CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 VOLUME I INDIA PART II·A (ii) UNION PIuMAltY CENSUS ABSTRACTS CONTENTS Non .. UNION PiuMAay CENSUS ABsTRACTS .. 1-142 ApPINDIX (1) Primal)' Census Abitracta- Town Groups and Towns with ,Parta 143-167 (ll) Calcutta Industrial RelioD .. 168-181 . -. (iii) Madras Industrial Retion .. .. 182-185.. 1961 CENSUS UNION PRIMARY <;ENSUS ABSTRACTS, Owing to the volume ()f the Statistics compiled for presentation in India Volume I-Part II-A, it has been found convenient to present the tables in two separate: books. The first book contains the General Population Tables A-I to IV. This second book contains the Union Primary Census Abstracts whicb give AbstractS down to the level < of each district .and for individual towns with a population of 50,000 and over. The Appendix gives three additional Abstracts:- (i) Abstracts for Town Groups and Towns consisting of more than one part, each having ~ population of more than 100,000 and 50,000 and Ov~!,_ respectively; (ii) Abstracts for the Calcutta Industrial Region, a delineation of vftlich has been attempted on the proportion of workers outside agriculture resident in Calcutta and its environs, both rural and urban; '(this Census Industrial Region should not be associated with the Calcutta Metropolitan Planning Region or any concept of Calcutta Metropolita"n Zone) and (iii) Abstracts for Madras Industrial Region which has been delineated on the same principles as the Calcutta Industrial Region. NOtE This Abstract generally corresponds to Union Table 'E' of 1951. Tbe column bead.io&S of Table'S' ot 19$1 as well as at this table are reproduced below for comparison. COLUMN-HEADINGS OF UNION TABLE 'E' OF 1951 Percentage Population Variation State/Divisionl Districtrrahsil/ 1951 Taluk/P .S.I Area in 1941 1941· 1931· Town Sq. miles Persons Males Females Persons 1951 1941 1951 1941 1 2 3 4 S 6 7 8 9 10 Livelihood Classes Non-agricultural Classes Persons (including dependants) who derive their principal means Agricultural Classes of livelihood from :- " . I II III IV V VI VII VIII Cultivators Cultivators Non-cultivating of land wholly of land wholly owners of land, Other or mainly owo- or mainly un- Cultivating Agricultural rent "- Production services and ed and their owned and their labourers and receivers and their other than miscellaneous dependants dependants their dependants dependants cultivation Commerce Transport sources A , r A._ , ~ ~ r--"----"'I r--"---. M F M F M. F M F M F M F M F M ,F 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. 21 22 23 24 ·2S 26 COLUMN-'HEADINGS OF UNION PRIMARY CENSUS ABSTRACT, 1961 Total No. WORlW.S of persons r-----------~~--------~ enumerated I IT (including inmates of O;;cupied institutions Literate &. Total As residential and house- Scheduled Scheduled educated workers As Agricultural houses less persons) , Castes Tribes persons (I-IX)" Cultivator . labolL-er Area r--"---. ~ r--"---. r--"---. r--"---. ,---J---., A 1 r--"---. State/Divi- in No. No. sian/District/ Sq. of of . Tahsilrralukl mileS Hou- Hou- S1. Anchal/P.S./ or ses so- No. Town acres holds_ P M F P M F P M F P M F P M F P M F P M F 1 2 3 4 S 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. 14 IS 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 2a 24 2S 26 " ~ WORDRB III IV v VI VII VIII IX x In Mining, . QUarry- ing, Livestock, " In Forestry, Fishing, In Transport, Hunting & Planta­ At Manufacturing In Storage & In tions, Orchards & Household other than House- In Trade & Communi- Other N()n- Allied activities Industry hold Industry Construction Commerce cations Services wdrlfe ...A 14. ... : t,-----..JL. 1 I r \ ~ r--"---. t ~-"'l p M F P M F P M F P M F P M F P M F P M F"' P M F 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 3S 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 4~ 44' 45 46 47 48 49 .j) The condensed decadal comparisons of variations in population number of the buildiil, ~ild the sub-nwnber of the cehslls and density (popuJation per Square mile) afforded by Columns 3 house. The census house number should be written after the building number in arabic numerals in brackets such as 2(2), and 6, 7 and 8,9 and 10 of Table 'E' of 1951 have been dispersed, 3(2), etc. A census house may contain more than one among several tables in 1961. Thus population £Or Square mile household, in which case, each household will have to be has been given in Col. 4 in Union Table A-I (1961), while den­ . denoted by a separate alphabetical sub-number. sities for 1951 and 1961 will have to be worked out from informa­ tion given in Appendix to Union Table A-II. The figures for de­ cade variations, availabJe in Columns 7 and 8 of Table 'E' of J 951 Column 11-Sub-number of each Census House· will be available in Union Table A·II of 1961. Accounts of house_ hold with Census House number (Column 3). less and institutional population will be found in Village Directc.­ A household is a group of persons who commonly live ries of some States in 1951, while separate accounts fOf houseless· together and would take their meals from a common kitchen and institutional population will be found in Appendix III to unless the exigencies of work prevented any of them from Union Table A-I. Columns for census houses and for litt:rate doing so. (and educated) persons were provided in the Village Directory for There may be one or more households in a census house. 1951. Each household should be separately numbered. This can be done by using the alphabets as (A), (B), (C), etc. For The six Columns for members of Scheduled Castes and Schedul­ example, if building No.2 is also a census house and has three ed Tribes in 1961 are a new feature. The economic classification households, the household numbers will be 2(A), 2(B) and 2(C). reflects the differences between 1951 and 1961 detailed below. If building No. 4 has two census houses, the house will be numbered' as 4(1) and 4(2). If within each house there are The information in this Abstract will be fully reproduced down respectively 3 and 2 households, then they will be numbered to the level of the village in the Village Directory for each district as 4 (lA), 4(1B), 4(1C) and 4(2A) and 4 (2B). in 1961. A three-tier classification was thus attempted in 1961. First The statistics of occupied residential ho:uses (houses and the building, which is essentially a structural' unit. But although households) have been compiled from the enumerator's abstract buildings were recorded at the houselisting stage, no data o~ build~ of household schedules completed at the close of Census Opera­ ings have been tabulated. Secondly, the census house, which is tions by the enumerator himself. This abstract was checked at the a structure or part of a structure inhabited or vacant or a dwelling, sorting and Tabulation Offices before the pads of hou&ehold sched-' a shop, a shop-cum-dwelling or a place of business, workshop, ules were broken up for drawing the 20 % sample of household school etc. with a separate entrance. An Occupied residential schedules. house means a census house which is used, in addition to any other purpose, for purposes of human habitation by people who The way a census house or household was located and num­ are actually living at the time of census enumeration. It may also' bered is described in the following instructions on housenumbering be entirely used as a family dwelling. Thirdly, the household and houselisting. which is a social, unit. 'A household is a group of persons who commonly live together and take their meals from a common Column 3-Building Number (Column 2) with sub­ kitchen unless the exigencies of work prevent any of them from numbers for each Census House doing so. A household implies the existence of a Common kitchen and common partaking of meals. Generally, a household means A census house is a structure or part of a structure inha­ members of a family living together but there may be cases bited or vacant, or a dwelling, a shop, a shop-cum-dwelling or a place of business, workshop, school etc., with a separate where persons not connected with family ties may alsO' be living entrance .. together, as in a hostel or mess or hospital. These would also be households, not family, but institutional. It is possible for more If a building has a number of fiats or blocks which have than one family or one census household to live in one census house· separate entrances of their own and are independent of each other giving on the road or a common staircase or a common The procedure adopted for t11e enumeration of houseless courtyard leading to ~ main gate, they will be considered as separate census houses. If within an enclosed or open and institutional population has been explained in connexion with compound there are separate buildings then each such biliJding Appendix III to Union Table A-I. - It is possible that a small will also be a separate census house. If all the structures proportion of the smaller institutions like small messes and board~ within an enclosed compound are together treated as one buil­ ing houses may have been missed and included in family households. ding then each structure with a separate entrance should be treated as a separate census house.