, ; : \ ,r , ! '\ ' ,.. c· tl'l'rlWDtTOTJON- A-The Di.triot i-III B-AnaJysia of the Stati.tiOB iii-Ii C-Explanatory notes on the Statistics xi-xiii PART I-DISTRICT CENSUS TABLES A-'.}'I!:N'ER.A.L POPULATION TABLES-- _ A-I _ Are.. , Houses Bnd Population 3 A·II Variation in Population during Fifty y"...... 3 A-III Towns and Villages Classified by Population 4-5 A-Tv Towns CI"""ifled by Population with Variations since 1901 6-8 JV Towns ..'ranged Territorially with Population by Livelihood C1asse. 9 E AT.". and Populotion of Di.triot and TollSil. by Livelihood ChwseB 10-11 B-EooNollUo TA1ILES- B-! Llvalihood OIasses and Sub,olasses 12-17 B-II Sooondary ~ean" of LiveHhood .': 18-33 B-III Employers, Employees and Indepe';dent Workers in Industrie~ and Services by Divisions and Snb-divisions '_ 34-62 B-IV Unemployment by Livelihood Classes 63-64 .~". Index or Non,agrioultural Oooupations 65-69 \, O-HOtTSEltOLD AND AGE (SA>C'LB) TA1ILBS- 0-1 Household (Size and Composition) 70-71 O-II Livelihood Olasses by Age-groups 72-79 O-III Age";"d Civil Condition 80-83 C-IV Age and Liter...,y 84-87 C-V Single Year Age Returns __ 88-95 l>-Soor.u. AND CUW!UBAL T"'-BLES- - - } Languages <il Mother Tongue 96-91· • <iiI Bilingualism 98-101 n-H Religion r_ 102-103 D-HI Soheduled Castes 102-103, n-IV Migrants •• ' 104-107 nov (i) Displaoed persons by year of arriva11n India 108-109 (ii) Displa.ced pe':"'ns by Livelihood Cl_ tiO-111 n-VI Non-Indian NatIonals _O., 1I0-1! I n-VII Livelihood Olasseo hy EduoationalSt.andardo 112-117 PART II-VILLAGE, TOWN, PARGANA AND THANA STATISTICS I Primary Census Abstraot 120-191 2 P"rgana and Than&-wi1!6 Population 192-193 PART m-MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS I Vltol Statlatioa 196-199 2 Agricultural Ststlatlos-(i) Rainfall •• '_:J 200-201 (iiI Area 88 ol ....ifled with detaila of area under cUltivation 202-205 (iii) Cropped Area 206-221 (iv) Irrigated A ..... 222-225 , Live.Stook, Agrioultural Machinery and Imploments 226-229 .. LI.~ o( PrimM)' Sohool. 230-23' FOREWORD Several States, including Utta,r _Pradesh, have been publishing village statistics by distr~cts at each census. In 1941 they were published in U. P. under the' title' . "District Census Statistics" with a separate volume for each district. in the 1951 ' . census, when the tabulation has been more elaborate than ever in view of the require .. ment~ of the country, the district .. wis~ volume has been expanded into a "District Census Handbook", which now contains the District Census Tables (furnishing data ~ith break ... up for census tracts withiV the district), the District Index or'Non ... agricultural Occupations, ag~ic~ltural statistics from 1901 ... 02 to 1950"51 and other miscellaneous statistics in addition to the usual village population statistics. The village populati6n' statistics also are given in an elaborate form giving the division "of the population among eight livelihood classes and other details. 2. It may be added here that aseparate set of district ... wise volumes giving only population figures of rural areas bt villages and of urban areas by wards and moh~lla:s' and entitled "District Populatioiv Statistics" has already been published. This separate series ~as necessitated by the urgent requirements. of the U. P; Government for elections to local bodies. The printing of the District Census Handb~oks involves colossal work and is bound to take some time. RAJESHWARI PRASAD, I.A.S., RAMPUR: Superintendent, Census Operations, Septemher I, 1954. Uttar Pradesh. INTRUDUCTION A-THE DIS'X'RlO'l' 1. Meerut is sit.uated in the upperl Doab.of ~ rivers Ganga. and Yamuna. It is' . bounded on tho north by tho distriot of Muzaffa.,nagar and on tho south by Bulandshllhr. On the oast the boundary throughout is formed by the Ganga whioh sepnratc8 it from tho districts of Dijnor and Moradabad. Alla\ong the western boundary flows the Yamuna, which separates this district from Delhi and East Punjab. The district has a total area, according to the figures of 1951, of 2,323 squa.re miles. Its population in 1951 was 22'81 lakhs, the socond biggcst among the districts of the State. It hll.8 (} tahsils, 17 parganas and 23 thanas. '. 2. In its general aspect the district presents the appearance of a level alluvial Jllain ,Topography . without any hills or eminences of any magnitude. The general direction of the drainage is from north to sonth, and the slope is very graduo.l throughout. There is no uneven ground save in tho ravines or khadar8 that 0.1'0 gencro.l1y found on tho edge of tho river' valloys. , . It may be divided into several distinct tracts; each with well-marked physico.l charac­ teristics of its own. These are the north-western tract, the central depression, the"illlostern tract and the khadarlands of the Ganga and Yamuna.. The first of these, the north-­ west{)rn trn.ct, embmces the wholo of the J3aghpat tehsil, the' greater part of So.rdhana and portions of Meerut and Ghaziabad.: : This tract is the most fertile portion of the; entire area of Meerut, and consists of a' fine black loamy soil. 'This level plain is only broken by tho valleys of the Rindan and ita tributaries .. Towards tho west it sinks into tho klUldar of the Yamuna, while on the south the good soil of the upland narrows to a point and terminates in the. wide expanse of low-lying land or khadar between the Hindan and the Yamuna. Between the Yamuna and the Hindan there are two small streams which drain the north central portion of the upland tract known (IS the Krishani and Banganga.. Their banks are broken by severo.l smILll ravines and these rivers are quite useless except drainage eho.nnels .. The' river Yamuna exercises a large influence on the Baghpat tehsil and all the land west of the Rindan. The bed of the river lies very low and irrigation from it is impracticable. Only in the south the absence of the high bank results in floods which satmo.to a great portion of pargana Loni in Ghaziabad tchsil. Its khadar is much wider in the south than in the north. Here the uplan:ls terminate in a sandy fringe of ravines and undulat.ing soil in which nothing will grow except an inferior kind of thatching grass. In the south the khadar sinks into a low-lying tract with a number of depressions which are. nearly always covered with water. This lower Hadar is also subject to floods. The Rindan · flows through the eastern half of the north-west<lrn tmct. Ita waters are used for irri- · gating the rabi crops and melons'. U.s khadar which joins the khadar of the Yamuna in the south is affected by tho saline efflorescence or reh. East of tho Hindan watemhed is the central depression whioh runs from north to south. It includes a. part of tehsil Sardhana, the centre of 'tehsil Meerut and the east of pargana Jalalabad and the greater portion of pargana Dasnn. of tehsil Ghaziabad. Tho distingllishing feature of this tract, is the want of proper drainage. There are artificial. drains but even then water does not escape rapidly and though the soil is generally good, " there is a. tendency to saturation and damage in unusually wet years. In places thero is a. tendency to the formation of reh.· . T1Hnmstern \lpll1.nds extend from the central depression to the Tl\.vines above the G:1nga. khadar. This tract mainly comprises of greater portions of tahsils Mawana and Hapur. It is drained by the Kali nadi nnd its affluent.!!. Its chief charaeteristio is the existence of ·:·lines of bhur or sand. The soil is not so rich as in the north-western tract . \ The eastern most tract is the low khada~ lnnd of the Ga.nga valley in tehsils Mawana '. and Rapur. Many parts of it are capable of cuIt.ivation, but it is chiefly covered with ;:grass jungle.' 'Some of it hus been reclo.imed for coloniza.tion. This khadar has many '; wandering depressions and. water-courses generally connecting with the . main stream ;} tIle chief of these .being the Burh Ganga which is an old beel of the Ganga. But it is ~ J fairly' ff1iscd on the whole, with Boils that nrc poor nrtd light. 'rho only pn.rtOl' of tho diS­ ,i;trict which are liable to flood are the Ganga. khadar, besIdes the villages in the low-lying ": tra.cts of pargana Loni in tahsil Gha.ziaba.d and the south of Baghpat near the Yamunn. · ~"",j, . 3. As regards. the Boils,' the district is one of the best in the State. On the wholo Solis .,it is 11 trnot. of oxtraorclinllrily rich and lIniform Boil, fully irrigated nnd sp)[ln(liclly cultim- ted. It lWR bCl'n seen in tho previolls paragraph that. the district iSwfur tho most. part, n. 'level upland loam, ending in sandy ridges or ravines above the Ganga JowJnnd on tho cast and the Yamuna lowland· on the west, but with bll7lr ridges flanking the Kali nadi and the Hindan nnd wit.h a large strip of low-lying hard soil running through the c~ntre. But for ~uch snmll (t]'('nR which are affected -by natlli'l\l~cfcots find fall bolow t.he ,r;:en())"1101 higll lever of exccllenco, tho averngo main 80il is of the very higoat quality, Imd is nut llurpllRsetl in natural fertility by Ulat of Emy.