The book highlights how the numerically small Kodava community is unique and deserves the religious minority status to safeguard its culture, ancestral homes, sacred groves, traditional land tenure systems and customary laws, which have come under threat in the recent years due to ‘outsiders’ outnumbering the local population, triggered by ‘vote bank’ politics.
Mysuru: The newly-launched book ‘Are Kodavas (Coorgs) Hindus?’ by journalist P.T. Bopanna makes a strong case for a religious minority status for the Kodavas to safeguard their unique culture.
