Adi Jambava
The Adi Jambava are an leather artisan Indian caste of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.[1] This hilly mountain tribe worships Rama, Shiva, Krishna, Adi Parashakti, Shiva, Matangi and Maramma remembrance of Jambavantha, they grow long beards and hair, wear ochre turbans, wear ashes and a horizontal shape on their foreheads known as Addagandha.[2]
They are also related to Madiga found in Karnataka state, India.[3] They are referred to as Jambava samaj.[4][5] The government of Karnataka has also launched a Separate Corporation Called Karnataka Adi Jambava Development Corporation for the uplift of the Adi Jambava community.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Adi Jambava corporation launched amid din made by different factions". The Hindu. 18 January 2019. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
- ^ L. Krishna Anantha Krishna Iyer (1928). The Mysore Tribes and Castes. Mittal Publications. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
- ^ Singh, Nagendra Kr. Global Encyclopaedia of the South Indian Dalit's (3 Vols. Set). Global Vision Publishing. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
- ^ Fuchs, Stephen (1981). At the bottom of Indian society:. Munshiram Manoharlal. p. 212.
- ^ Memoir, Issue 18 Anthropological Survey of India, 1973, page 194