He was sitting at the door and took almost an hour to complete his ritual.
He visited us after 3 years. I requested him to show our family records preserved with him. He had the record from 1226 saka calendar or 1304 AD.
It was very interesting to notice how our family had migrated to different locations due to war and natural disasters.
I was thrilled to see my name and the names of my children as well in his records
Helavaru community, a unique semi-nomadic tribe credited to have maintained documents containing genealogy of several families in 10 districts of Karnataka – Belgaum, Dharwad, Bijapur, Bagalkot, Haveri, Gadag, Bellary, Uttara Kannada, Davangere and Chitradurga.
The term Helava is reported to have been coined from "heluvava" meaning "he who speaks". It is believed that Helavas started practicing from the days of Basavanna, a 12th century social reformer who rebelled against caste hierarchy and gender discrimination. Ever since, they have carried on the
practice of visiting households and narrating ancestral bloodlines in a lyrical fashion.
Helavas' distinctive profession probably makes them the only tribe in India that has sustained the recitation of family histories for centuries. Despite odds, they carry on, with the hope that some of their offspring would continue the tradition.
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