See also:

• BADAGAS (literally " a Telugu man ")

BADAGAS (literally " a See also:

• TELUGU

Telugu See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man ")  , a tribe inhabiting the Nilgiri Hills, in See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, by some authorities declared not to be an aboriginal or See also:

• JUNGLE (Sans. jangala)

jungle See also:

• RACE

race . They are probably See also:

• DRAVIDIAN (Sanskrit Dravida)

Dravidian by descent, though they are in See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion See also:

• HINDUS

Hindus of the Saiva See also:

• SECT

sect . They are supposed to have migrated to the See also:

• NILGIRIS, THE, or NEELGHERRIES (Blue Mountains)

Nilgiris from See also:

• MYSORE

Mysore about A.D . 1600, after the breaking up of the See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom of See also:

• VIJAYANAGAR, or BIJANAGAR (" the city of victory ")

Vijayanagar . They are an agricultural See also:

• PEOPLE

people and far the most numerous and wealthy of the See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill tribes . They pay a See also:

• TRIBUTE (Lat. tributurn, a stated payment, contribution)

tribute in See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, &c., to the Todes . Their See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language is a corrupt See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of See also:

• KANARESE

Kanarese . At the See also:

• CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census of 1901 they numbered 34,178 . See J . W . Breeks, An See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

Account of the See also:

• PRIMITIVE

Primitive Tribes of the Nilgiris (1873) ; Nilgiri See also:

• MANUAL

Manual, vol. i. pp . 218-228; See also:

• MADRAS

Madras Journ. of Sci. and Lit. vol. viii. pp .

103-105; Madras Museum Bulletin, vol. ii., no . 1, pp . 1-7 .