Add what your community knows
Every entry on the map below was put there by someone who knows the place. The word your village uses for a grove, a tank or a grazing ground — and the rule you follow to care for it — is recorded in very few places anywhere else. Share it here, and it becomes part of a public record of India's commons.
The record so far
Local names and rules that people have shared and reviewers have verified, mapped by state. Your entry joins this map once it is approved.
A local term carries who uses a resource and how it is held. When the word goes, the claim it encodes usually goes with it.
Grazing turns, fishing seasons, harvest limits — written down, these become evidence that communities govern well.
Commons are easiest to lose when they are invisible in the record. Mapped entries give researchers and officials something to point at.