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Virajpet, Sep. 11: The Karnataka state government will conduct a caste census of the entire population of the state from September 22 to October 7. The Kodava community must record their religion and caste as ‘Kodava’ without fail and must cooperate by providing their other information clearly and without any mistake when the enumerators visit their homes.
In a press release in this regard, he clarified the stand of the parent organization, All Kodava Samaj, on behalf of the Kodava community and recalled that before independence, the Kodava community used to record their religion/religion and caste as ‘Kodava’. After independence, unseen hands, which were not aware of the community, conspired to change the religion of the Kodava people to Hindu, which is a blow to the Kodava people. It is high time to rectify this, he said.
Although the Kodava people have been influenced by the religious practices of the people around them and Hindustan in the last few centuries, they have preserved their special cultural traditions. The Kodava people do not have the traditions of Saptapadi and Tali performed by priests in their marriage ceremonies, and they are a unique/different community that adheres to the tradition of worshipping their ancestors as “Gurukarona”.
The President of the Akhil Kodava Samaj said in his statement that the Kodava people have preserved and cultivated a rational, rational, and reverent nature, customs, rituals, language, dress, and culturally appropriate customs and behavior that are not seen in any other ethnic group, and that there is no need for any other confirmation to recognize that the Kodava people are a special tribal community living on their own religious foundation in the world.
Keeping these issues in mind, the entire Kodava community is requested to participate in the census and cooperate by providing clear information. Therefore, the State Government has been requested to make appropriate changes in the design of the census application/software computerized application keeping in mind this demand/necessity of the Kodava community, he said.
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