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Kota in India

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Map source: People Group data: Omid. Map geography: UNESCO / GMI. Map Design: Joshua Project

Population ^[2]	Language	Religion	% Christian	% Evangl	Online NT	Jesus Film	Progress
800	Kota	Hinduism	1.81 %	Unknown	No	No

Kota in India

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Text source: Indian Christian Revival Mission, Mysore Introduction / History Kota is one of the 19 indigenous people groups in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu, India. Their population is relatively small. The total population recorded in 2010 is 1,972. They live only in seven villages scattered around the Nilgiris district. What are their beliefs? Few Kotas have shown interest towards the gospel. Since the late 1840s the gospel was introduced to them by Basel German Evangelical Mission. The Church of England, the Zenana Missionary Society and (from 1935) Freewill Baptist missionary Miss. Laura Belle Barnard, from the U.S. focused to reach this particular people group around Kotagiri in the Nilgiris district. Though missionaries and Christian workers tried their best to present Christ for the past 175 years through various ways and means, the Kotas have been mostly unresponsive to the gospel. View Kota in all countries.
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11 (, 1 = highest persecution ranking)

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Population in Country:

800

Largest States:

Tamil Nadu (500)	Karnataka (200)
Kerala (100)	Telangana (50)

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Kota

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Alternate People Names:

Kohatur	Kotar
Koter	Kotha
Kuof	कोटा

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Population in Country:

800

Population all Countries:

Yes

Ethnicity

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Primary Language:

(200 Speakers)

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Secondary Languages:

Kannada (200)	Tamil (200)
Telugu (80)	Tulu (40)
Malayalam (40)	Kodava (Unknown)
Marathi (Unknown)	Bengali (Unknown)

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Religion ^[4]

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Primary Religion:

Buddhism	0.00 %
Christianity	1.81 %	(Evangelical: Data not available)
Ethnic Religions	0.00 %
Hinduism	98.05 %
Islam	0.00 %
Non-Religious	0.00 %
Other / Small	0.00 %
Unknown	0.14 %

Christianity Segments:

Anglican	0.00 %
Independent	0.00 %
Protestant	0.00 %
Orthodox	0.00 %
Other Christian	0.00 %
Roman Catholic	0.00 %

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Level 1 Less than 2% Evangelical. Some evangelical resources available, but no active church planting within past 2 years

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None Reported

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