Badagas
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The Badagas are an ethno-linguistic community living in the Nilgiris district in Tamil Nadu, India. Throughout the district the Badugas live in nearly 400 villages, called Hattis. The Badagas speak a
Badaga family in the Nilgiri Hills, 1909
Badagas celebrating the festival of Hetha Habba.
Badaga temple
Vokkaliga
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Vokkaliga is a community of closely related castes, from the Indian states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Badagas
…meaning 'northerner', comes from Old Kannada Badagana, meaning 'north.' According to the Badaga oral tradition, their ancestors were presumed to be Vokkaligas who migrated from the plains of Mysore to avoid Muslim persecution. According to American anthropologist Paul Hockings, whose research on the Badagas…
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Kempe Gowda I chieftain under the Vijayanagara Empire. The city of Bengaluru was founded by Kempe Gowda in 1537.