Bangalore Karaga - Thigalas and Bengaluru Geography

Thigalas and Bengaluru Geography

The Karaga, which cuts across religious lines, has been linked with the Tigala community since the 16th Century.

The central part of Bengaluru’s Thigala population is called Thigalara peytey (proncounced “pay-tay“; Thigala's market). Based on their heritage story, they built temples to Draupadi and Dharmaraya (another name for Yudhishthira, the eldest of the five Pandava brothers in the Mahabharata).The most important of these temples are in Thigalara-peytey.

The Thigala cultivated vast nurseries in Bengaluru and a ring of outlying fortified towns but nobody today cares to re-examine their traditional concepts of urban planning.

It is learnt that there are forty lakhs people living throughout the state it is noted Kolar, Bengaluru, Tumkur districts are thickly populated urban and rural districts. Basically this community depends upon agricultural and horticultural activities.