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BADAGAS (literally " a Telugu man ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 181 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BADAGAS (literally " a
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Telugu
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man ")  , a tribe inhabiting the Nilgiri Hills, in
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India, by some authorities declared not to be an aboriginal or
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jungle
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race . They are probably
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Dravidian by descent, though they are in
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religion
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Hindus of the Saiva
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sect . They are supposed to have migrated to the
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Nilgiris from
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Mysore about A.D . 1600, after the breaking up of the
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kingdom of
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Vijayanagar . They are an agricultural
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people and far the most numerous and wealthy of the
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hill tribes . They pay a
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tribute in
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grain, &c., to the Todes . Their
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language is a corrupt
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form of
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Kanarese . At the
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census of 1901 they numbered 34,178 . See J . W . Breeks, An
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Account of the
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Primitive Tribes of the Nilgiris (1873) ; Nilgiri
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Manual, vol. i. pp . 218-228;
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Madras Journ. of Sci. and Lit. vol. viii. pp .

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

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here badagas-literally mean telugu man, you have given but most of the words resemble to kannada and few word are related to telugu. for example temple-in telugu it is gudi as in badaga. but understanding telugu by an badaga man in difficult than understanding kanada. so can u give detail information about the meaning u gave for badaga.
Badugas are no were connected to Telugu man. Badagas are basically of Aryan race but adopted dravidian language
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