![]() Several dozen doctors, engineers, and architects have recently settled with their families in America. A few households can boast cars and imported videotape players. Although still largely a rural population, they have as high a rate of literacy (in Tamil and English) as the inhabitants of Madras City. Badaga doctors, lawyers, teachers, and government officials are very plentiful, and there are also a few professors, agronomists, and politicians. ![]() Although the majority of Badagas are still small-scale farmers, there is now a sizable middle class living in the four main British-built towns on the plateau, and the community can boast several thousand college graduates. The district area is 2,549 square kilometers, about the same as the state of Rhode Island. The Badagas occupy only the small Nilgiris District at the junction of Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu states, but they share their territory with many other tribal groups and an even larger number of fairly recent immigrants from the plains of south India.
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