whereas women dye the yarn and spin the thread and children assist tasks such as looming. They are also very good entrepreneurs and expert in marketing of clothes. Some of them are also engaged in farming. Notable people P. Theagaraya Chetty - T.Nagar is a locality in Chennai which is named after him. Prem Kumar Rajesh Kumar - Tamil Crime Novelist Devar Dasimayya - Famous Eleventh Century Kannada Poet was praised by Basava K. Narayan - Member of parliament, Mangalore, Rajya Sabha Chandan Shetty - Music Composer Sri Dhayananthapuri Swamiji - Hampi, Karnataka Umashree - Kannada actress and politician Punishment for inter-caste marriage In 2004, the Devanga leaders of a small village in Belagur, Chitradurga district, Karnataka, fined and socially excluded ten families from the community for marrying people outside the caste. The decision was criticised and alleged to be unconstitutional but a similar thing happened to five families in Shivani village, Ajjampura, Chikmagalur district in 2011. References Further reading Social groups of Karnataka Social groups of Andhra Pradesh Social groups of Tamil Nadu Indian castes Weaving communities of South Asia