In the same way each and every festival in the badagar community is celebrated. Badaga dance is the high lighting custom performed to please and make the goddess happy. hethai festival is a major festival and is celebrated in a grand way.Hethai festival though is a customary and traditional festival people enjoy and celebrate this particular carnival a lot. Kada hethai and kada aiya are some of the names of hethai gods. Hethai Amman is the goddess of the Badaga people.There are nine goddess in hethai. but, even now you can still find the traditional houses in the rural ooty. these houses are now build all the concretes and cements. as the technological development took the lead. though these were small it accommodated many families. the houses were made out of bricks and woods in the early time. yes, it is tantalizing and the badaga people are very lucky. Just imagine a house in the slope and the early morning sight of the mild sun rays spreading over the green hills and the breezy cold wind. The amazing sight of these cute dwelling places will definitely steal the heart. As there are more then three hundred odd hattis (villages) in ooty, every village consists of atleast hundred houses. Among the wide spread green carpet, the houses bloom like tiny huts and little cottages. The houses portray the richness of the culture and the heart of the people. and we all know that ooty is known for the popular flower show.Many ranges of tasty apples, orange, gauva, custard-apple,peaches, strawberry,passion-fruit,pear and more.īadaga houses are fascinating and traditional buildings. Wide varieties and colors of roses, sun flowers, Dahlia, Hibiscus, jasmine ,marigold are planted. Greeny beans, leafy cabbages, beautiful cauli flower, pear shaped chuchu, big pumpkin, raw banana plantain and many more. The main occupation of the people in this community is agriculture.Tea plantation is the major agriculture here.Apart from this they also plant cheesy butter beans,Twiny double beans, Tiny Peas, Rich green Leaves,fatty potatoes ,colorful carrots. There are four Seemai in the community, Mekunadu, Kunda Seemai, thodanadu, Porangadu. Badaga community is wide spread in the villages of ooty.some historians argue that badagas are the natives of nilgiris, but many say that these people originated from the near by state karnataka.Now nilgiris has become the place for the whole badaga community.This largest community is now with the population of approximately 3,00,000.This forms the largest population of the nilgiri district. Hence, without proper documentation, early years of this culture may completely disappear.Badaga is one of the unique communities which has its own rich set of traditions and customs.
While having fully developed verbal arts, no visual arts were practiced by them until recently. Hence, they relied heavily on trading with neighbors, such as the Toda, Kota, and Kurumba tribes, for basic necessities.
Industrially speaking, the Badagas did not have specialized artisans until later in the 1930's. Generally, the Badagas, farm millets, barley, wheat, potatoes, and cabbages (the latter two produced mainly for extra income). The Tuneri village, for example, produces the hereditary position of Badaga chief, the Lingayat village, produces gurus that oversee life-cycle rituals, and the Wodeya, Haruva, and Kurumbu clans produce priests of various functions. The community is divided into a number of phratries that function like subcastes in that they form hierarchies such as: The Lingayat and Wodeya which are at the top of the group, and the Toreyas at the bottomĭifferent clans of various hierarchies all have specific functions in the community. But recently, as a response to the growing middle class, they started producing cash crops for added income. Initially, the Badagas subsisted by using slash and burn farming techniques.
Villages are each inhabited only by Badagas of specific clans, often numbering about several hundred people each. Its really interesting.ĭue to the Muslim invasion that destroyed the Hindu Empire of Vijayanagar in AD 1565, a group of people from the plains of Mysore district was forced to flee their homes to later become the largest community in the Nilgiri hills.Ĭollectively called the BADAGA, these people, who has a specific language called BADUGU, occupy a small district at the junction of Kerala, Kamataka, and Tamil Nadu states (#14). and form a very big community with lots and lots of friends around you.Ī Badaga-English Dictionary By Paul Hockings, Christiane Pilot-Raichoorīadaga Books. Just have a look into it and contibute your valuable suggestion and discussions. Orkut is fastest online friendship forum.
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