How Devrai counts a grove
From a line in a State register to a count on the map, what is never shown, and what the registers cannot say.
From a register to the map
7,481 register lines, 6,792 groves counted
1 · A line in a register
7,481lines read from 25 State pages
Each State's own survey lists its groves; the ENVIS centre at C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre compiles them.
2 · Find the village
2,417matched in the Local Government Directory, inside the named district
Old and misspelt names are resolved: "Cuddapah" is today's Y.S.R. Kadapa.
3 · Or only the district
4,375village not matched, district matched
Registers written before a State was split are read into today's States.
4 · Or held back
638held; 51 more were page numbers and table headings, dropped
A district later split in two, or a village written where the district should be, is held, not guessed.
Why no automatic score
An automatic "is this a grove?" score was tried first and set aside: it scored lines by how they were written, not by what they were, and would have dropped real groves. Each line is a record from an official register; the only question asked is where it is.
Counted, never located
what the map draws, and the check that keeps it so
A count for each district
No grove's name, village, deity, area or position is shown. They stay in Maplore's register, each with its citation.
Scanned before anything goes out
Every night, and before every change to this site, a test scans every public file for any grove's name. If it finds one, nothing is published.
What it can't tell you
- The registers list only some groves; a district with none listed is not a district with no groves.
- Registers written before a district was split name the old district; the grove is counted in the district that keeps the name today.
- The local name is the one each state's register uses for its groves, not a name recorded for each grove.
- Whether a grove still stands. Registers are years old in places; nothing here has been checked on the ground yet.
Custodians of a grove can ask to add its story or choose how it is shown. Write to us.