Tulunad
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Tulunad, for Tulu-Nad or Nadu, is the country of the Tulu ethnic people.
Historically, Tulunad was the two separate lands of Haiva and Tuluva, located successively south of the Konkan, and considered part of the historic Greater Konkan or Konkanpatti along with the Malabar Coast or Kerala, which is immediately south of Tuluva.
According to Hindu legends, the Konkanpatti was land reclaimed from the sea by Parashuram, an avatar of Vishnu, by shooting arrows into the sea, and originally populated by people descended from seven corpses which he had found and whom he brought back to life.
Under Portugal, ruling from the port cities of Mangalore, etc., the region was called the Missao do Sul, or the Mission of the South. Tipu Sultan conquered the region and the British conquered it from him. Under the British, the region was organized as the Districts of North Canara and South Canara.
The name "Canara" is derived from the Kannadiga ethnic people, who do not naturally belong here, as this is the ethnic homeland of the Tulus.
The two districts were made a part of the Madras Presidency, but North Canara was later transferred to the Bombay Presidency. After Independence, the two Canaras were made part of Mysore State and now of Karnataka State. The name "Canara" has been Indianized as "Kannada", so that the districts are now Uttara Kannada and Dakshina Kannada.
The district of South Canara was recently bifurcated to create the District of Udipi.
There is an on-off movement among the Tulus for a Tulunad state, spearheaded by the now largely defunct Tulu Sena.
Tulunad was the original homeland of the dynasty that founded the Vijayanagar Empire based in eastern Karnataka.
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