Ahir clans in Karnataka:


Kuruba Shepherds of Karnataka
The word Kuruba means "warriors" and "trustworthy people." The word "Kuru" means "do or seek" in Sanskrit, and "Kuruhu" means "trust" in Kannada. "Kuruba" can be inferred to mean "doers" or "trustworthy (male person)". Kuruba can also be inferred to mean "seeker of knowledge": kuru (seek), bha (knowledge, light).
Kadu Kurubas.
The term Kadu Kuruba has got an etymological importance. If one dissects the term , one can find that in the Kannada language , Kadu signifies forest and Kuruba stands for tribal community. Thus Kadu Kuruba constitutes of the people residing in forest areas, as a whole. These Kadu Kuruba tribes are one of the sub castes of the famous Kuruba tribal community. Cultural excellence is widely being depicted in all its aspects like dance, language, religion, festival etc.
Over the years, this Kadu Kuruba tribal community have adapted to diverse occupational activities. The common practice is that in all the famous temples like Beeralingeshwara and Milaralingeshwara ,all the priests that are being duly appointed belong to this Kadu Kuruba tribal community. If one can go back to the golden pages of the history of the Indian subcontinent, one can find the names of these Kadu Kuruba tribes over there also.
Maximum of these Kuruba tribes had proved their excellence as great soldiers and had even flourished many primeval kingdoms such as the Hoysala kingdom in Karnataka and Pallava kingdom of Tamil Nadu. In fact all these Kadu Kuruba tribal community reached their pinnacle of affluence between the time period of AD.1300 to AD.1600 under the impact of the famous Vijayanagara Empire. In the beginning of the 1970s, when this Kadu Kuruba tribal community was evicted from their original homeland of the forests, they were enforced to reside on the wayside or plantations on the border. These indigenous people are devoid of land rights and stay marginalized even today.

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