The Bunt people are an Indian community who historically have inhabited the Tulu Nadu region in South India. Bunts were traditionally a warrior-class or martial caste community, with agrarian origins, forming the landed gentry of the region. They are the dominant land-owning and farming community of Tulu Nadu, and speak Tulu as well as Kundagannada as their mother tongue. Today, the Bunts are a largely urbanised community, with a population size of less than one million worldwide.
Kuloor Boodu house has a history of more than two hundred years. This is the main house in northern Kasaragod
Image of the deity Jumadi at the Badagumane shrine in Belle, Udupi
Kowdoor Nayarabettu: A medieval Bunt manor house.
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Tulu Nadu or Tulunad is a region and a proposed state on the southwestern coast of India. The Tulu people, known as 'Tuluva', speakers of Tulu, a Dravidian language, are the preponderant ethnic group of this region. South Canara, an erstwhile district and a historical area, encompassing the undivided territory of the contemporary Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts of Karnataka State and Kasaragod district of Kerala state forms the cultural area of the Tuluver.
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As per Hindu mythology, Parashurama commanded Lord Varuna to make the seas recede to make the Tulu Nadu.
South Canara in 1909
Temple stambha, South Canara