词条 | Badagas |
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| group = Badagas | image = Badagas.jpg | caption = Badaga family in the Nilgiri Hills, 1909 | languages = Badaga }} The Badugas are the peoples living in the Nilgiri district in Tamil Nadu, India. Throughout the district the Badugas live in nearly 400 villages, called Hattis. Baduga people speak the language called "Badugu". The language has no script CultureThundu (a white piece of cloth) and Seeley forms an integral part of the attire of the Badugu women. Badugas marry within their community and follow their own marriage traditions. Their important festival is Devva Habba. Devva Habba provides significant insights into the origin of Badugas. They have certain rules and regulations to be followed in implementing their cultural rituals from the birth of a child and follows through functions like puberty, marriage, naming ceremony, seventh-month pregnancy, housewarming, and finally in death. LanguageThe Badaga language is not a dialect of Kannada, although it is closely related. The Baduga community was formed in the Nilgiris out of small groups that banded together. LACITO in Paris houses numerous varieties of Baduga stories and songs collected over the past two decades.[1] EducationSeveral Badaga have become officials in various parts of the Indian Government. Former Lok Sabha MP, the late Smt. Akkamma Devi, was the first Badaga woman to graduate from college and represented the Nilgiri Lok Sabha constituency from 1962 to 1967. Belli Lakshmi Ramakrishnan M.A., was the first Badaga woman post graduate in social work, and went on to be the first woman gazetted officer to serve in the Tamil Nadu State Government Department of Health and Family Welfare.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}} Scheduled Tribe StatusThere is a long-standing demand to restore the status of the Badagas in the list of Scheduled Tribes under the Indian Constitution. The Badagas were on the tribes list during the British Raj, as per the 1931 census. After Independence, Badugas were on the Scheduled Tribe list during the 1951 census, but were later removed.[2] References1. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.timesofindia.com/city/coimbatore/Badaga-language-not-a-dialect-of-Kannada-claims-French-linguistic-scholar/articleshow/17472123.cms|title=Badaga language not a dialect of Kannada, claims French linguistic scholar|work=Times of India|accessdate=20 March 2018}} 2. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/Include-Badagas-in-ST-list-Jayalalithaa-requests-PM/article13799261.ece|title=Include Badagas in ST list: Jayalalithaa requests PM|date=2011-07-30|work=The Hindu|access-date=2017-12-08|others=Special Correspondent|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}} Bibliography
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