“Thus, there is no strong evidence for a migration, and also too much reliance on folklore and the rough observations of British colonial officials, even though it has been taken for granted by previous writers,” the letter further quoted the author. The Badaga parents refused to send their children to the mission schools35. In summary, separation of Badagas from other people based on history and migration seems unfounded,” they said quoting the book ‘Quality of Life and Well-Being in an Indian Ethnic Community: The Case of Badagas’ by Prof Gareth Davey. Also, genetic studies show Badagas share similarities with other indigenous people of Nilgiris. Grammatical homogeneity of Badagu and the language of Kotas, Kurumbas and Todas might indicate they have always resided in the Nilgiri hills. “Badagas have been misrepresented in the literature with a migrant identity. He said there was no archaeological or historical records to suggest Badagas were immigrants. on almost all social occasions and perform traditional badaga dances as a local strength and an ethnic fashion. Dharmalingam Venugopal, director, NDC, said the modern research had established that the colonial view of the Badagas was unfounded, biased and questionable. Irrespective of age, all badagas tend to wear traditional attire in the form of thundu, mundu, dhuppatti, seelai, mandarai, mandepattu, etc. Udhagamandalam: The Nilgiri Documentation Centre (NDC), which has been researching the history of the hill retreat for nearly four decades, has requested chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami to rectify a 200-year-old British colonial blunder of labelling the Badaga community as immigrants from Karnataka.
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