Idiga (original) (raw)
Edigas or Idigas is a Hindu toddy tapper community in Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The traditional occupation of Idiga people was that of toddy tapping. They are mostly concentrated in the Malenadu and Shivamogga districts. Similar but culturally distinct toddy tapping communities, called the Billava and Deevaru, exist in Dakshina Kannada and southern Karnataka, respectively. There had been attempts to cause these various communities to cohere politically but these had petered out by the 1980s.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:abstract | Edigas or Idigas is a Hindu toddy tapper community in Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The traditional occupation of Idiga people was that of toddy tapping. They are mostly concentrated in the Malenadu and Shivamogga districts. Similar but culturally distinct toddy tapping communities, called the Billava and Deevaru, exist in Dakshina Kannada and southern Karnataka, respectively. There had been attempts to cause these various communities to cohere politically but these had petered out by the 1980s. The Idiga were categorised as an Other Backwards Class (OBC) in the 1980s, when they constituted around 2.5 per cent of the population in Karnataka. Despite their low numbers, eleven Idiga people were elected as Members of the Legislative Assembly in the 1985 elections, making them the largest single OBC group in the Legislative Assembly of Karnataka. They had six Members in 1978 and eight in 1983. They remain a significant political force and were described as a part of the AHINDA bloc that significantly helped the Indian National Congress party in the 2013 Assembly elections. Significant number of Idigas have become very wealthy and powerful by extending their involvement in toddy tapping to that of excise contracting, distilling and brewing on contract to large businesses, but the economic base of the community remains limited mostly to that of liquor. Idigas of Neeravari Pradesh of Karnataka own large number of fertile land making them earn large source of income. Politicians such as Sarekoppa Bangarappa, themselves of the toddy-tapping community, have been able to use the support of these prosperous people. Idiga also practised bone-setting and, together with some members of the Vokkaliga community, are relatively dominant in that field. The Kannada-language Prajavani newspaper was founded by an Idiga liquor contractor who had "made some money in the war" and, as of 1997, was still controlled by his descendants. (en) |
| dbo:language | dbr:Telugu_language dbr:Kannada |
| dbo:populationPlace | dbr:Andhra_Pradesh dbr:Telangana dbr:Karnataka |
| dbo:religion | dbr:Hinduism |
| dbo:wikiPageExternalLink | https://archive.org/details/floweringtreeoth0000rama https://archive.org/details/floweringtreeoth0000rama/page/198 |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 6821423 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 6385 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1093584941 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbr:Prajavani dbr:Sarekoppa_Bangarappa dbr:2013_Karnataka_Legislative_Assembly_election dbr:Bonesetter dbr:Member_of_the_Legislative_Assembly_(India) dbr:Andhra_Pradesh dbr:Malenadu dbr:Palm_wine dbc:Social_groups_of_Karnataka dbc:Brewing_and_distilling_castes dbr:Dakshina_Kannada dbr:Hinduism dbr:Telangana dbr:Telugu_language dbr:AHINDA dbr:Kannada dbr:Karnataka dbr:Billava dbr:Indian_National_Congress dbr:Shimoga dbr:Toddy_tapping dbr:Vokkaliga dbr:Legislative_Assembly_of_Karnataka dbr:Other_Backwards_Class |
| dbp:group | Idiga (en) |
| dbp:languages | dbr:Telugu_language dbr:Kannada |
| dbp:popplace | dbr:Andhra_Pradesh dbr:Telangana dbr:Karnataka |
| dbp:rels | dbr:Hinduism |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:Citation_needed dbt:Cite_book dbt:Efn dbt:Notelist dbt:Reflist dbt:Use_Indian_English dbt:Use_dmy_dates dbt:Infobox_Ethnic_group |
| dcterms:subject | dbc:Social_groups_of_Karnataka dbc:Brewing_and_distilling_castes |
| gold:hypernym | dbr:Community |
| rdf:type | owl:Thing wikidata:Q41710 yago:WikicatSocialGroupsOfKarnataka yago:Abstraction100002137 yago:EthnicGroup107967382 yago:Group100031264 dbo:EthnicGroup dbo:Settlement yago:SocialGroup107950920 umbel-rc:CommunityOrganization |
| rdfs:comment | Edigas or Idigas is a Hindu toddy tapper community in Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The traditional occupation of Idiga people was that of toddy tapping. They are mostly concentrated in the Malenadu and Shivamogga districts. Similar but culturally distinct toddy tapping communities, called the Billava and Deevaru, exist in Dakshina Kannada and southern Karnataka, respectively. There had been attempts to cause these various communities to cohere politically but these had petered out by the 1980s. (en) |
| rdfs:label | Idiga (en) |
| owl:sameAs | freebase:Idiga yago-res:Idiga wikidata:Idiga http://kn.dbpedia.org/resource/ಈಡಿಗ http://ta.dbpedia.org/resource/இடிகா http://te.dbpedia.org/resource/ఈడిగ https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4nczS |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Idiga?oldid=1093584941&ns=0 |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:Idiga |
| foaf:name | Idiga (en) |
| is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of | dbr:Ediga dbr:Deevaru |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:Sarekoppa_Bangarappa dbr:Mysore_State_Railway dbr:Puneeth_Rajkumar_filmography dbr:Shimoga_district dbr:Ediga dbr:Deevaru |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:Idiga |