CENSUS 1961 GUJARAT DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK 2 RAJKOT DISTRICT R. K. TRIVEDI Superintendent of Census Operations. Gujaral PRICE Rs. 10.40 uP. DISTRIC1': RATKOT DISTRJCT RAJKOT GUJARAT REFERENCES HQ * D'STR'CT ® TALUKA HQ -- DISTRIC1 BOUNDARY " ........ TALUKA BOUNDARY :t:t:Ilm BRO A 0 GAUGE - ~ETER GAUGE = CANAL .=--- RIVER ® REST HOUSE ® POLICE STATION o UNINHABITED • VILLAGE.'lI~~.(,.2')00 jO(>c:l>SOOO • VllLAGE.looo~5000-.'jQO{) • VilLAGE _, 50.~ @ TOWN [3 MUNICIPALITY :.::.: NATIONAL H,GHWAy =.:::: STATE H'GHWAY ---- LOCAL ROAD PO POST OFFICE PT POST ~ TELEGRAPH. DISTRICT CENSUS OF INDIA 1961 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS Census of India, 1961 Volume V-Gujarat is being published in the following parts: I-A General Report I-B Report on Vital Statistics and Fertility Survey I-C Subsidiary Tables II-A General Population Tables II-B(I) General Economic Tables (Tables B-1 to B-IV-C) n-B(2) General Economic Tables (Tables B-V to B-IX) II-C Cultural and Migration Tables III Household Economic Tables (Tables B-X to B-XVII) IV-A Report on Housing and Establishments IV-B Housing and Establishment Tables V-A Tables on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes V-B Ethnographic Notes on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (including reprints) VI Village Survey Monographs (25 Monographs) VII-A Selected Crafts of Gujarat VII-B Fairs and Festivals VIII-A Administration Report-EnumeratiOn} Not for Sale VIII-B Administration Report-Tabulation IX A tlas Volume X Special Report on Cities STATE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 17 District Census Handbooks in English 17 District Census Handbooks in Gujarati CONTENTS Pages PREFACE vii-xi ALPHABETICAL LIST OF VILLAGES xiii-xxii PART I (i) Introductory Essay • 1-40 (1) Location and Physical Features, (2) Administrative Set-up, (3) Local Self Government, (4) population, (5) Housing, (6) Agriculture, (7) Livestock, (8) Irrigation, (9) Co-operation, (10) Economic Activity, (11) Industries and Power, (12) Transport and Communications, (13) Medical and Public Health, (14) Labour and Social Welfare, (15) Price Trends, (16) Community Development, (17) Five Year Plans, (18) Important Place Names (ii) Gazetteer of Place Names • 41-52 PART II (i) Census Tables A-GENERAL pOPULATION TABLES Note 3-5 Table A-I Area, Houses and Population 6 Appendil( I 1951 Territorial units constituting the present set-up of district and each taluka/mahal 7 Sub-Appendix I to Appendix I Area for 1951 and 1961 for those municipal towns which have undergone changes in area since 1951 Census 8 Sub-Appendix 2 to Appendix I District/Taluka/Mahal showing 1951 population according to territorial jurisdiction in 1951 changes in area and the populations involved in those changes 8-9 Annexure to Appendix I Villages transferred from and to Rajkot District 10-11 .List Places with a population of under 5,000 in 1951 which were treated as towns in 1951, but havc been omitted from the list of towns in 1961 12 Appendi){ II Number of Villages with a population of 5,000 and over and towns with a population under 5,000 12 Appendi" III Houseless and Institutional Population 13 Table A-III Villages classified by population 14-15 Table A-IV Towns and Town-groups classified by population in 1961 with variation since 1941 16-17 Appendi){ I New Towns added in 1961 and Towns in 1951 declassified in 1961 17 Note-A Particulars oC new towns added in 1961 18 Note-B Particulars of 1951 Census towns declassified in 1961 18 Special APpendix Towns with their area and jurisdiction 18 B-(i)-GENERAL ECONOMIC TABLES Note 19-25 Table B-1 Workers and Non-workers classified by sex and broad age-groups 26 Table B-IIl Part A Industrial classification of Workers and Non-workers by educational levels in Urban areas only 27 part B Industrial classification of Workers and Non-workers by educational levels in Rural areas only 28-31 Table B-IV part A Industrial classification by sex and class of worker of persons at work at Household Industry 32-35 Part B Industrial classification by sex and class of worker of persons at work in non-household industry, trade, business, profession or service 36-41 Table B-IV Part C Industrial classification by sex and divisions, major groups and minor groups of persons at work other than cultivation 42-52 Appendix to Table B-IV Part C 52-53 Table B-V Occupational classification by sex of persons at work other than cultivation 54-81 Appendix to Table B- V . 82-83 Annexure Appropriate Industrial Categories of Occupational Families 83 Table B-VII Part A Persons working principally (i) as Cultivators (ii) as Agricultural labourers or (iii) at Household Industry classified by sex,. and by Secondary work (i) at Household Industry (ii) as Cultivator or (iii) as Agricultural labourer 84-87 Appendix to Table B-VII Part A 87 Table B-VII Part B Industrial classification by sex or persons working in non-household industry, trade, business, profession or service who are also engaged in household industry 88-97 Table B-VIlI Part A Persons unemployed aged 15 and above by sex, broad age-groups and educational levels in Urban areas only 98-99 Part B Persons unemployed aged 15 and above by sex and educational levels in Rural areas only 98-99 Table B-IX Persons not at work classified by sex, broad age-groups and type of activity 100-104 B-(ii)-HOUSEHOLD ECONOMIC TABLES Table B-X Sample Households (i) engaged neither in cultivation nor household industry (ii) engaged either in cultivation or household industry but not in both and {iii) engaged both in cultivation and household industry for all areas 105 Table B-XI Sample Households engaged in cultivation classified by interest in land and size of land cultivated in Rural and Urban areas separately 105-107 Table B-XII Sample HousehOlds engaged in cultivation only classified by size of land cultivated and number of family workers and hired workers in Rural and Urban areas separately 108-117 Table B-XVI Sample Principal household industry classified by period of working and total number of workers engaged in household industry in all areas 118-122 Appendix to Table B-XVI 123 Table B-XVII Sample Households classified by (i) number of male and female members by size of households and (ii) engagement (a) neither in cultivation nor in industry (b) in household industry only and (c) in cultivation sub-classified by size of land cultivated 124 C-SOCIAL AND CULTURAL TABLES Note ]25-126 Table C-I Composition of Sample Households by relationship to head of family Classified by size of land cultivated 127 Table C-I1 Age and Marital Status 128-133 Table C-lII Part A Age, Sex and Education in all areas 133 Part B Age, Sex and Education in Urban areas only 134 Table C-IV Single Year Age Returns 135 Table C-V Mother Tongue (Alphabetical order) . 136-139 Table C.VII Religion 140 Table C-VIII Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Part A Clysification by Literacy and Industrial Category of Workers and Non-workers among Scheduled Castes • • • • • 141 part B Classification by Literacy and Industrial Category of Workers and Non-workers among ~ch<rdulecj Tri~es 142 iv Pages E·HOUSING TABLES Note 143-145 Table E-I Census Houses and the uses to which they are put 146--147 Table E-Il Tenure Status of Sample Census households living in census houses used wholly or partly as dwelling 14&-149 Table E-IV Distribution of Sample households living in census houses used wholly or partly as dwelling by predominant material of wall and predominant material of roof 150-151 Table E-V Sample households classified by number of members and by number of rooms occupied 152-153 SCT-SPECIAL TABLES FOR SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES Note ISS Table SCT-I Part A Industrial classification of persons at work and non-workers by sex for Scheduled Castes 156-157 Part B Industrial classification of persons at work and non-workers by sex for Scheduled Tribes 158 STATEMENT A-POPULATION OF SCHEDULED CASTES 159 STATEMENT B-POPULATION OF SCHEDULED TRIBES 159 VILLAGE-WISE LIST OF INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS 161-166 ANNEXURE-STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION 166-168 LIST OF RURAL CRAFTS AND NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED IN PRODUCTION 169-196 (ii) Official Statistics 199-226 (A detailed Jist of wbJes on Official Statistics is given at page J98) PART III Village Directory Note 3 Rajkot Taluka 5-23 Jasdan Taluka 25-31 Paddhari Mahal 33-37 GondaJ Taluka 39-49 Lodhika Mahal 51-53 Kotda Sangani Mahal 55-57 Morvi Taluka 59-71 Maliya Mahal 73-77 Wankaner Taluka 79-87 letpur Taluka 89-95 Dhoraji Taluka 97-103 lamkandorna Mahal 105-109 Vpleta Mahal 111-119 MAPS District Map Prontispiece Fairs Facing Page 225 Taluka Rajkot " " 5 Taluka Jasdan .. 25 Mahal Paddhari 33 TaJuka Gondal ,. 39 Mahal Lodhika 51 Mahal Kotda Sangani " 55 Taluka Morvi " 59 Mahal Maliya 73 Taluka Wankaner 79 Taluka Jetpur 119 Taluka DhorOlji 97 Mahal Jamkandorna 105 " Mahal Upleta III " PREFACE Before 1951, only the figures of population advisable to incorporate as many of the census of revenue villages were given in what were then tables as possible to enhance its usefulness. The called 'Village Handbooks'. But the decision to result has been that the District Census Hand­ bring out the District Census Handbooks giving book of 1961 differs widely in the matter of extracts from all the important census tables for content and coverage from that published after every district of the State was taken for the first the Census of 1951 and contains a number of time in 1951.