Badaga Of The Nilgiris
The Badagas are an important Tribe of Nilgiris and their Culture is very rich and unique in many ways. The tribal ways of doing rituals while celebrating the following life-cycle rituals by Badagas even today reveals the fact that they followed a distinctive tribal culture in the Nilgiri hills.
BADAGA HISTORY ~ Badaga Of The NilgirisBadagas of The Nilgiris
Badagas worship several Hindu deities, including Shiva, but their main deities are Hethai and Ayya. They celebrate Hethai Habba in a grand fashion spread over a month during December–January every year, and the festival is celebrated all over the district.
BADAGA CULTURE ~ Badaga Of The NilgirisBadagas of The Nilgiris
The Badagas are an important Tribe of Nilgiris and their Culture is very rich and unique in many ways. The tribal ways of doing rituals while celebrating the following life-cycle rituals by Badagas even today reveals the fact that they followed a distinctive tribal culture in the Nilgiri hills.
FESTIVALS ~ Badaga Of The NilgirisBadagas of The Nilgiris
Badagas main deities are Hethai and Ayya. They also worship several Hindu deities, including Shiva, Krishna, Khaali, Maari, Muniappa. They celebrate Hethai Habba in a grand fashion spread over a month during December–January every year, and …
THE SPECIALCHARACTERISTICS OF BADUGAS
Badagas are the largest aboriginal Tribes inhabiting in Nilgiris over 5000 BC .They have an ethnic worship, culture, folk dance and songs.
DRESS ~ Badaga Of The NilgirisBadagas of The Nilgiris
The typical tribal costume of the Badaga men consists of languti, white turban; long body-cloth with red, black and gold stripes wrapped round throw one end is over his shoulder (Seelae). All use white cloth as dress code, use walking stick and leaf-made umbrella.
RARE IMAGES 1 ~ Badaga Of The NilgirisBadagas of The Nilgiris
The Badagas are the largest aboriginal Tribes of the Nilgiri district. Nilgiris was originally a tribal land. The Badagas live in n...
OOTY ~ Badaga Of The NilgirisBadagas of The Nilgiris
The major tribes of Nilgiri area are Todas, Kotas, Badagas and Alu Kurumbas, who settled in and around Ooty. The first reference of Badugas in Nilgiri is found in a record dated 1117 A.D. Toda people are known for raising water buffaloes and Badaga people for their farming activities.
THE NILGIRIS ~ Badaga Of The NilgirisBadagas of The Nilgiris
Many Neolithic monuments could be found in nilgiris, mostly in Badaga Villages where Badagas considered it as Sacared. Badagas says that these monuments are built by their ancestors. They offer regular pojas to the monuments.
BY PAUL HOCKINGS ~ Badaga Of The NilgirisBadagas of The Nilgiris
Paul Hockings a well known U.S. Anthropologist says The Badagas are Ingenious to the Nilgiris. In His recent Interview to Times Of India, says the tribe's lack of cultural roots outside Nilgiris makes it ingenious.