According to the 2011 India census report, Naduvalur,  located 250 km from Chennai, India, has a population of 1,991 inhabitants . The closest town is Thuraiyur and the closest city is Trichy also known as Tiruchirapalli. You can see the location of Naduvalur in Google Maps.  Like any other Indian villages, Naduvalur has a cluster of houses in the middle of the village with few streets and one main bus route.  The surrounding land around the cluster of houses is used for cultivation. Naduvalur is governed by a panchayat.  The conflicts within the village are solved by the village Panchayat with occasional interference of police or the court system.  

Naduvalur and some of these villages close to Thuraiyur are not fed by the Kaveri river. Consequently, most of these villages are depended on the monsoon or wells for drinking water and for farming. Water is very scarce in these villages.  Naduvalur has an elementary school, high school upto the 10th grade: for 11th and 12th the students have to go to Thuraiyur. Naduvalur has a post office, a library, ration store, and a veterinary clinic. 

 

Agriculture and farming are still the prominent occupations of this village. Although the literarcy rate has increased due to the availability of educational resources, the younger generation from these villages has changed their occupation from agriculture to industry and are moving to the urban areas.

 

Every village is special and prominent for its own specific reasons. Naduvalur has a distinguished cultural and religious integrity. The village deities of Naduvalur do not follow the traditional patterns of Hindu Gods and Goddesses and are known as kaval deivam or guardian spirits in Tamil. These village deities are associated with a main deity which is generally attributed to kula deivam by various sects of community,  as part of tracing their generation through centuries. Amman deities are usually in the center of the village.  Kula deivam or the ancestral God worshipped by the forefathers continues to be worshipped by their descendents.   The kulam is the familiy lineage and deivam is God.  A temple to a kula deivam constructed in one's ancestral village will be the main deity.  People who have migrated to other places still visit their ancestral village and pay their respects. Kula deivams are Marriamman and Iyennars, who are considered the great deities in the villages. The worship pattern in Naduvalur is a non-Vedic through folk tale, folk song and folk arts, namely the villupattu, karagam and koothu. The local priests of the villages offer veeputhi (holy ash) and holy flowers for the worshippers and also serve as a connection to the God.  Some of the other Gods are Muthaar Amman, Pachai Thanni Amman, Mutha Amman, Pachai Amman and Pal Pazhakkari Amman.