Gowda (other)
Gowda may refer to: *Gowda (surname), a surname native to Karnataka, India * Vokkaliga, also known as Gowda, farming community in Karnataka **Tulu Gowda, a subsect of Vokkaliga from Karnataka, India * Arebhase Gowda a sub caste of Vokkkaliga from Karnataka, See also *Gouda (other) Gouda may refer to: * Gouda, South Holland, a city in the Netherlands ** Gouda (pottery), style of pottery manufactured in Gouda ** Gouda cheese, type of cheese originally made in and around Gouda ** Gouda railway station * Gouda, Western Cape, a ...

Gowda (surname)
Gowda (also known as Gauda, Gouda or Gonda) is a surname native to the Karnataka state of India. It is mainly found among the Vokkaligas, Namadhari Naiks, Billavas in south Karnataka and the Lingayats in north Karnataka. It is also used by Kurubas. Gowda was originally an honorific used by the administrative head of a village. Typically, such a head owned land and held political and social sway in the village. Among Kurubas, it was used to refer to the head of the community. Etymology According to historian Suryanath U. Kamath, the word ''Gowda'' derives from ''Gavunda''. The German Indologist Gustav Oppert opined that the root of ‘Gowda’ is a Dravidian word meaning "mountain". The term ''Gowda'' and its archaic forms in Old Kannada such as ''Gamunda'', ''Gavunda'', ''Gavuda'', ''Gonda'', appear frequently in the inscriptions of Karnataka. The ''Epigraphia Carnatica'' is replete with references to land grants, donations to temples, hero-stones (''Veeragallu''), stone e ...
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Vokkaliga
Vokkaliga (also transliterated as Vokkaligar, Vakkaliga, Wakkaliga, Okkaligar, Okkiliyan) is a community, or a group of closely-related castes, from the Indian state of Karnataka. They are also present in the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu. As a community of warriors and cultivators they have historically had notable demographic, political, and economic dominance in Old Mysore (region). It is believed by some historians that the Rashtrakutas:"The community of the land tillers or agriculturists was known as vokkaligas. The importance given to the cultivation of land is amply demonstrated by the fact that numerous tanks were dug and irrigational facilities were provided at various places. Some of the Rashtrakuta inscriptions found in the Banavasimandala carry the depiction of a plough at the top. There is a view that the Rashtrakutas were originally prosperous cultivators, who later on dominated the political scene. Some of the inscriptions refer to them as Kutumbinah which is inte ...
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Tulu Gowda
Tulu may refer to: People *Derartu Tulu (born 1972), Ethiopian long-distance runner *Walid Yacoubou (born 1997), Togolese footballer nicknamed "Tulu" India *Tulu calendar, traditional solar calendar generally used in the regions of southwest Karnataka and the Kasaragod district *Tulu cinema, part of the film industry in India *Tulu Gowda, a subsect of the Vokkaliga community in Karnataka *Tulu Kingdom, a small kingdom during the period of Puranas, now thought to be the Tulu-speaking areas in southwestern Karnataka *Tulu language, a language spoken in Karnataka and in the Kasaragod district *Tulu Nadu, a Tulu-speaking region spread over parts of present Karnataka state and the Kasaragod district *Tulu people, an ethnolinguistic group native to the coastal Karnataka region *Tulu script Tulu () in Kannada script, ml, ത‍ുള‍ു ഭാഷെ in Malayalam script. ''bhāṣe'', , ''bhāśe'', and ''bāśe'' are alternative spellings for the Tulu word ''bāse'' in the K ...
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