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 …

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 …

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 call festivals as "HABBA." Badagas main deities are Hethai and Ayya. They also worship several Hindu deities, including Shiva, Krishna, Khaali, Maari, Muniappa.

Badagas are the largest aboriginal Tribes inhabiting in Nilgiris over 5000 BC .They have an ethnic worship, culture, folk dance and songs.

Badagas are the largest aboriginal Tribes inhabiting in Nilgiris over 5000 BC .They have an ethnic worship, culture, folk dance and songs.

BADAGAS OF NILGIRIS INCLUDED IN UN WORLD’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DATA BASE. The Badagas, the largest indigenous social group in the Nilgiris, have been included in the Data …

The Badagas lost more than two lakhs acres of their ancestral lands (H.B.Grigg, 1880:12,302,307,312,325,332). Where would these people go? Pre-British Nilgiri was called …

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. …

It is well known that the traditional dress of the men and women of the Badagas are different from other communities in India. The typical tribal costume of the Badaga men consists of languti, …