One of the main indigenous groups of this district are called Tuluva, probably from the word Tulavu which in Tulu language means - to row (the boat), since most of the early settlements of Tuluvas were on the banks estuary or rivers. It is impossible to state at what period this name was introduced; but it is certain that it came into existence only after the coastal strip of Canara was reclaimed from the sea and populated. The people who first settled here were called Tuluvas. Since very little research has been done about the prehistory of Canara, it is difficult to know who the earliest inhabitants of Tuluva were. Tuluvas probably migrated to this region from North western India around 1500 B.C.
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[SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karavali#History]
