Hi, This is at the other end of the dial from recent postings about 2019 parliamentary constituencies. In the past, I've done research which required linking districts as they were in British India (from the Imperial Gazetteer of 1886) and mapping them on to districts as they were in 1991. That allows me to 'reconfigure' data to match it with contemporary state boundaries. More recently. I've also mapped districts as reported in the Census of India, 2011 on to the idiosyncratic districts (different spellings, district numbers, etc.) used by the National Crime Records Bureau, so that I can calculate crime, etc. rates. I keep accumulating messy scraps of notes on what the district is now called (Tamilnadu and UP are particularly active in renaming districts, it seems). I was hoping that there might be a software solution which would allow me to consolidate my scraps into a form which might save someone else the hours I've spent trying to trace the genealogy of districts. I was also hoping to be able to generate something like this hand-made genealogy of the districts of British Berar. I've looked at genealogical software; there are no 'surnames' and it always wants 'mothers' and 'fathers'. Taxonomic/phylogenic software assumes you don't know what is related to what. Organizational charts are rather simple-minded. There are lots of things missing from the genealogy I've appended: alternative spellings; district headquarter towns; census numbers for different censuses, dates of creation, consolidation etc. So: I'm wondering a) if this is a project worth persisting with, and if so b) is there an easier, better approach that I might adopt. Thanks, Peter
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