CENSUS OF IN·DIA 1971 SERJES 17 PUNJAB PART fX-A ADMIN'tSTRATIVE ATLAS P. L. SONDHI H. s. KWATRA Of the Indian Administrative Service Of the Punjab Civil Service EX-OFFICIO DIRECTOR OF DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENSUS OPERATIONS, PUNJAB CENS{]S OPERATIONSt PUNJAB CENSUS OF INDIA 1971 A-ceNTRAL GOVllRNMllNT PuBacATIONs The 1971 Census Reports on Punjab will bear uniformly Series No. 17 and will be published in the following Parts :_ PART I-A General Report PARTI-B General Report (Detailed analysis of 'the Demogra.phic, Social, Cultura.l and Migration Patterns) PARTI-C Subsidiary Tables PART II-A General Population Tables PART II-A General Population Tables (Standard Urban Areas) Supplement PARTll-B Economic Tables (Present Book) PARTll-C(i) } and Distribution of Population by Religion and Scheduled_Castes pARTV-A PART II-C(ii) Social and Cultural Tables (fable C-I to C-VI) and Fertility Tables PARTll-D Migration Tables PART ill Establishment Report and Tables PART IV Housing Report and Tables PARTV-B Ethnographic notes on Scheduled castes alMl Scheduled Tribes PART VI-A Town Directory PARTVI-B Special Survey Reports on selected Towns PARTVI-C Survey Reports on selected Villages PARTVllI-A Administration Report-Enumeration (for official use oruy) PARTVIII-B Administration Report-Tabulation (for official use only) PART IX Census Atlas PART IX-A Administrative Atlas B-Sl'ATB GOVERNMENT PuBUCATIONS PART X District Census Handbook for each district in three Parts :­ PART A-Village and Town Directory PART B-Village and Townwise Primary Census Abstracts PART C-Analytical Report, Administration Statistics and District Census Tables NOTE :- Parts A and B of the District Census Handbook have been printed in one Volume. FOREWORD In order to ensure complete coverage at a population count, the Census Organisation obtains or prepares up-fo-date detailed maps of all administrative units in the country on the eve of a census. Though in several parts of the country maps of the Districts, Tahsils, Police Stations, etc., are available with the State Revenue or Survey authorities, often times, they required to be brought up-to-date and they also varied greatly in scale. One also found it difficult to secure a complete or compact set of all these maps from State authorities. The Census Organisation took upon itself the task of up-dating of the administrative maps and the standardization of scales essentially to meet its own requirements of coverage at the census and analysis of data. Standardization of symbols was also attempted to depict certain features such as the State rdistrict I tahsil boundaries, administrative headquarters, national and state highways and other roads, markets and mandis, post and telegraph offices, travellers' bunga­ Jows, hospitals, .etc. All urban centres and larger villages were depicted by names in the dis­ trict maps, and in the tahsil maps the location of every village by dots proportionate to the popu­ lation size and the distinctive location code number of each village marked. In each of the District Census Handbooks (there are 356 districts in the country) the district map as well as the tahsil maps will be printed. While these administrative maps, prepared with great amount of care and effort, served the pHposes of the census extremely well, the 1971 Census Organisation felt that these would be invaluable for many an administrative purpose and for planning and also to the scholars who might like to utilize these maps for various studies. Therefore, it was decided, after full consideration at the all-India Census Conferences of Courtallam (1970) and Pahalgam (1971) to publish all the district and tahsil maps of each State together in a compact and handy volume entitled "Administrative Atlas". Though this Atlas is basically a compilation of administrative maps giving the set up as on the census date, Le., 1st April, 1971, it has been enriched by adding inset maps, wherever necessary, showing the changes in the boundaries during the decade 1961-71. Besides, the Atlas also contains a few introductory State maps showing certain basic characteristics as the physiography, density of population, dis .. tribution of towns and the distribution of rural population. A few schematic urban maps are also added to give the land-use patterns in the typical urban areas of the State. In order to make the Atlas somewhat self-contained statistical statements are also addded giving data on the area, population size, growth rate, sex and age structure, lite_' racy, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe population and religion. The Census Organisation, as is well-known, is one of the largest producers of maps in the country. Apart from the Administrative Atlas, the 1971 Census publication programme envisages the production of separate Census Atlases which will depict the physiographic, demo­ graphic, economic, social and cultural characteristics of each State as derived from the Census as well as other sources of data. I wish to place.pD record my appreciation of the dedicated services of Dr. B. K. Roy, the Map Officer of the Registrar General's Office and all· his collegues in the Map Unit and also of all the State Directors of Census Operations and the staff of their Map Units who have all worked together...as a team and have succeeded in the production of this Administrative Atlas which I hope will serve the needs of the administrator, the planner and the scholar alike. A. CHANDRA SEKHAR New Delhi, Registrar Genital & September 26, 1972. Census Commissioner, India iii-iv PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Census of India has a long tradition of providing a wealth of demographic statistics alongwith brilliant reports supported and substantiated by rich variety of maps and diagrams. Prior to the 1961 Census, maps and diagrams were employed to illustrate the spatial patterns of various population charac­ teristics at national or state levels. At the 1961 Census, it was realized that administrative maps showing each tahsil in a district and every village in the tahsil should also be incorporated in the district census handbooks. Though highly beneficial in many regards, such an arrangement suffered from the drawback, that these administrative maps were spread over different district census books of a state. It was, there­ fore, rightly decided at the 1971 Census that all these administrative maps of a state must be compiled into one volume known as Administrative Atlas. This Volume thus incorporates maps showing administra­ tive boundaries down to the village level, various amenities-educational, medical, communication, etc.­ available in the area as also various physiographic and demographic features of the districts. Thus, the Administrative Atlas, the first of its kind in the census history, is a useful tool to an administrator, planner, scholar and other (lata users. The present volume includes 69 maps in all. Six maps cover the Iocational, physiographic and demo­ graphic aspects of the state as a whole. Eleven district maps protray population of towns, location of villages with atleast 5,000 persons and position of some other villages with prominent educational, medi­ cal and transportational facilities. Forty-two maps for individual tahsils show village boundaries along­ with location code numbers and their size class of population. The remaining ten maps concentrate on schematic view of some selected towns. To make this volume more useful, basic statistics have been placed on the facing page of each district and tahsil map. The preparation of this Administrative Atlas involved a high degree of technical skill and planning for which I am grateful to Shri Madhav Shyam, Cartographer, who was closely assisted by Sarvshri Surinderjit Singh. Geographer; Jiwan Singh. Artist; Gurbachan Singh. Economic Investigator; Kulbir Singh, Draughtsman and Sham Sunder, Assistant Compiler. It is my pleasant duty to acknowledge the creative co-operation of all these persons. For overall supervision and gu,idance, acknowledgements are due to Shri J. C. Kalra, the then Assistant Director and Shri Gurmit Singh IGill, Tabulation Officer. My predecessor, Shri H. S. Kwatra of the Punjab Civil Service was in over-all charge of the preparae tion of this Volume till I took over from him on 1-3-1977. I record my gratefulness for the able guidance provided by him in the execution of this Volume which was actually completed during his tenure. " I am deeply indebted to Dr. B. K. Roy, Assistant Registrar (Map) in the Office of Registrar General, India, New Delhi who was very kind in providing guidelines for the entire work. We are also greatly indebted to Shri R.S. Nilkar, Manager; Government of India Press, Simla, for the high quality of printing of this Volume. P.C. SHARMA Deputy Director ~ePtember 26, 1978 v-vi CONTENTS Pages I~'OREWORD iii PREFACE '( v INTRODUCTION 1-8 MAPS (i) Position of Punjab in India (ii) Physiography (iii) Distribution of Population, 1971 (iv) Density of Population, 1971 (v) Urban centres by size of population, 1971 (vi) Administrative Divisions, 1971 (vi'i,) Schematic Ma.ps of Ten Urban Centres DISTRICT GURDARPUR 9-29 Basic Census Statistics District Map Names of Villages, Census Statistics and 1\faps of Tabsila DISTRICT AMRITSAR Basic Census Statistics District Map Names of Villages, CeU3US Sbatistics and Maps of Tahsils DISTRICT FEROZPUR 49-72 Basic Census Statistics District Map Names of Villages, Census Statistics and Maps of Tahslls DISTRICT LUDHIANA 73-88 Basic Census Rtatistics District Map Names of Villages, Census Statistics and Maps