Kadu Kuruba
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The Kadu Kurubas are the original inhabitants of the forests of Nagarahole and Kakanakote in the Western Ghats , Southern India . Kadu in kannada means forest and Kuruba is the tribe, Kadu Kurubas are the people living in forests.
[edit] History
After the fall of the pallava empire many kurubas settled down in south india as small land owners and farmers, some kurubas took to hiding in the forests of south india and adopted to a lifestyle in forest, they developed their own culture and traditions different from others due to their prolonged isolation.
[edit] Life Today
Forcible eviction of the Kurubas started in the early seventies. They were driven out of their ancestral lands deep inside the forest, and forced to live on the roadside or plantations on the periphery. These indigenous people lack land rights and are remain marginalised even to this day.
