The mother tongue of Badaganadu community has been Kannada, and are largely spread around the northern parts of Karnataka, Bellary and Anantapur districts, Bangalore, Shivamogga, Chikkamagaluru, Davanagere, Chitradurga, Holenarasipura, Madhugiri, Tumkur and other parts of Karnataka.
Bangara Nayaka's Fort is Channarayana Durga which is atop the Channarayana Hill in the vicinity of the Madhugiri Betta near Tumkur in Karnataka.
Madhugiri Saroja A. Rao (1926 - 1985) was a professor of sociology who had been a founder-member in 1959 of the Department of Sociology at the University of Delhi, India.