Mekku Nadu
Matrimony for families from Bellada, Mekku Nadu
Bellada is a Badaga hatti in the Mekku Nadu seeme of the Nilgiri hills. Nanga Madhuvae lists it in the hatti reference and uses it to check ooru and seeme rules before a match is ever shown.
- Seeme
- Mekku Nadu
- Listed in the master list as
- Bellada
- Position in Mekku Nadu
- 11 of 81
- Hattis in Mekku Nadu
- 81
Bellada is a hatti in the Mekku Nadu seeme. It carries no Mel/Kil prefix, no ooru or kore marker and no recorded alternate spelling — the name stands on its own, which is the ordinary case for a long-established hatti.
It is listed 11th of the 81 hattis the reference carries under Mekku Nadu — the reference is alphabetical within a seeme, so that is the page it would be on in print. A name carrying no structural marker is usually an older settlement, one that predates the subdivisions the other names record.
Is your family from a different Bellada?
The reference carries this name more than once. Those are separate villages with separate ooru positions — the source flags the overlap rather than resolving it, so it is worth checking which one is yours.
Hattis with a similar name
Villages named from the same stem are often related by migration or by a shared ancestor, which makes them a plausible place for a family connection to have come from.
Is your family from a different Bellada?
Hattis with a similar name
What is Bellada?
Bellada is a Badaga hatti in the Mekku Nadu seeme of the Nilgiri hills. Nanga Madhuvae lists it in the hatti reference and uses it to check ooru and seeme rules before a match is ever shown.
Which seeme is Bellada in?
Bellada is a Badaga hatti in the Mekku Nadu seeme of the Nilgiri hills. Nanga Madhuvae lists it in the hatti reference and uses it to check ooru and seeme rules before a match is ever shown.
How does a hatti affect matchmaking?
Nanga Madhuvae checks hatti and ooru rules before a profile is ever shown, so a match that reaches you has already cleared the bloodline restrictions your family would apply.
Where this information comes from
The hatti list is compiled from the “Badaga Hattis by Seeme” master list, itself drawn from Nakku Betta magazine (late 1970s, ed. K.H. Madha Gowder) by Wg Cdr Bellie Jayaprakash, with community corrections layered on. Entries are still being validated with elders in the community, so a spelling or a seeme may yet be corrected. If you know this hatti better than this page does, we would rather hear from you.
Looking for a match from Bellada?
Nanga Madhuvae checks hatti and ooru rules before a profile is ever shown, so a match that reaches you has already cleared the bloodline restrictions your family would apply.