Badaga



ETHNONYMS: Badacar, Badager, Baddaghar, Bergie, Budaga, Buddager, Buddagur, Burga, Burgher, Vadaca, Vadacar, Vuddaghur, Wuddghur (all former spellings)



See also Kota ; Kurumbas ; Toda

Bibliography

Hockings, Paul Edward (1978). A Bibliography for the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India. 2 vols. New Haven, Conn.: Human Relations Area Files.


Hockings, Paul Edward (1980a). Ancient Hindu Refugees: Badaga Social History, 1550-1975. The Hague: Mouton Publishers; New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House.


Hockings, Paul Edward (1980b). Sex and Disease in a Mountain Community. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House; Columbia, Mo.: South Asia Books.


Hockings, Paul Edward (1982). "Badaga Kinship Rules in Their Socio-Economic Context." Anthropos 77:851-874.


Hockings, Paul Edward (1987). "The Man Named Unige Mada (Nilgiri Hills, Tamilnadu)." In Folktales of India, edited by Brenda E. F. Beck, Peter J. Claus, Praphulladatta Goswami, and Jawarharlal Handoo, 125-129. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


Hockings, Paul Edward (1988a). "The Badagas." In Blue Mountains: The Ethnography and Biogeography of a South Indian Region, edited by Paul Hockings, 206-231. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.


Hockings, Paul Edward (1988b). Counsel from the Ancients: A Study of Badaga Proverbs, Prayers, Omens, and Curses. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.


Jagor, Andreas Feodor (1876). "Die Badagas im Nilgiri-Gebirge." [Verhandlungen der Berliner Gesellschaft fĂŒr Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte 1876.] Printed in Zeitschrift fĂŒr Ethnologie 8:190-204.


Jagor, Andreas Feodor (1914). Aus Fedor Jagor's Nachlass mit UnterstĂŒtzung der Jagor-Stiftung hereausgegeben von der Berliner Gesellschaft fĂŒr Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte unter Leitung von Albert GrĂŒnwedel. SĂŒdindische VolksstĂ€mme. Vol. 1. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.


Thurston, Edgar, and Kadamki Rangachari (1909). "Badagas." In Castes and Tribes of Southern India, edited by Edgar Thurston and Kadamki Rangachari. Vol. 1, 63-124. Madras: Government Press.

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User Contributions:

hi hello i like to gather informaton about baduga stories, dances ,songs and many things etc
The main festival is hethai abba, which is not mentioned here. Maari habba is adopted festival and not ancestral.
hi,i would like to know all the proverbs in our culture and i wish to share those proverbs with our friends through my e-mail.
Really proud to be badaga , but would like to know more about our culture
The funeral ritual is done by thota mane persons the first family to settle in the village or perhaps the true ancestor for any information related to badaga mail me at b.n.parameshwaran@gmail.com

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