The Kodagu district is famous for spicy pork curries ( pig curry ) while coastal Karnataka specializes in seafood.

Kodava Takk or Kodava takka, ( Kannada script: ಕ ೊ ಡವ ತಕ ್‌) is the original language of the south Karnataka district of Kodagu.

It is the primary language of Kodavas, but a large portion of other communities and tribes in Kodagu also use Kodava Takk.

Kodagu, also known by its anglicised former name of Coorg, is an administrative district in Karnataka, India.

Kodagu is well known in the world for coffee and its " brave warriors ", like Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa.

Madikeri ( English: Mercara ) is the headquarters of Kodagu.

Kodagu is home to the native speakers of Kodava language.

Map of South Indian states prior to the States Reorganisation Act, 1956. Kodagu ( then called Coorg ) is in dark green.

Kodagu is located on the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats.

The main river in Kodagu is the Kaveri ( Cauvery ), which originates at Talakaveri, located on the eastern side of the Western Ghats, and with its tributaries, drains the greater part of Kodagu.

Kodagu is part of the Mysore, Lok Sabha, parliamentary constituency.

Much of Kodagu is used for agriculture.

Kodagu is the second coffee production region in India, after the Baba Budangiri hills in Chikkamagaluru district.

The Coffea arabica variety is also grown in some parts of southern and western Kodagu, the historical area of coffee production.

Continuous weeding is required for the growth of good quality coffee. The coffee agro-forestry systems of Kodagu are one of the richest agro-forest in the world, with about 270 species of shaded trees inventoried ( see publications of CAFNET project ).

Kodagu is also known for its forest honey.

Kodagu is considered rich with wildlife and has three wildlife sanctuaries and one national park: the Brahmagiri, Talakaveri, and Pushpagiri Wildlife Sanctuaries, and the Nagarhole National Park, also known as the Rajiv Gandhi National Park.

It is the third least populous district in Karnataka ( out of 30 ), after Kodagu and Bangalore Rural.

* Kodagu style – this drape is confined to ladies hailing from the Kodagu district of Karnataka.

Kaveri rises in the Western Ghats of Kodagu ( Coorg ) District, in Karnataka, and is joined by many small tributaries.

It is located by Brahmagiri hill ( not to be confused with the Brahmagiri range further south ) near Bhagamandala in Kodagu district, Karnataka, 1, 276 m. above sea level.

Kodagu ( then called Coorg ), home of the Kodavas, is in dark green.

Kodagu: home of the Kodavas shown above in the map of Karnataka, India ( in orange )

The water is collected in bottles and reaches every home throughout Kodagu.

Areas that today comprise Karnataka were under as many as 20 different administrative units with the princely state of Mysore, Nizam's Hyderabad, the Bombay Presidency, the Madras Presidency and the territory of Kodagu being the most important ones.

During his campaigns in Kodagu, Tipu Sultan captured many Kodava men, women and children and took them as prisoners with him to Srirangapattana.

There are many spirits worshipped in Kodagu.

Traditionally all the members of an okka lived in a large ancestral Ainemane house ( ayyangada mane – House of the Elders ). The emergence of townships, as such, has been a relatively recent phenomenon and many of the main towns in Kodagu are inhabited by recent migrants and non-Kodavas.

Its range also includes Kodagu in Karnataka, Kodayar Hills in Tamil Nadu and many other hilly areas in Kerala and Tamil nadu.

Many of these communities have migrated into Kodagu from the Malabar Coast region during the period of Haleri Dynasty.

Kodagu has an average temperature of, ranging from, with the highest temperatures occurring in April and May.

Endangered as a culture and language and with the exploitation of the farms and forests of Kodagu, the indigenous Kodavas seek autonomy for Kodagu ; to be governed by a hill council consisting of their own elders like those existent in Ladakh ( Leh and Kargil ), Darjeeling and the North-east ( Bodoland, Karbi, Dima, Tripura, Meghalaya and Mizoram )

To the east the district is bounded by the Western Ghats, which forms the border with Karnataka State, in its district of Kodagu.

The Kodavas ( Kodava and, anglicised as Coorgs ) are a patrilineal ethno-lingual group from the region of Kodagu, in Karnataka state of southern India who traditionally were land-owning agriculturists with martial traditions and natively speak the Kodava language.

Under British protection, Kodagu became a State with nominal independence.

The separation of Tamil – Kannada occurred with the separation of Tulu and before the separation of Kodagu branch from South-Proto-Dravidian language, somewhere around 2000-1500 BC.

The domain of Kolathiri had at various periods roughly covered present-day Kasaragod and Kannur districts of Kerala, South India, along with some adjoining areas of Northern Kerala and Tulunadu, and some periods parts of Tamil Nadu, Kodagu and Mysore.

The Kodavas were the earliest agriculturists in Kodagu, having lived there for centuries.

Despite the Kodavas being known in India as " brave warriors " and members of the Indian warrior caste, Kodagu did not have indigenous rulers for long as the Kodavas failed to evolve political consensus.

Originally all Kodavas are from Kodagu and their ancestors were the indigenous people of the land.

The Kodavas of Karnataka maintained over 1000 sacred groves in Kodagu alone.

Per the indigenous theory, the Kodavas are the indigenous inhabitants of Kodagu who learnt and practised agriculture.

* An inscription dated 1174 AD found in Periyapatna mentions the Kodavas as being in the region of Kodagu at that time.

The Kodavas of Kodagu are Hindus ; they are polytheists who believe in reincarnation, revere the cow and originally worshipped the natural elements and their ancestors.

The descendants of the Kodavas who were, allegedly, forcibly converted into Islam, after Tipu Sultan's army on various forays into Kodagu had captured them and thrown them into the Srirangapatna prison, called Kodava Mappilas.

However Kodavas traditionally celebrate the following three main festivals peculiar to Kodagu alone ( two are cultural and one religious ):