Weblog of Wing Commander Bellie Jayaprakash
bjaypee@gmail.com
This website is dedicated to the memory of the Great Badaga Leader
Rao Bahadur H B Ari Gowder
We pay our homage on the 37th death anniversary
From ‘The Hindu’ & ‘Dinamalar’
Rao Bahadur H B Ari Gowder
[above] From the book ” A BADAGA - ENGLISH DICTIONARY ” by Prof.Paul Hockings and Christiane Pilot-Raichoor
Rao Bahadur H.B.Ari Gowder, the first Badaga graduate, first Badaga M.L.C & M.L.A for a long time who had brought many reforms in/to Badaga Community including ‘prohibition’ (no alcohol - kudi) to Nilgiris in British days itself. Ari Gowder lead the Indian contigent (yes, “INDIAN CONTIGENT) to World Scouts Jumboree held in Europe in the 1930s.
Being a great philanthrophist he had done a lot for the betterment of Badagas. He was the one who established Nilgiri Co-Op Marketting Society at Ooty, to save the small farmers-especially Badagas- from the exploits of middlemen & traders at Mandis in Mettupalayam. He was the President of NCMS for more than 30 years, till his death and NCMS was considered one of the best co-op societies in India during his days. His statue has been erected in the NCMS compound in appreciation of his great work.
Since he donated the land, the road in front of Mambalam Railway Station in Chennai (Madras) is named after him (known as Arya Gowder Street). Both were held in great esteem and considered as the ‘ Uncrowned King ‘ of Nakku Betta by Badagas.
A POSTAGE STAMP IS LIKELY TO BE RELEASED IN HIS HONOUR BY GOVERNMENT OF INDIA !
^The bridge built in 1939 connecting Tamil Nadu & Karnataka States, in Kakkanalla, Masinagudi (Gudalur), in the Nilgiris, is named after Rao Bahadur Ari Gowder. Enlargement of thr portion bearing his name given below
Rao Bahadur HJ Bellie Gowder, father of Ari Gowder the uncrowned ‘King of Nakku Betta’ Badaga leader
Rao Bahadur H.J.Bellie Gowder who was contracted by the British (Raj) to lay the Mettupalayam - Ooty ‘Nilgiri Mountain Railway ‘ (now World Heritage) more than a hundred years back.
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Rao Bahadur Bellie Gowder in dark suit with turban with British Engineers and workers at Bridge No.33 between Coonoor & Mettupalayam [photo taken about 100 years back]
Bellie Gowder was involved in laying the Nilgiri Mountain Raiway, now WORLD HERITAGE, a hundred years ago. He was conferred with the title RAO BAHADUR for carrying out the excellent but challenging contract work of building this unique railway system in inhospitable forest area that also involved in cutting tunnels through rocky hills as well as building many bridges with sheer guts. He employed human power to lift the racks & rails and remove the rocks and boulders. Many of his workers were BADAGAS who addressed Bellie Gowder as BELLIE MAISTRY
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No articles, images and other material in this website can be reproduced without the written permission of
Wing Commander Bellie Jayaprakash B.E.(GCT,Madras Univ).,M.B.A (FMS, Delhi Univ)
Contact : bjaypee@gmail.com
belliejayaprakash©2008
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Proud to be an Indian Proud to be a Badaga
Let us [Badaga] Dance Mele Kerioge
[above] From the book ” A BADAGA - ENGLISH DICTIONARY ” by Prof.Paul Hockings and Christiane Pilot-Raichoor
Rao Bahadur H.B.Ari Gowder, the first Badaga graduate, first Badaga M.L.C & M.L.A for a long time who had brought many reforms in/to Badaga Community including ‘prohibition’ (no alcohol - kudi) to Nilgiris in British days itself. Ari Gowder lead the Indian contigent (yes, “INDIAN CONTIGENT) to World Scouts Jumboree held in Europe in the 1930s.
Being a great philanthrophist he had done a lot for the betterment of Badagas. He was the one who established Nilgiri Co-Op Marketting Society at Ooty, to save the small farmers-especially Badagas- from the exploits of middlemen & traders at Mandis in Mettupalayam. He was the President of NCMS for more than 30 years, till his death and NCMS was considered one of the best co-op societies in India during his days. His statue has been erected in the NCMS compound in appreciation of his great work.
Since he donated the land, the road in front of Mambalam Railway Station in Chennai (Madras) is named after him (known as Arya Gowder Street). Both were held in great esteem and considered as the ‘ Uncrowned King ‘ of Nakku Betta by Badagas.
A POSTAGE STAMP IS LIKELY TO BE RELEASED IN HIS HONOUR BY GOVERNMENT OF INDIA !
^The bridge built in 1939 connecting Tamil Nadu & Karnataka States, in Kakkanalla, Masinagudi (Gudalur), in the Nilgiris, is named after Rao Bahadur Ari Gowder. Enlargement of thr portion bearing his name given below
Rao Bahadur HJ Bellie Gowder, father of Ari Gowder the uncrowned ‘King of Nakku Betta’ Badaga leader
Rao Bahadur H.J.Bellie Gowder who was contracted by the British (Raj) to lay the Mettupalayam - Ooty ‘Nilgiri Mountain Railway ‘ (now World Heritage) more than a hundred years back.
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Rao Bahadur Bellie Gowder in dark suit with turban with British Engineers and workers at Bridge No.33 between Coonoor & Mettupalayam [photo taken about 100 years back]
Bellie Gowder was involved in laying the Nilgiri Mountain Raiway, now WORLD HERITAGE, a hundred years ago. He was conferred with the title RAO BAHADUR for carrying out the excellent but challenging contract work of building this unique railway system in inhospitable forest area that also involved in cutting tunnels through rocky hills as well as building many bridges with sheer guts. He employed human power to lift the racks & rails and remove the rocks and boulders. Many of his workers were BADAGAS who addressed Bellie Gowder as BELLIE MAISTRY
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No articles, images and other material in this website can be reproduced without the written permission of
Wing Commander Bellie Jayaprakash B.E.(GCT,Madras Univ).,M.B.A (FMS, Delhi Univ)
Contact : bjaypee@gmail.com
belliejayaprakash©2008
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Ari Gowder's parents & my [Bellie Jayaprakash] grand parents - Rao Bahadur HJ Bellie Gowder & Nanji Hethe
Bellie Jayaprakash
Mookuthi
Chinna
Badaga Hattis (Villages)
