Rural Dwellings and House Types of Chura Caste in Jhajjar District: A Clan-Wise Analysis

By : Rekha Dhanak , K.V. Chamar

Page No: 394-411

Abstract
The present study examines the clan-wise distribution of rural dwellings, house types based on building materials of Chura caste in Jhajjar district of Haryana state. Primary data has been collected from 460 sample households from 15 select villages with the help of stratified random sampling. The surveyed households are represented by 12 clans among Chura caste. It is found that about 61 per cent dwellings have one or two rooms, while nearly seven per cent dwellings have five or more rooms. About 63 per cent wall of the houses are made of mud and un–burnt bricks. Stone and reinforced cement concrete are the most prevalent materials used in roofs. The floors in nearly half of the houses are built of cement. On the whole nearly 55 per cent of the houses of the sample population are made of mixed type while about a little more than one-third can be categorized as pucca houses. Complete kutcha houses form barely nine per cent of the houses. Households with comparatively better socio-economic conditions have own pucca houses among the chura caste. The Geychand clan appears to be better off in term of quality of dwellings occupied while Lauth occupy the lowest position in the ladder.

Authors :
Rekha Dhanak
Assistant Professor, Govt. College Dubaldhan, Jhajjar

K.V. Chamar
Professor, Dept. of Geography, M.D. University, Rohtak.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/ATNAGI.2021.41.02.11