PANDIT LAKHMI CHAND STATE UNIVERSITY OF

PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS

Sociology-VII
Characteristics of Rural Society

Submitted To: Submitted By:

Ar. Vaishali Bhushan Vashisht

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CASE STUDY OF BAGHOLA, PALWAL, FARIDABAD, HARYANA

Baghola is a Village in Palwal Tehsil in Palwal District of Haryana State, India, Spread in an
area of 9.69 km². Baghola village is administrated by Gram Panchayat.

Background:

This ancient village has a proud history as this is the motherland of Birbal who was an advisor in
the court of Mughal emperor Akbar. The local language of this village is Hindi.

Facilities

It is a large village. The only Sanskrit Vidyapeeth of Haryana is situated in this village. It also
has DHVPNL power distribution Sub-Station of capacity (66KV), primary and secondary
schools (Govt. & Private), clinics and also has an Orphanage. Industries are also present at large
scale. This village is also famous for its own cracker warehouse.

Demography

Village has around 931 households, with a total population of 5413. The male population is 2826
and female population is 2587 as per the Census 2011 data. The rate of migrants from this village
is also very low because of availability of jobs in near area due to industrialization. People from
other states come to this village to work in industries near baghola. So day by day the population
of village is increasing.

Population Data as per census 2011-2021

Male
Female
Children
Division of Village

The division of village is on the basis of their caste. There are people from different castes but
the main dominating cast is “Brahman”. There are 45% Brahman, 34% Scheduled caste and
21% backward class.

Caste
21%

45%
Brahman
Schedule Caste
Backward Caste

34%

Literacy Rate

Literacy rate of this village is 77.22% as per 2011 census data which is good for socio-economic
progress of village.

Total Literacy Rate

Literacy
Illiteracy
Occupation Structure

People of this village are bound with different professions. Agriculture is the basic profession of
residents of Baghola especially for illiterates.

Working Population as per census 2011-2021

80.00%
70.00%
60.00%
50.00%
40.00%
30.00% Total
20.00% Male
Female
10.00%
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Family Type

In this village both type of families such as joint & nuclear are there. Few joint families shifted
to nuclear families.

Pros & Cons

Pros Cons
Good facilites of education, health & transport Cast Discrimination
Culture of village Due to industrialization, the pollution is
increasing which effects on human health.
Maximum job opportunities because of
industrialization.
The value of village will increase in the
coming time.