![]() The rising generation are, to some extent, learning Tamil and English, in addition to their own language, which is said to resemble old Canarese. possess tea and coffee estates of their own. Others are, at the present day, earning good wages in the Cordite Factory near Wellington. Many work on tea and coffee estates, and gangs of Badagas can always be seen breaking stones on, and repairing the hill roads. Though the primary occupation of the Badagas is agriculture, there are among their community, schoolmasters, clerks, public works contractors, bricklayers, painters, carpenters, sawyers, tailors, gardeners, forest guards, barbers, washermen, and scavengers. ![]() ![]() Their number was returned, at the census, 1901, as 34,178 against 1,267 Kotas, and 807 Todas. Badaga.-As the Todas are the pastoral, and the Kotas the artisan tribe of the Nīlgiris, so the agricultural element on these hills is represented by the Badagas (or, as they are sometimes called, Burghers). ![]()
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