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Tr ac aci ng ng tr ad adi titional r oo oots of Tel ug ugus settl ed ed in Tam ilil Nadu - The Hi nd ndu
Today's Paper » NATIONAL Published: July 8, 2012 00:00 IST | Updated: July 8, 2012 04:29 IST
Tracing traditional roots of Telugus settled in Tamil Nadu S. Vijay Kumar esearcher uses folk narratives to plot the map of their origin
Sagili Sudharani.—Photo: K. Pichumani
Tracing the traditional roots of Telugus who migrated from their homeland centuries ago and settled in different parts of Tamil Nadu has become a passion for Sagili Sudharani of Hyderabad. When her research on “The folk narrative of diasporic Telugu women of Tamil Nadu” commenced in 2008, Ms. Sudharani’s guide Pulikonda Subbachary of Dravidian University, Kuppam, advised her to travel to as many districts as possible and meet Telugus settled there. While focusing on how the Telugus managed to preserve their cultural practices, Ms. Sudharani found that a majority of them had little knowledge about their roots or relatives. “The folk narratives had several clues about their origin. The stories/songs written centuries ago by their ancestors explained the features of forests, mountains, rivers and other terrains they traversed while migrating. For instance, the folk song of a family settled in Dindigul district clearly indicates that they originated from Karnataka and migrated during the Vijayanagar empire to reach Dindigul via Andhra Pradesh,” she said. The surnames were also useful in tracking the family connections in Andhra Pradesh. The Telugus have unique surnames that refer to a particular group of families or community. The surnames are maintained for generations. “In Tamil Nadu, the migrant Telugus are very conservative and marriages outside the community are restricted. Recently, a girl aged about 16, was married to her maternal uncle aged 50 because there was no other suitable groom.” Though the Telugus could manage to preserve their cultural practices and other rituals, their language took a beating. “Only the aged can speak some Telugu now…their children and grandchildren reply only in Tamil. Since schools in the State have made Tamil a compulsory language, there is not much scope for the migrant Telugu population scattered in different districts to preserve their language. About 90 per cent of Telugus cannot speak or write in their mother tongue. Even those who speak use many Tamil words.” The folk narratives that surface during special occasions have some Telugu words that are not used in modern literature. “Some families use words like ‘konthi’ (kothi) for monkey and ‘andathi’ (adathi) for women. I interacted with hundreds of Telugu families settled in over 200 villages in 16 districts,” Ms. Sudharani said. In Thanjavur, she said a group of Telugus settled in Salyamangalam, Then Perumal Nallur and Melattur villages celebrated a festival every year on the ‘Vaisakha Pournami’ day. Hundreds of their relatives settled across India and abroad come to the village on that day to participate and perform in events like ‘Yaksha Gana Pradarsana’ in which skits on Telugu mythological stories like ‘Bhaktha Prahhalada’ are played. Such occasions are also used to fix alliances. Even as her Ph.D. is complete, Ms. Sudharani wants to continue her efforts to help the Telugus settled in the State to http http:/ ://www. /www.th theh ehind indu. u.co com/t m/tod oday ays-pa s-pape per/t r/tp-n p-nat ation ional/ al/tra tracing cing-tra -tradit dition ional-ro al-root ots-of s-of-te -telug lugus us-set -settle tled-in d-in-ta -tamil-nad mil-nadu/ u/art article3 icle361 6149 4947 47.e .ece ce?c ?css=p ss=print rint
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