IADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS. ~ '1' \./) I I ~ S I.AL~RY!_' I o ; I. NIZAMAT·!- MASHRIQ. CI;'" BERASIA,' )2. _NIZ_AMAT1M_AG_'H_ll_m. ~ l1; ....... '\ r.j , HEAl) QUARTERS OF TEHSILS ~ 4 ...... fr I" , I ARE UNIJERLINED. ~ Ji/tfIlD : ,I I . i ·JAGIR TEHS)!. HUD QUARTERS. • Po.Il£ II \ ~ ~1 I 30 _r·_A~!l_~_L1N_En_\N_D_()l''J_·EIJ::.:...-+---- ~~~ .-_JO!t\·1~Jt·.=- ...--'.iJI,U' o I ~, I, I r"\ ,ltlMNER \) o o I ~ I REFERENCES. {RAISEN' GHAIRATGA~J. SHAHGUNJ. SULTANPORE, I RAILWAY ---------- ,.1 BARJ. BEGAMGANJ. DEWANGUNJ. SILWANl i META,~II.ED R~~~N~~~P-L~~E:~:'_-'+ \-' .BARELl. GOHARGANJ. UDAIPURA. PIKLON. 22 II TEHSIL BOUNDIlY· ----- ·· ........ ·1· -------+---·s--· - {SEHORE. NASRULLAHGANJ HUZUR.--DORAHA, 00 I 0 2 ASHTA. MARDANPORE. BERASIA. JAWAR, I, I H • ICHHAWAR, ~~~~~-------------------71o-.-------------------7~1~30~-----------------~7A~o~o--~----~~~~~~»~300----------------~I • PRESS,UJCKNOW. 1 Drawn under the guidance of M. A. Khan, Census officer by M. Jafar Husain, Overseer . TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I.-REPORT. PAG~. Introduction 1 Chapter I. Distribution and Movement of the PopUlation 1-14 .. Il. Population of City, Towns and Villages ,.; . 15-22 Ill. Birth-place and Migration " >/3-30 IV. Age 31-4i! V. Sex 43-49 VI. Ci vii C::Ondition 50-61 VII. Infirmities 62-68 VIII. Occupation 69-91 IX. Literacy 92-]00 X. Language 101-109 XI. Religion 110-112 XII. Caste 1]3-118 LIST OF l\'IAPS & DIAGRAMS. 1. l\Iap of the State FRONTISPIECE. 1 0;1. Diagram showing the growth of the population of Bhopal State 1881-1931 12 3. Diagram showing the denSity of population in Bhopal State and in ot her districts and States. 13 4_ Diagram showing the increase or decrease per cent in the population of the ~izamats and the Tahsils of Bhopal State during the inter-censal period 1921-19111. U. 5. Diagram showing percentage variation in urban and rural population 'ill 6. The urban popUlation per 1,000 'il2 1. The rural population per 1,0(,)0 22 8. Diagram showing the distribution by quinquennial age-periods of 10,000 of each sex, Bhopal State, 1931. 4 I 9. Age distribution of 10,000 of each sex in Bhopal State 42 10. Diagrams showing the numbers of females per 1,000 males by main age-periods, ]931... 45 1 I. Diagram showing the proportion per mille who are unmarried, married and widowed at each age-period. 53 12. Distribution of 1,000 of each sex in each main religion by Civil Condition 54 13. Distribution of I,OUO of each sex in certain selected castes, ]931 55 u. Diagram showing the number of Insane per 100,000 of each age·period 64- 15. Diagram showing the number of Deaf-mutes per 100.000 of each age-period 64 16. Diagram showing the number of Blind per 100,000 of each age-period Ii.'> 11. Diagram showing the number of Leper per 100,001;) of each age-period 65 18. Diagram showing the distribution of the working population, 1931, by occupation 80 19. Diagram showing the number of persons in I,UOO in the Administrative Divisions who are literate. 96 20. Diagram showing the number of literates per mille in each main religion 96 2L Distribution of the whole population of the Bhopal State, 1931, by ca~tes 112 INTRODUCTION. 1. The Census of 1931 was the sixth enumeration of the population Previous Oensuses of the Bhopal State. The dates on which these censuSes were taken and the Schedule. 1881 17th February. are noted in the margin. In the first two censuses 189126th" a modified schedule was used, but since 1901 the 1901 1st March. 1911 lOth March. British India Schedule has been fully adopted. The 1921 18th March. schedule prescribed for this Census contained 18 1931 26th February. columns instead of 16 columns in the previous censuses. The two additional columns were meant for the entry of organised industry and bi-lingualism. 2. The arrangements for taking the Census generally followed Preparatory the lines adopted in 1921, and the detailed prucedure is described in arrangements. the:: Provincial Census Code. Munshi Muhammad Mumtaz Ali Khan who had previously worked as Census Officer was again appointed to that post and Munshi Mahmud Ali Khan as his Assistant. _- The first step tsken in connection with the Census was the preparation of the General Village Register containing a complete list of villages and hamlets in the State with the approximate number of houses and persons available for Census work in each place. The preparation of this important document was rather delayed on this occasion, as the services of Patwaris could Dot be made available in the beginning. It should be undertaken as early as possible, in the next Census. The State Census Officer with selected Charge Superintendents attended the Census Training class at Indore, in the first week of July 1930. After receiving practical training in Census work he returned to the State and organised the training of the remaining Census staff of the State. The whole State was for Census purposes divided into 40 Charges, 808 Circles '" ,893 Blocks. The Block which was the smallest Census unit consis"tea of a group of 40-50 houses and was placed in the charge of an Enumerator. 10 to 15 Blocks made up a Circle under a Supervisor and each Tal~;:,)l constituted a Census Charge under the Charge Superintendent who was generally the Tahsildar or his Assistant. The Railway areas were censused under the direction of the State Census Officer, the Railway authorities supplying the required staff. The small area occupied by the Agency Headquarters was in the direct charge of the Head Clerk of the Agency Office who supplied the provisional totals to the State Census Officer. The first step directly ii connected with the Census was House-numbering which consisted in painting the Census numbers of Houses. Blocks and Circles on each house. The numbers ran in a continuous series throughout the village including its h8mlets. if any. Concurrently with House-numbering the HoU!,e-Lists giving the description of the house and the name of the head rnelnber of the faullly livlOg in it were written up. Extracts from these lists relating to each Block formed the Block Lists of the Enume rators. This stage of the work was started about t.he n"liddle of October and cOlnpleted about the llliddle of Novc::mber 1930. Preliminary 3. After the House-numbering had been corupleted and checked Enumeration. and the enumeration staff fully trained and their knowledge tested. the preliulinary enumeration was started in rural areas in the beginning of January 1931. and in urban places a few days later. It was finished every~here by the 1st of February. During the period that this preliminary record was being prepared and thereafter till the date of the Fina.l Census. it wa.s completely checked by the Supervisors and tested by the different Census Officials. The Final Census. 4. The final Enumeration or the Census proper consisted in revising the record of the Preliminary Euurueration so as to be in accordance with the conditions existing between the hours of sunset and Inidnight on the 26th of February 1931. All entries for the persons who had gone away or died were scored out while fresh entries were made for any new arrivals or new-born children. The final Census was started at 7 p. m. and cornpleted at midnight. No part of the State was treated as non-synchronous for Census purposes nor were there any fairs to require special arrangements. All Hats or weekly mar­ kets that fell on the Census day had been postponed by order of the Bhopal Government. The enumeration of the passengers in running trains was taken early in the morning following the Census night. For this purpose trains were stopped at the following Railway Stations within the territory of the State :- Barkhera, Misrod and Obaidullaganj. Previsional Totals. 5. A regular scheme had been previously drawn up for the collection and expeditious transmission of the Provincial totals in the different parts of the State. On the morning of the 27th February 1931 the Enumerators of the various Blocks met their respective Supervisors with their Enumeration Books at a previously appointed place and prepared the first totals of occupied houses. persons, males and females for their Blocks in the manner prescribed in the Code. The Supervisors checked these and combined the Block totals into Circle totals and forwarded them through the quickest route to their respective Charge Superintendents, who in their turn after checking the Circle Summaries compiled Charge totals and communicated the:rn to the Census Officer at the Headquarters. From the Charge totals the Census Officer compiled the total for the State as a whole and telegraphed it to the Census Commissioner for India at Delhi, and the Superintendent of Census Operations in Central India at Indore. These first totals were received at Indore at 14·4 on the 2nd March 1931 and showed the population of the State to be 732,104- After the detailed processes of abstraction and tabulation the final figures arrived at were 729.955 which showed a difference of -2.149 or nearly ·s per cent which is insignificant for the State as a whole and the entire State agency deserves to be congratulated on the success of the operations.