CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 PUNJAB DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK No. 15 KAPUR THALA DISTRICT R. L.ANAND Superintendent of Census Operations, Punjab, HarYana, and Union Territory of Chandigarh Published by the Oovernmen~ of Punjab 1967 Price Rs. 18.75 ' ." o ... ..... .. ... PI •H • r.... ~~., .. " " 1('''''''' ••••••( ... " ., " , "" ! '~'\, • / :".: ".._., ,. \' ........ _.,.-.~., 1. .... ( ,.. ~"~:..,.... ~'. : \ .... j ,.". ..... ) '"' . ,J "'" I " '"tt •,. ') ~ > > III III ') II: I- bI ..... III 2 0 '"oJ oJ 2 lII: I I I jj 0 .. @O z • a 0 ;) I- 1/1 Q. 1/1 U a: III )- II: :::I 11.1 ~ 0 0 e t- >:- II: l-'" 0 a iJ f- a: II: e .J 1/1 e II: e 1&1 0 e z :::I :::I II. IIJ z II: 0 0 a a III :::I e U 0 0 a: U 0 e I- UI 0 II: e Z m '"~ II: III Z 0 :::I 1:'" X IIJ '"0 I- e 0 '"U Z I- U It .J'" :::I U .J "IIJ 0 .J a: .J Z e 0 a: e I&. l- e III e 1/1 " l- e I- m LLI III 0 > z III :z: 0 e e a: " ~(.: Y~ a: 'II: U' Q I- :::I CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 A-CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PUBLICA nONS The publications relating to Punjaj bear Volume No. XIII, and are bound separately as follows:- General Report Part IV-A RePort on Housing and Establish­ ments Report on Vital Statistics Part IV-B Tables on Housing and Establish­ ments Part I-CO) Subsidiary Tables Part V-A Special Tables on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Trib,.., Part I -CUi) Subsidiary Ta bles Part V-B Ethnographic Notes on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Part II-A General Population Ta bles Part VI Village Survey Monographs : 44 in number, each relating to an individual village Part II-B (i) General Economic Tables (Tables Part VII-A Report on Selected Handicrafts B-I to B-IV. B-VIll and B-IX) Part II-BOi) General Economiq Tablcf! (fables Part VII-B Report and Tables on Fairs and B-V to B-VII) Festivals Part II-Cli) Social and Cultural Tables Part VIII-A Administrative Report : Enumera. tion (Not for 'sale) Part iI-C(ii) Migration Tables Part VIII-B Administrative Report : Tabula­ tion (Not for sale) Part III Household E,eonomic Tables Part IX: Socio-Economic Atlas B-PUNJAB GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 19 Volumes of District Census Handbooks~- DCH-I Hissar DCH-II Ludhiana DCH-2 Rohtak DCH-12 PeroZepur DCH-3 Gurgaon DCH-13 Amritsar DCH-4 Karna! ' DCH-14 Gurdaspur DCH-S Amoa,rl neH-iS Kapurthala DCH-6 Simla nCH-16 Bhatinda DCH-7 Kangra nCH-17 Sangrur DCH-8 Labau! & Spiti DCH-IS Patiala DCH-9 Hoshiarpur ncH-19 Mahendragarh DCR-tO Jullundur PREFACE The reports and statistical volumes pertaining to the 1961-census fall under three broad groups on the basis of territory coverage. The All-India Reports and Tables compiled in the office of the Registrar General. [udia, encompass the entire country. The reports compiled by the State Superintendents relate to individual States and Centrally Administered Territories. The third group consists of District Census Handbooks, the scope of which is limited to individual Districts, and they give information for each town and village. The Hand­ books Were compiled by the Superintendent of Census Operations, punjab, but the State Government has undertaken their publishing. The District Census Handbooks were published for the first time at the 1951-census. They proved very useful with the officers working in Community Development Blocks, Tahsils and Districts, and were consul­ ted in connection with elections, as also by students of social sciences interested in local problems. This Handbook contains the essential census data for each village and town (according to wards) in the District. Besides, some other useful information has been included in it, thus making it a self-contained book of reference for the District. The book is divided into four parts. Part I consists offour chapters. Chapter I introduces the District, giving information on its location, physical features, climate, fauna and flora, towns and places of interest, a brief history of the District and its administrative machinery. In Chapter II are discussed the use of land, main crops and irrigation, industries, trade and commerce, and communications. In Chapter III the salient features of population are discussed. Chapter IV deals with social and developmental activities, and achieve­ ments during the First and Second Five-Year Plans. In Part II are presented the statistics secured from various Government Depactments relating to rainfall, temperature, land utilisation, irrigation, area and yield of principal crops, livestock, industry, co-operation, education, printing and publishing, entertainments, medical and health, births and deaths, transport and communications, community development activities, banks and insurance, and justice. At the end appears a Table on the fairs and festivals in the District. The Tables relating to the 1961-census aTe presented in Part III. Part IV contains a Directory of Villages and Towns, showing which among them have educational institutions, hospitals and dispensaries, post and tele­ graph offices, electrification and protected water-supply; area; number of occupied residential houses and house­ holds living therein; population; persons belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes; number ofliterate and educated persons; number of workers in nine broad 'industrial categories' ; and number of non-workers. The book contains several maps. There is a map of the District showing the administrative boundaries, roads and railways, rivers and canals, and location of towns. Another map shows the distribution ofpopulatioD; the population of towns is shown by proportionate circles, and of rural areas by dots. For each Tahsil in the District two types of maps have been prepared, one showing the location of social amenities, and the second showing the boundaries ofvilIages and towns. These maps were prepared by Shri J.R. Kalia. This publication is the outcome of the joint efforts of a large number of workers and Government Departments, and grateful aCknowledgement is made of the help received fI om them. Within the Census Organisa­ tion mention needs to be made of Shri Jaswaut Singh Dilawary, Statistical Assistant, and Sarvshri Vishwa Mitter and Jaswant Lal, Asstt. Compilers, for preparing the Tables appearing in Part II, under the supervision of Shri T.P. Garg, p.e.s., Deputy Superintendent of Census Operations; and of Shri Goverdhan Dass Singla, Statistical Assistant, and Sarvshri Joginder Nath Suri and Dharam Paul Jain, Computors, for preparing the Tables appear­ ing in Parts III and IV, under the supervision of Shri Pawan Kumar, Tabulation Officer. Sarvshri Joginder Nath Sud, Dhlram Pal Jain, Ajab Lal Kakkar and Ajmer Singb helped in correcting the proofs in the press. Shri Sita Ram, p.e.s., Deputy Superintendent of Census Operations, Punjab, paid a number of visits to the Kapurtnala District, and after collecting information by personal observations and discussions with a large number of persons, produced the draft of this Handbook. My thanks are due also to Shri K.C. KUriyan, Controller of Printing & Stationery, and his Deputy, Shri Gurpartap Singh, for their personal attention in the printing of the book. R. L. ANAND Superintendent of Census Operations, CHANDIGARH PWljab, Haryana, and Union Territory April 1 0, 1967 of Chandi,garh CONTENTS PAOS PREFACE iii PART I-INTRODUCTION TO THE DISTRICT 1-35 Chapter I - Introduction 3 Chapter 11- Economy 11 Chapter III_l'opulation 19 Chapter IV-Social and Developmental Activities 27 PART II-DEPARTMENTAL STATISTICS 37-97 Explanatory Note 41 Tables 46 PART IIL-CENSUS TABLES 99-236 Explanatory Note 104 Tables 131 PART IV-DIRECTORY OF VILLAGES AND TOWNS 23i-285 Explanatory Note 238 Directory 240 Alphabetical List of Villages 277 MAPS Kapurthala District : Tahsil boundaries, Towns, Roa.ds, Railways, Rivers and Canals frontispiece Kapurthala District ! Distribution of Population, 1961 facing page 19 Location of Schools, Dispensaries and Post 016ces 1. Kapurthala Tahsil 2. Phagwara Tahsil facing page 27 Bounda.ries o!Villages ; Kapurthala Tahsil facing page 279 Pbagwara Tahsil facing page 285 PART I INTRODUCTION TO THE DISTRICT CHAFfER 1 INTRODUCTION Formerly a princely State, the Kapurthala District is now one of the nine Districts forming Jullup.. dur Division. It lies in Bist Doab which is the name given to the territory lying between the Sutlej and the Beas. This is the only district in the State which is split in two parts some 20 miles apart~ the Kapurthala Tahsil and the Phagwara Tahsil. In between the two tahsils lies the territory of lullundur District. It is a tiny District' consisting of 643 square miles lived in by 343,778 souls on the 1st Marc~, 1961. There are 698 villages in the District (inclusive of the un-inhabited ones) and four towns, .. namely. Dhilwan, Kapurthala, Sultanpur and Phagwara. Name, location and boulldaries.-The District takes its name from Kapurthala town which is its headquarters and was formerly the capital of the princely State. The town is said to have been foundee:} in the early part of the 11 th century in the time of Sultan Mahmood of Ghazni by Rana Kapur, a scion of the ruling Rajput House of Jessalmir. The District lies between 31 °-07'-05" and 31 °_39'-10" north latitude, and 74°-57'-45" and 75°-54-40" east longitude. Its main.part, the Kapurthala Tahsil, is 45 miles long and its breadth vary from 7 to 20 miles at different places. In the north it is bounded by the Districts of Hoshiarpur, Gurda!' pur and Amritsar, in the west by the river Keas and District Amritsar, in the south by the river Sutiej and Julundur and Ferozepur Districts, and in the east by lullundur and Hoshiarpur Districts.