The Coorgies are a martial community concentrated in present-day Kodagu district of Karnataka.

It performed internal security duties in the Deccan area through March 1945.

With a fall in numbers, the unit now consists of soldiers from all four south Indian states.

[4][17] Despite the low number of recruits from Coorg in the present day, the unit maintains a lot of traditions linked to the community.

Kodagu is the birthplace of Cauvery, a river that local Kodavas consider sacred, and thus reflected in its war cry.