Ancestral Villages
The Hebbar Iyengars are an immigrant Brahmin group from Tamil Nadu who settled in the Karnataka province, and their descendants formed themselves into five groups called Panchagrama, each being composed of five villages.
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“Odour of blood on the ancestral stair!
And we that have shed none must gather there
And clamour in drunken frenzy for the moon.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
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