Talk:Vokkaliga

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Hi, Too much emphasis on Kempe Gowda , when he has not done anything great apart from building the so called 4 towers in bangalore. It is not fair to emphasise too much on him or the other so called rulers of yelhanka which was just a small part of the mighty vijayanagar empire. Hi, I am a Kongu Vellalar and the creator of kongu Vellalar page.Thank u for noting the info and please do e mail to PONDHEEPANKAR@YAHOO.COM for more of our common heritage

[edit] Tamil origins?

Some families of Okkaligas might have been identified with Tamils. However, it is ridiculous to attest that origin to entire Okkaliga community in Karnataka. In fact, the title gowda could be found among Tuluvas too. Also, there is a small community of Gowdas in Tulu Nadu that speak Are Bhashe, a dialect of Kannada. If one observe South Dravidian language tree Tulu branched the earliest before Tamil-Kannada. So Gowdas or Okkaligas were there in Karnataka before their emergence in Tamil Nadu. I'm deleting such propagandist material from the article.

Manjunatha (17 Apr 2006)

This sentence has been in the article from a long time and is found in other reference materials in the internet. Although what you might be saying is partially or fully true. Before brading statements as Propagandist and unilaterally removing items. Please discuss or it will only lead to edit wars 64.201.162.1 19:42, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

“Gowda is a low ranking agriculturist caste group that typically exhibits the Dravidian socio-cultural characteristic of consanguineous marriage. It is believed to have moved in from the adjoining area of Tamil Nadu.”

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=515297RaveenS 13:39, 4 May 2006 (UTC)