Ballal

Ballal

Ballal (Ballala) is a surname mostly found in Udupi and Dakshina Kannada districts of Karnataka state, India. The surname is found in Jain, [citebook|title=Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions|author=Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom, Margaret A. Mills|year=1991|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|id=ISBN 0812213378] Bunt and Shivalli Madhwa Brahmins communities of these regions. Ballal was generally a surname of local kings or chieftains in Tulu Nadu. Ballal surname is also found in vidarbha region of Maharashtra. The surname is found in Deshastha Brahmins Community in this region.

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