Kanarese

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Kanarese

 

(self-designation, Kannadiga), a people in southern India; the major part of the population of the state of Mysore.

There are 22 million Kanarese (1970 estimate). They speak Kannada, a Dravidian language. Most of the Kanarese are Hindus, although there are also some Jains, Christians, and Muslims (the last only in the cities). The chief occupations of the Kanarese are farming (rice, millet, cotton, sugarcane), livestock raising (oxen, buffaloes, small cattle), handicrafts (pottery, wood carving), industrial labor, and work on coffee and other plantations.

REFERENCE

Narody Iuzhnoi Azii. Moscow, 1963. Pages 627—43

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