Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Gōdāri
Gōdāri. — Recorded, in the Madras Census Report,1901, as Telugu leather-workers in Ganjam and Vizagapatam. They are stated, in the Vizagapatam Manual, to make and sell slippers in that district. Gōdāri is, I gather, a synonym of Mādiga, and not a separate caste.