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Badaga may refer to: * Badagas, an indigenous people inhabiting the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu, India * Badaga language, spoken by the Badagas * Badaga cinema, the Badaga language film industry based in Udagamandalam in Tamil Nadu, India * Badaganadu The Badaganadu are a Brahmin community that mainly reside in Karnataka and in Tamil Nadu. They are followers of either the Advaita Vedanta propounded by Adi Shankara or the Dvaita Vedanta propounded by Madhvacharya and hence there are Sma ..., a Brahmin community that resides primarily in Karnataka {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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Badagas
The Badagas are an ethno-linguistic community living in the Nilgiri district in Tamil Nadu, India. Throughout the district the Badugas live in nearly 400 villages, called Hattis. The Badagas speak a language called Badaga. History The name Badaga, 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 spans nearly six decades, "the (Badaga) tribe despite its sketchy history is as indigenous to the Nilgiris as the English are to Britain." They claim to come from seven siblings living in the Talamalai Hills. After they fled from a Muslim ruler who tried to rape their sister, they settled in different parts of the Nilgiris. The second brother, Hethappa, was working outside when two Todas raped his wife and took his goods. H ...
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Badaga Language
Badaga is a southern Dravidian language spoken by the Badagas, Badaga people of the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. The language is closely related to the Tamil language, Tamil and Kannada languages. Of all the tribal languages spoken in Nilgiris (Badaga, Toda language, Kota language (India)), Badaga is the most spoken language. Writing system Several attempts have been made at constructing an orthography based on English language, English, Kannada and Tamil language, Tamil. The earliest printed book using Kannada script was a Christian work, "Anga Kartagibba Yesu Kristana Olleya Suddiya Pustaka" by Basel Mission Press of Mangaluru in 1890. Badaga can also be written in the Kannada script and Tamil script. Dictionary Badaga is well studied and several Badaga-English Dictionaries have been produced since the latter part of the nineteenth century. References External links Online community of Badagas worldwideBadaga literatureA website on the BadagaAudio recordi ...
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Badaganadu
The Badaganadu are a Brahmin community that mainly reside in Karnataka and in Tamil Nadu. They are followers of either the Advaita Vedanta propounded by Adi Shankara or the Dvaita Vedanta propounded by Madhvacharya and hence there are Smarthas and Madhwas among them. See also * Hoysala Karnataka Brahmins * Forward Castes * Madhwa Brahmins Madhva Brahmins (also often referred as Madhvas or Sadh-Vaishnavas), are Hindu Brahmin communities in India, who follow Sadh Vaishnavism and Dvaita philosophy propounded by Madhvacharya. They are found mostly in the Indian states of Karnataka, Ma ... * Smartha Brahmins References {{reflist Kannada Brahmins ...
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