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.

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.

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.

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 Base of World’s Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations Mountain Partnership.

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 “Badaga Country”.

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.

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, white turban; long body-cloth with red, black and gold stripes wrapped round throw one end is over his shoulder (Seelae).