Badaga Orign

Badagas form majority of the Nilgiris population spreading accross the district. There is a claim that badagas origin is from Mysore and that Badagas had migrated from Mysore thousands of years ago. One strong support to this claim is the similarity of the Badaga language with that of the Kannada language. There is also this other side of the story that the Badagas belong to the Nilgiris and that purely from the fact that there exists no script and that if they had migrated there could have been a script like Kannada. However, there is no conclusive evidence on these claims and the origin of Badagas continues to be a mystery.