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	Tulu Nadu - Information at Halfvalue.com
		Tulu Nadu (Tulu-Kannada:à²¤à³à²³à³à²¨à²¾à²¡à³) is a region in the southwestern coast of Karnataka, India, consisting of the districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi.
		Tulu Nadu was governed by feudatories of the Vijayanagara Empire until the 17th century.
		The longest reigning dynasty of Tulu Nadu was the Alupas (Aluvas).
	www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=Tulu_Nadu (1840 words)

	Tulu language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tulu is generally spoken as the local language by the Mangaloreans.
		The local population relates closely to any Tulu speaker and this fact has its own far reaching consequences and it is now a recognized language in the southern districts of Karnataka.
		Tulu is not taught in schools and Schedule 8B of the Constitution of India does not recognize it as an official language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tulu (796 words)

	Tulu Language : Its Script and Dialects by Neria Harish Hebbar, MD
		Tulu nadu is a region where many languages are spoken.
		Tulu, derived from proto-Dravidian is the predominant language spoken by Hindus of various castes and by the Jains of Tulu Nadu.
		Tulu is the only developed language that has not received the recognition it is due.
	www.boloji.com /places/0020.htm (858 words)

	Tulu - tulu babies
		Tulu is one of the tulu Dravidian languages of India with under 2,000,000 speakers.
		However, 19th century German missionaries used the Kannada script to transcribe Tulu works, and it soon fell out of tulu kaumatule use due to the fact that Tulu was a lingual minority in the princely state of Mysore.
		Most Tulu speakers do not rely on just this language and can usually speak a second language since outside of some regions in Karnataka and Kerela, its usage is severly limited.
	www.meteoroloo.com /Met-South-America-R---Z/Tulu.html (736 words)

	Tulu language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Tulu (തുളു, ತುಳು tuḷu) is a Dravidian language of India with fewer than two million speakers.
		However, the present day Tulu linguistic boundary is confined to Udupi Taluk of Udupi district.
		Since the usage of Tulu is mostly limited to regions in Karnataka and Kerala, most Tulu speakers can usually speak a second language.
	arikah.com /encyclopedia/Tulu_language (970 words)

	The Bunts of Tulu Nadu by Neria Harish Hebbar, MD
		The Bunts of southern Tulu nadu speak Tulu language, a form of language that is used in commerce in the region, called Common Tulu.
		Nadu also means ‘to plant’, and Bunts could have been primarily farmers who later took up arms and thus were associated with the military class.
		Like the Jains, they were rulers of Tulu nadu in the erstwhile history of the land with sovereignty over large segments of the populace.
	www.boloji.com /places/0022.htm (3208 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mangalore and Udupi are the chief cities in Tulu Nadu.
		Tulu cuisine is popular across South India, mostly due to 'Udupi restaurants', which are primarily vegetarian.
		The Tulu language was also once spoken in Uttara Kannada or North Kanara, which for this reason is sometimes considered part of Tulu Nadu as well.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Tulu_Nadu (444 words)

	Tulu Nadu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tulu Nadu is a region of the southwestern coast of Karnataka, consisting of the
		Tulu is generally spoken as the local language by the Mangaloreans.
		Conslusion : - Tulu is not taught in schools and Schedule 8B of the Constitution of India does not recognize it as an official language.
	www.bana.org /TuluNadu_1_.htm (1451 words)

	Yakshagana
		Tulu was not a medium or subject of formal school education.
		Tulu as a language branched off from Dravidian (Mula Dravida), language, at least a thousand years earlier to Malayalam.
		Tulu is now disappearing in Tulu country and has established itself in Kerala.
	www.yakshagana.com /Tululipi.htm (710 words)

	Tulu Koota Kuwait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tulu is one of the five major Dravidian Languages.
		Tulu language is spoken in Dakshina Kannada and Udipi districts in south western Karnataka State.
		Thus Tulu Koota Kuwait was born with the main aim of promoting Cultural, Social and Philanthropic activities.
	www.tulukootakuwait.com /tuluculture.asp (426 words)

	The Hindu : Karnataka / Mangalore News : Research on Tulu history planned
		The Tulu Academy will fund the research to find out who was the Abbakka who drove away the Portuguese after destroying their fleet.
		Tulu scholar and member of the academy Chidamber Baikampdy said there were at least three books on Abbakka queens and one of them was written by Kannada novelist Anupama Niranjana.
		During the first seven years Ullal made good progress, but the last one year of her rule was turbulent, and perhaps it was during that time that the queen faced trouble in her family and finally laid her life fighting the invaders.
	www.hindu.com /2006/05/15/stories/2006051506320400.htm (450 words)

	Tulu
		Tulu is one of the Dravidian languages of India with under 2,000,000 speakers.
		A grat debate is still not reached the verdict whether Tulu Script is originated from Malayalam or vice versa.
		However, 19th century German missionaries used the Kannada script to transcribe Tulu works, and it soon fell out of use due to the fact that Tulu was a lingual minority in the princely state of Mysore.
	www.governpub.com /Languages-T/Tulu.php (1229 words)

	Tulunad State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Tulu Nadu movement is gaining momentum in the region with support from poet Kayyara Kinhanna Rai and former MP Ramanna Rai.
		The Tulu Rajya Horata Samiti, which is now active in the three districts, said after Independence, Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts did not get any major irrigation or drinking water project.
		He said that he would not accept the laying of a meter gauge line between the two cities and converting it into broad gauge as a development project particularly when there was no rail link for nine years.
	www.tulunadsena.org /id9.html (358 words)

	Udupi - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Tulu name in turn is associated with a temple at Malpe, devoted to Odabhaandiishvara.
		It is the abode of Goddess Durga, nestled among the Western Ghats and attracts tourists from Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
		The erstwhile capital of historical Tulu Nadu, Barkur is dotted with temples and Jaina basadis.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Udupi (1654 words)

	Archives
		At Barkur, which was capital of Tulu Nadu during the rule of later Alupas and Vijayanagar governors, Tulu language is conspicuous by its absence.
		Explaning the etymology of words "Tulu" and "Tuluva" late Shri Govinda Pai, eminent Kannada poet and scholar writes that these words have been derived from the Tamil root "Tulai" (tulavu in Tulu language) which means row (a boat).
		It is significant to note that Alupas, the native ruling house of Tulu Nadu who ruled for more than thousand years before the advent of Vijaya Nagar empire in the 14th Century A.D. had "Mina Lanchana" or the fish as their emblem.
	www.mogaveeramandali.com /achive.html (1867 words)

	The Hindu : Karnataka / Mangalore News : Tulu Nadu movement gaining momentum
		MANGALORE: The Tulu Nadu movement is gaining momentum in the region with support from poet Kayyara Kinhanna Rai and former MP Ramanna Rai.
		One of them is the State Government is focussing only on the development of Bangalore and its periphery, and cities such as Mangalore and Udupi have received a raw deal.
		The Tulu Rajya Horata Samiti, which is now active in the three districts, said after Independence, Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts did not get any major irrigation or drinking water project.
	www.hindu.com /2006/08/13/stories/2006081317290300.htm (399 words)

	welcome to Udupipages.com
		The coastal strip lying between Gokarna and Payaswini (Perumpula) river of Kerala State was known as Tuluva land or Tulu Nadu.
		Udupi, described in traditional religious literature as "Rajata Peetha" or "Ruupya Peetha", is deemed to be one of the seven holy places of Tulu Nadu, the other places being Subramanya, Kumbhasi, Koteshwara, Shankaranarayana, Kollur and Gokarna.
		The name 'UDUPI' is the modern kannada version of 'ODIPU' which is the ancient name of this place in Tulu language.
	www.udupipages.com /home/temple/temple.html (264 words)

	tuluva (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Officially, there are no Tulu Muslims; however, this is doubtful, since Islam has influenced the neighbouring Kannada and Malayalee populations to a great extent (There is a sizeable population of Malayalee Muslims, Bearys in the South of Tulu Nadu and Urdu Muslims in the north of Tulu Nadu.
		It is possible that Tulu converts to Islam merged their identities with these two populations, just as Kannada converts merged their identity with Urdu in other parts of Karnataka).
		Tuluvas are generally bilingual in both Tulu and Kannada in Karnataka.
	www.traveltropicalbeaches.com /wiki/?title=Tuluva (338 words)

	Incoherent Theories: December 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In fact, the region of Tulu speakers beautifully explains expansion of Dravidian speakers and development of new dialects in and around South, North and East of Tulu Nadu.
		From the above chart it's clear that Tulu is the oldest and Tamil is the youngest of South Dravidian languages.
		Ergo, Tulu accent is the closest to the proto-Dravidian language.
	bantwal.blogspot.com /2005_12_01_archive.html (1448 words)

	Incoherent Theories: Origins of Malayalees-?
		Unlike the regions of Tulu Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu the region of Kerala was not inhabited until neolithic times.
		I strongly believe that matrilineal system was once widespread in both Tulu Nadu and Kerala but became irrelevent/absent in the case of weaker castes due to economic and religious dependency.
		Probably, the situation went worse in Tulu Nadu were only feudal caste and prosperous Jains(Jainism has nothing to do with matrilineality; the people were matrilineal from the beginning) remained matrilineal.
	bantwal.blogspot.com /2006/03/origins-of-malayalees.html (850 words)

	The Beary Page
		While retaining their distinct cultural identity, they have evolved as an integral part of Tulu Nadu, writes B M HANIF, on the eve of their conference in Bangalore.
		The Bearys evolved into a distinct community incorporating the Tulu language and culture and taking in the diverse traditions of the Moplahs.
		Interestingly, the Konkanis refer to Mangalore as Kodyal, the Urdu- speaking people as Koudal, while in Tulu it is known as Kudla.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/4346/beary.htm (1302 words)

	Kerala - Gateway To Paradise ( Kerala History, Kerala Society, Kerala Culture,
		It was dur-ing this time that Mayura Sarman, the Kadamba king, invited large colonies of Brahmins from North India and settled them in the Tulu and Kerala countries.
		According to one tradition, six outstanding Brahmin scholars came with the immigrants as their spokesmen, defeated the Buddhists in public debates, and established the intellectual supremacy of Hinduism.
		They came after the eighth century from Tulu Nadu in the north and Tamil Nadu in the east in search of better employment opportunities at the invitation of royal patrons and local temples who preferred Brahmin teachers, administrators, and priests.
	www.kerala.cc /keralahistory/index12.htm (849 words)

	Britannica Article on Dravidian
		Dravidian languages are spoken in India (mainly in its southern, eastern, and central parts), in Sri Lanka (Ceylon), and in diaspora communities in S.E. Asia, Pacific Islands, eastern Africa, and elsewhere.
		Telugu (spoken by 52,986,000 people), the official language of the state of Andhra Pradesh, exhibits a dichotomy between the written and the spoken styles, in addition to a number of sharply distinct local and regional dialects (including Telangana, coastal area, Rayalaseema, and a “transitional” zone) and divisions between Brahmin, nonBrahmin, and Harijan speech.
		The Kannada—Telugu script is based on Calukya (6th century) inscriptions; the Grantha script, used in Tamil Nadu for Sanskrit since the 6th century, was accommodated for Malayalam and Tulu.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/sars238/shortencybrit.html (3071 words)

	bunt_(caste) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bunts are mostly found in the Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts of Karnataka, the Kasaragod district of Kerala and in Mumbai.
		They share Tulu nadu with other prominent religious, caste and ethnic groups like the Billavas, Mogeras, Brahmins, Konkanis, Catholics and Jains.
		PaÄd-danÄas are songs rendered in Tulu language, describing the origin and the deeds of the holy spirits.
	www.killspywarenow.com /wiki/?title=Bunt_(caste) (511 words)

	South India (south india resources) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sivakasi and Tirupur in Tamil Nadu are 100% employed towns, among a few towns in India.
		More information on the economy of Tamil Nadu can be found here Whether or not the existing proto Dravidian culture was supplanted by invading Aryan nomads during the twilight of the Indus Valley Civilization or whether they simply coexisted and eventually merged to form another culture is a subject of heated debate to this day.
		The mundu is known as veshti in Tamil Nadu, while in Kerala a veshti is a small piece of cloth (generally put on the shoulders) along with a mundu, for formal occasions.
	1993.en.xanax-buy.be /en/South+India (11405 words)

	AHIMSA TIMES - NOVEMBER 2005 ISSUE - www.jainsamaj.org
		"The earliest extant religious vestiges in Tamil Nadu are the natural caverns which once served as the abodes of Jaina monks, found in some of the hills in Tirunelveli, Madurai, Pudukottai, Periyar, Trichy, South Arcot and North Arcot districts.
		These caves which are found amidst picturesque surroundings had been resorted by mendicants who resolved to spend their lives in splendid isolation, engaging themselves in contemplation and religious pursuits.
		The early Jains caves in Tamil Nadu are important for several reasons.
	jainsamaj.org /magazines/november2005-3.htm (1964 words)

	Brahmin, brahmana, caste, tribe, gotra, rishi, ritual, india, hindu, religion, Mana Sanskriti (Our Culture), Issue 69
		In Tamil Nadu they form less than 3 percent and in Andhra Pradesh they are less than 2 percent.
		While Udupi is the religious center of Tulu nadu, Mangalore is the commercial hub.
		Here Tulu language, one of the five main Dravidian languages of the South, with its extinct script is spoken.
	www.vepachedu.org /manasanskriti/Brahmins.html (9287 words)

	Places of India
		The Bunts of Tulu Nadu by Neria Harish Hebbar, MD The Chambal Valley - Attractions Forever by Suniti Chandra Mishra
		The Eight Tulu Monasteries of Udupi by Neria Harish Hebbar, MD The Hidden Beauty of Orchha by Suniti Chandra Mishra
		Tulu Language : Its Script and Dialects by Neria Harish Hebbar, MD Tulu Nadu : The Land and its People by Neria Harish Hebbar, MD The Old Fort by Ragini Puri
	www.boloji.com /places (335 words)

	Kakkilayas Of Bevinje: The History of Shivalli Brahmins
		32 of them were in Tulu Nadu, 32 in Malayalam speaking region and 3 in Haiga.
		The term Tulu Nadu is supposedly derived from the word Tula Bhara (Tula = Weighing Scale, Bhara = Weight), a custom in this region wherein commodities are weighed against the weight of the concerned person.
		Brahmins who were appointed in the Western Kootaka (or Kota) village came to be known as Kota Brahmins (Hande, Hebbara, Herala, Holla, Karantha, Navada, Basri and Mayya are the eight renowned Kota Brahmin families).
	www.kakkilaya.com /shiva1.html (320 words)

	Coming of the Aryans and the Brahmins into Kerala: People and Culture: by Dr. Zacharias Thundy surveys Kerala's ...
		It was dur-ing this time that Mayura Sarman, the Kadamba king, invited large colonies of Brahmins from North India and settled them in the Tulu and Kerala countries.
		According to one tradition, six outstanding Brahmin scholars came with the immigrants as their spokesmen, defeated the Buddhists in public debates, and established the intellectual supremacy of Hinduism.
		They came after the eighth century from Tulu Nadu in the north and Tamil Nadu in the east in search of better employment opportunities at the invitation of royal patrons and local temples who preferred Brahmin teachers, administrators, and priests.
	www.shelterbelt.com /KJ/kharyans.html (1508 words)

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