The Badaganadu are a Brahmin community that mainly reside in Karnataka and in Tamil Nadu. They are followers of either the Advaita Vedanta propounded by Adi Shankara or the Dvaita Vedanta propounded by Madhvacharya and hence there are Smarthas and Madhwas among them.[1][2]
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- ^ Kumar Suresh Singh (1998). India's Communities, Volume 6. Oxford University Press. p. 2044. ISBN 9780195633542.
In Tamil Nadu, the Madhwa Brahmins are migrants from Karnataka. They have six sub-groups, they are Aruvela, Aruvanththuvakkalu, Badaganadu, Pennaththurar, Prathamasaki and Desastha and Badaga. They are concentrated in the Madras, Coimbatore, Coonoor and in Ooty.
- ^ Census of India, 1961, Volume 11, Issue 6, Part 16. Office of the Registrar General Manager of Publications. 1970. p. 6.
Among the Badaganadu families, seven happen to be the Shavites and followers of Shankaracharya while the other one is a Madhwa and followers of Madhwacharya. Marriage between these two sects is permissible.