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The Tuluvas (Tulu
Tulu language

Tulu is a Dravidian languages language of India with fewer than two million speakers, known as Tuluvas. Most Tuluvas live in the districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi in the west of the state of Karnataka....
: ?????) are speakers of the Tulu language
Tulu language

Tulu is a Dravidian languages language of India with fewer than two million speakers, known as Tuluvas. Most Tuluvas live in the districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi in the west of the state of Karnataka....
. Since ancient times they have been spread through the northern Kasaragod
Kasaragod

Kasaragod is a town and a municipality in Kasaragod district in the Indian States and territories of India of Kerala. It is the administrative headquarters of Kasargod district....
, Dakshina Kannada
Dakshina Kannada

Dakshina Kannada , , is a coastal Districts of Karnataka in the states and territories of India of Karnataka in India. It is bordered by Udupi District to the north, Chikkamagaluru district to the northeast, Hassan District to the east, Kodagu District to the southeast, and Kasaragod District in Kerala to the south....
 and Udupi
Udupi

Udupi is a city and the headquarters of the Udupi District in the States of India of Karnataka. Udupi is famous for the Krishna temple located here....
 districts of Karnataka
Karnataka

Karnataka is a States and territories of India in the southern part of India. It was Unification of Karnataka on November 1, 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act....
, India. Today, there is a sizable Tuluva population in Mumbai
Mumbai

Mumbai— formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The city proper has approximately 14 million people and, along with the neighbouring suburbs of Navi Mumbai and Thane, Mumbai forms the World's largest urban agglomerations according to the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report with around 19...
  and elsewhere in the world, where they have migrated. In recent times, the first set of migration started at the beginning of the twentieth century to places like Mumbai
Mumbai

Mumbai— formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The city proper has approximately 14 million people and, along with the neighbouring suburbs of Navi Mumbai and Thane, Mumbai forms the World's largest urban agglomerations according to the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report with around 19...
(known then as Bombay) and Chennai (known then as Madras) and other parts of South India.






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The Tuluvas (Tulu
Tulu language

Tulu is a Dravidian languages language of India with fewer than two million speakers, known as Tuluvas. Most Tuluvas live in the districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi in the west of the state of Karnataka....
: ?????) are speakers of the Tulu language
Tulu language

Tulu is a Dravidian languages language of India with fewer than two million speakers, known as Tuluvas. Most Tuluvas live in the districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi in the west of the state of Karnataka....
. Since ancient times they have been spread through the northern Kasaragod
Kasaragod

Kasaragod is a town and a municipality in Kasaragod district in the Indian States and territories of India of Kerala. It is the administrative headquarters of Kasargod district....
, Dakshina Kannada
Dakshina Kannada

Dakshina Kannada , , is a coastal Districts of Karnataka in the states and territories of India of Karnataka in India. It is bordered by Udupi District to the north, Chikkamagaluru district to the northeast, Hassan District to the east, Kodagu District to the southeast, and Kasaragod District in Kerala to the south....
 and Udupi
Udupi

Udupi is a city and the headquarters of the Udupi District in the States of India of Karnataka. Udupi is famous for the Krishna temple located here....
 districts of Karnataka
Karnataka

Karnataka is a States and territories of India in the southern part of India. It was Unification of Karnataka on November 1, 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act....
, India. Today, there is a sizable Tuluva population in Mumbai
Mumbai

Mumbai— formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The city proper has approximately 14 million people and, along with the neighbouring suburbs of Navi Mumbai and Thane, Mumbai forms the World's largest urban agglomerations according to the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report with around 19...
  and elsewhere in the world, where they have migrated. In recent times, the first set of migration started at the beginning of the twentieth century to places like Mumbai
Mumbai

Mumbai— formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The city proper has approximately 14 million people and, along with the neighbouring suburbs of Navi Mumbai and Thane, Mumbai forms the World's largest urban agglomerations according to the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report with around 19...
(known then as Bombay) and Chennai (known then as Madras) and other parts of South India. The Tulu speaking Shivalli Brahmins
Shivalli Brahmins

Shivalli is a place near Udupi, in the state of Karnataka in southern India. Shivalli has been long famous for its proximity to the Sri Krishna Temple, located in Udupi and for Udupi itself....
 mostly migrated towards the south of Tulunadu to areas like Madras, Bangalore, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala etc and other Tuluvas towards the north of Tulunadu especially to Mumbai and surrounding areas like Thane
Thane

Thane is a city in Maharashtra, India, part of the Mumbai Conurbation, northeastern suburb of Mumbai at the head of the Thane Creek. It is the administrative headquarters of Thane District....
,Navi Mumbai
Navi Mumbai

Navi Mumbai , formerly known as 'New Bombay', is a city on the west coast of the state of Maharashtra, India. It was developed in 1972 as a twin city of Mumbai, and is one of the largest planned cities in the world, with a total area of 344 km? and 163 km? under the jurisdiction of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation....
 and Pune
Pune

Pune ,Pune is the administrative capital of Pune district and the 7th Metro city of India.Pune is known to have existed as a town since 937 AD....
.

The second set of migration started with World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 to escape rationing of food by the British. The third set of migration started after imposition of the Land Reform Act in the early 70's, when thousands of people lost their land to tenants. The fourth wave of migration especially to Bangalore
Bangalore

Bangalore , officially Bengaluru , is the capital of the Indian States and territories of India of Karnataka. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's List of most populous cities in India and List of most populous metropolitan areas in India....
 started with the IT boom in the late 1990s and 2000s. The migrants in this wave were educated skilled people required for the IT sector. There were two other waves of migration: one to the Gulf states mostly in the 1980s and 1990s. Another period of migration to the U.S.A followed the IT boom in India, particularly in Bangalore
Bangalore

Bangalore , officially Bengaluru , is the capital of the Indian States and territories of India of Karnataka. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's List of most populous cities in India and List of most populous metropolitan areas in India....
.

People

The majority of Tuluvas are Hindus. There are also a small percentage of Jain
Tulu Jains

Jains in South India are a minority community. They are one of the oldest communities in South India and a link to pre-Hindu past of South India....
s.

Prominent Tuluvas


  • Abbakka Rani
    Abbakka Rani

    Abbakka Rani or Abbakka Mahadevi was the queen of Tulunadu who fought the Portugal in the latter half of the 16th century. She belonged to the Jain Chowta dynasty who ruled over the area from the temple town of Moodabidri....
    , 16th century queen of Tulunadu
  • Devi Prasad Shetty
    Devi Prasad Shetty

    Devi Prasad Shetty is a philanthropist and a renowned cardiac surgery....
    , philanthropist
  • Veerendra Heggade
    Veerendra Heggade

    Dr. Veerendra Heggade is the eldest son of Ratnavarma Heggade and Rathnamma Heggade. Heggade became the the hereditary guardian of the Dharmasthala temple at the age of 20, on October 24, 1968 when he became the 21st Dharmadhikari of Shri Kshetra Dharmasthala....
    , philanthropist

Literature

  • Ratnakaravarni
    Ratnakaravarni

    Ratnakaravarni was a 16th-century Kannada poet and writer. He is considered to be one of the trailblazers in the native shatpadi and sangatya metric tradition that was popularised in Kannada literature during the rule of the Vijayanagara empire in modern Karnataka....
    , Kannada poet
  • Kayyara Kinyanna Rai
    Kayyara Kinyanna Rai

    Kayyara Kinyanna Rai is a Kannada poetry and Freedom fighters of India who was born and resides in the Kasargod district of the state of Kerala, India....
    , poet and activist
  • Bannanje Govindacharya
    Bannanje Govindacharya

    Shri Bannanje Govindacharya is one of the foremost Vedas in the world today . He hails from Bannanje locality of Udupi in Karnataka, India. He was born in 1936....
    , Vedic scholar
  • Dr. B. A. Vivek Rai, former Vice-Chancellor of Kannada University
    Kannada University

    IntroductionKannada University is a higher education university in Hampi, Karnataka set up in the year 1991. It was founded to develop the Kannada language and to promote the literature, traditions, culture, and folklore of Karnataka....
  • V. T. Rajshekar
    V. T. Rajshekar

    V. T. Rajshekar, in full Vontibettu Thimmappa Rajshekar, also known as V. T. Rajshekar Shetty, is a higher caste Indian journalist who is the founder and editor of the Dalit Voice, which has been described in a release by Human Rights Watch as "India?s most widely circulated Dalit journal"....
    , journalist


Health Care

  • Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty
    Devi Prasad Shetty

    Devi Prasad Shetty is a philanthropist and a renowned cardiac surgery....
    , philanthropist
  • Dr. M. Shantharam Shetty, director of Tejaswini Hospital, Mangalore
  • Dr. S. Chandrashekar Shetty, former Vice-Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences
    Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences

    Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, centered in Bangalore, India, is a unitary university set up in 1996 by the government of Karnataka, India, for the regulation and promotion of higher education in health sciences throughout the state of Karnataka....
     (1999-02)
  • Dr. S. Ramananda Shetty, current Vice-Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences
    Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences

    Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, centered in Bangalore, India, is a unitary university set up in 1996 by the government of Karnataka, India, for the regulation and promotion of higher education in health sciences throughout the state of Karnataka....
     (2008-11)
  • Dr. K. R. Shetty, neurologist


Politics

  • Janardhana Poojary
    Janardhana Poojary

    Janardhana Poojary is a senior politician from Indian National Congress party. He was a former Union Minister and Karnataka's Congress President....
  • Veerappa Moily
    Veerappa Moily

    Veerappa Moily was Chief Ministers of Karnataka of the Indian state of Karnataka. He was elected to Karnataka state legislative assembly from Karkala constituency of Udupi district....


Cartoonist

  • Prakash Shetty
    Prakash Shetty

    Prakash Shetty is a famous Indian cartoonist. He was born in Mangalore, Karnataka. He began cartooning in 1975 at the age of 15. He worked as a staff cartoonist for Kannada Publications....


Movies


Directors and Producers

  • Yograj Bhat
    Yograj Bhat

    Yograj Bhat is the celebrated director of box-office record shattering movie Mungaru Male, 2006.He has also rendered lyrics to several other movie songs from films like Gaalipata,Inthi Ninna Preethiya and Circus....
  • Shirish Kunder
    Shirish Kunder

    Shirish Kunder is an Indian editing and film director working in the Hindi Film Industry, also popularly known as Bollywood. He was born in Mangalore in 1973....
  • Manmohan Shetty
  • Santosh Rai Pathaje
    Santosh Rai Pathaje

    Santosh Rai Pathaje is an ace Cinematographer and Director of Kannada Film Industry, also known popularly as Sandalwood. He is the Cinematographer of many Kannada movies like Bhaava Bhamaida, Law and Order, etc....
  • Rohit Shetty
    Rohit Shetty

    Rohit Shetty is a Director, Presenter, and CinematographerHe is from South India, from the city of Mangalore.FilmographyDirector...


Actors
  • Aishwarya Rai
    Aishwarya Rai

    Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan born 1 November 1973 is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 1994....
  • Suniel Shetty
    Suniel Shetty

    Sunil Shetty is an Indian film actor and film producer who is mainly active in Bollywood. He was born in Mulki, India, near Mangalore.Sunil Shetty made his acting debut in the 1992 film Balwaan which was a moderate success....
  • Shilpa Shetty
    Shilpa Shetty

    Shilpa Shetty is an Indian film actor and Model . Since making her debut in the film Baazigar , she has appeared in nearly 40 Hindi, Tamil films, Telugu and Kannada language films, her first leading role being in the 1994 Aag ....
  • Shamita Shetty
    Shamita Shetty

    Shamita Shetty , is an Indian actress. She is the younger sister of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty....
  • Anushka Shetty
    Anushka Shetty

    Anushka Shetty is an actress in the Tollywood and Kollywood industries. She debuted in Akkineni Nagarjuna's Super , and her debut film in Tamil language was Rendu with R....
  • Sneha Ullal
    Sneha Ullal

    Sneha Ullal is a Bollywood, Tollywood and Kollywood film actress....
  • Prakash Rai
  • Jayamala
    Jayamala

    Jayamala is an actress of Kannada cinema. Her native is Dakshina Kannada district though brought up in chickmagalur district of Karnataka. She was popular in 1970's and 1980's....
  • Upendra
    Upendra

    Upendra is a Cinema of Karnataka director, actor and script writer. Born in a middle class family, Upendra started his career off with film director Kashinath as a writer and an assistant director....
  • Kashinath
    Kashinath

    Kashinath is an actor and a director in the Kannada film industry in Indian film. He has opened the door for other promising directors like Upendra, Manohar and Sunil Kumar Desai....
  • Vinay Rai
    Vinay Rai

    Vinay Rai born 18 September, 1979,is an actor who has appeared in prominent Tamil films as well as modelling and catwalking in noted fashion shows....
  • Sheetal Mallar
    Sheetal Mallar

    Sheetal Mallar is an Indian model from Mumbai. She won the Femina Look of the Year in 1994 beating Madhu Sapre and Elite Look of the Year, also in 1994....
  • Radhika
  • Shubha Poonja
    Shubha Poonja

    Shubha Poonja a new face in Kannada film film Industry.She first started her career in call centres and BPO and then worked at AOL .She is originally from Mangalore and is a Bunt....
  • Neethu Shetty
  • Vinod Alva
  • Sadashiva Salian
  • Ram Shetty


Music directors
  • Gurukiran
    Gurukiran

    Gurukiran or Gurukiran Shetty is a noted music director of the Kannada film industry in India. He started his career as a music director of the Kannada movie "A", directed and acted by Upendra....
  • Sandeep Chowta
    Sandeep Chowta

    Sandeep Chowta is an Indian Bollywood music director and head of Columbia Records in India. He has also sung some of his songs....

Science and Technology

  • Ajit Shetty
    Ajit Shetty

    Ajit, Baron Shetty is an Indians in Belgium businessman, who was born in Bangalore, India. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of Janssen Pharmaceutica, a pharmaceutical company and subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, with its headquarters in Beerse, Belgium....
    , CMD
    CMD

    CMD is a three-letter abbreviation that could mean, depending on context:* A common abbreviation for command * Canis Major Dwarf - galaxy orbiting the Milky Way....
     Janssen Pharmaceutica
  • Dr. Kalidas Shetty, Jefferson Fellowship recipient


Sports

  • Ravi Shastri
    Ravi Shastri

    Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri is a former Indian cricketer. He was an All-rounder who Batting right–handed and Bowling Left-arm orthodox spin....
     Ex Cricket Captain
  • Budhi Kunderan
    Budhi Kunderan

    Budhisagar Krishnappa Kunderan was an Indian cricket team cricketer. He played as a wicket keeper for the most of his career, and was an exciting but unorthodox right-handed batsman....
    , cricketer
    Cricket

    Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games team sport that originated in southern England. The earliest definite reference is dated 1598, and it is now played in more than 100 countries....
  • Ashish Kumar Ballal
    Ashish Kumar Ballal

    Ashish Kumar Ballal is a former captain of Indian field hockey team and recipient of Arjuna award. He was the captain of the team that won the Gold in Asian Games in 1998....
    , hockey player
  • Sathish Rai, weightlifter


See also


  • Tulu
  • Kasaragod Tulu
    Kasaragod Tulu

    Kasaragod Tulu is the variety of Tulu spoken in northern Kasaragod in the state of Kerala. This is the Southwest geographical dialect of Tulu....


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