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Billava
The Billava, Billoru, Biruveru or Ilava people are an ethnic group of India. They are found traditionally in Karnataka and some parts of Kerala, including Kasaragod district. Traditionally engaged in Toddy tapping, cultivation and other activities, they have used both missionary education and Sri Narayana Guru's reform movement to upgrade themselves.
==Etymology and origins==
L. K. Ananthakrishna Iyer recounted the community's belief that ''billava'' means ''bowmen'' and that it "applied to the castemen who were largely employed as soldiers by the native rulers of the district".〔 Edgar Thurston had reached a similar conclusion in 1909.
The Billavas are first recorded in inscriptions dating from the fifteenth century AD but Amitav Ghosh notes that "... this is merely an indication of their lack of social power; there is every reason to suppose that all the major Tuluva castes share an equally long history of settlement in the region". The earliest epigraphy for the Tuluva Bunt community dates to around 400 years earlier.
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