Editing Badagas (section)

== History ==
The name Badaga, meaning 'northerner', comes from [[Old Kannada]] ''Badagana'', meaning 'north.'According to the Badaga oral tradition, their ancestors were presumed to be [[Vokkaliga]]s who migrated from the plains of Mysore to avoid Muslim persecution.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hockings|first=Paul |date=1980 |title= Ancient Hindu refugees: Badaga social history 1550-1975|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RcKoMC-7JQkC&q=badaga+okkaliga&pg=PA27 |location=New York: Mouton |publisher= The Hague|page=27-28 |isbn=9783110807943 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Davey |first=Gareth |author-link= |date= 3 May 2018|title= Quality of Life and Well-Being in an Indian Ethnic Community: The Case of Badagas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yXZZDwAAQBAJ&q=badaga+vokkaliga&pg=PA72|location=Switzerland|publisher=Springer International Publishing |page= 72|isbn=978-3-319-90662-1}}</ref> According to American anthropologist Paul Hockings, whose research on the Badagas spans nearly six decades, "the (Badaga) tribe despite its sketchy history is as indigenous to the Nilgiris as the English are to Britain."<ref>{{Cite news |author=Shantha Thiagarajan |work=[[The Times of India]] |title=US anthropologist gives voice to Badagas' Nilgiris origin claim |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/tracking-indian-communities/us-anthropologist-gives-voice-to-badagas-nilgiris-origin-claim/ |date=9 January 2018 |access-date=2020-05-21}}</ref>

They claim to come from seven siblings living in the [[Thalaimalai Hills]]. After they fled from a Muslim ruler who tried to rape their sister, they settled in different parts of the Nilgiris. The second brother, Hethappa, was working outside when two [[Toda people|Todas]] raped his wife and took his goods. He sought the aid of two Bayaluru, who agreed to help him if they married his two daughters. They killed the Todas, and the inhabitants of the village at the time claimed descent from the Bayalurus and Badaga daughters.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Castes and tribes of Southern India|last=Thurston|first= Edgar|date=2001|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=8120602889|oclc=49514631}}</ref>