The Nawayath (also spelled as Naiti, Navayath and Nawayat) are an Indian community and a subgroup of Konkani Muslims. The Indian historian Omar Khalidi says they are one of three groups of Indian Muslims who has used the Nawayarh name. These groups have common origins in the Arabian Peninsular and the Persian Gulf regions, where they were mariners and merchants. and that
The Namdroling Nyingmapa Monastery (or Thegchog Namdrol Shedrub Dargye Ling)(བོད་ཡིག ཐེག་མཆོག་རྣམ་གྲོལ་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་།) (Wylie: theg mchog rnam grol bshad sgrub dar rgyas gling) is the largest teaching center of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in the world. Located in Bylakuppe, part of the Mysuru district of the state of Karnataka, the monastery is home to a sangha community of over five thousand lamas (both monks and nuns), a junior high school named Yeshe Wodsal Sherab Raldri
Mysuru District is an administrative district located in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Mysore Division.Chamarajanagar District was carved out of the original larger Mysore District in the year 1998. The district is bounded by Chamrajanagar district to the southeast, Mandya district to the east and northeast, Kerala state to the south, Kodagu district to
Mangalorean Catholics (Konknni; Kodialchein Katholik) are an ethno-religious community of Indian Catholics adhering to the Latin Rites of worship, from the Mangalore diocese (in the erstwhile South Canara area) by the southwestern coast of Carnataca. They are Konkani people and speak the Konkani language. Contemporary Mangalorean Catholics descend mainly from the New Christians of Portuguese Goa and Damaon, who migrated to South Canara between 1560 and 1763 throughout the course of the Goan Inquisition, Portuguese–Adil Shahi wars, and the Mahratta Sackings
Malayalam (/ˌmæləˈjɑːləm/; Malayalam: മലയാളം, Malayāḷam ?, (listen)) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India and is spoken by 2.88% of Indians. Malayalam has official language status in Kerala, Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé), and is spoken by 34 million people worldwide. Malayalam is also spoken by linguistic minorities in the neighbouring
Madikeri Fort also called Mercara Fort is a fort in Madikeri, in the Kodagu district of the Indian state of Karnataka, first built by Mudduraja in the second half of the 17th century. Mudduraja also built the palace within the fort. It was rebuilt and restructured in granite by Tipu Sultan, and the site was then renamed Jaffarabad. Madikeri Fort is one
Kurumba, also known as Kannada Kurumba, is a Southern Dravidian language of the Tamil–Kannada subgroup spoken by the Kurumba tribe. It is often considered a dialect of Kannada; however, Ethnologue classifies it as a separate language. Geographical distribution Kurumba speakers are situated in Pudukkottai, Teni, Dindigul, Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri, Vellore, and Salem districts of Tamil Nadu, in addition to areas of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
The Kodavas are a ethnolinguistic group from the region of Kodagu (Coorg) in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, who natively speak the Kodava language . They are traditionally land-owning agriculturists and patrilineal, with martial customs. Kodavas are the only ones in India permitted to carry firearms without a license. Contents 1Origin 2History 2.1Puranic association 2.2Ancient period 2.3Rajas 2.4British Raj 3Culture
Kasaragod ( (listen)),ಕಾಸರಗೋಡು(Kāsaragōḍu) in Kannada and formerly Kassergode in English, is a municipal town and administrative headquarters of Kasaragod district in the state of Kerala, India. Established in the year 1966, Kasaragod was the first municipal town in the district. It is the northernmost district of Kerala and is also known as Saptha Bhasha Sangama Bhoomi (The land of seven languages). Situated in the rich biodiversity of Western Ghats, it
The Kodava (Kannada script: ಕೊಡವ ತಕ್ಕ್, Kodava takk, meaning ‘speech of Kodavas’, in the Kodava language, alternate names:Coorgi is an endangered Dravidian language and the original language of the Kodagu district in Southern Karnataka, India. The term Kodava has two related usages. Firstly, it is the name of the Kodava language and culture followed by a number of communities from Kodagu. Secondly, within the Kodava-speaking communities and region