About the Book
Where was the game of snooker invented? Which hills welcomed visits from Nikita Khrushchev, Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and also Edward Lear? Where did Maria Montessori, Madame Blavatsky and the Viceroys of India like to take their vacations? Where do tigers, bisons and elephants still roam the jungles? The answer in each case is the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India. Tennyson (though never there) wrote of 'the sweet, half-English air of the Neilgherries' -- and thousands have gone there to enjoy it over the past two centuries: Princes, tourists, scholars, missionaries, soldiers and officials alike. This book is a Who Was Who of those people, and a broad, neatly organised, completely up to date and uniquely detailed account of the Nilgiri Hills from every scientific perspective -- from Anthropology to Zoology.
Table of Contents:
Topics Indexed: Administration, Agriculture, Arts, Badaga People, Badaga Places, British Placenames, Church History, Communications, Daily Life, Demography, Economy, External Contacts, Family and Kinship, Fauna (Zoology), Geography, History, Homes and Properties, Irula People, Irula Places, Kota People, Kota Places, Kurumba Places, Linguistics, Literature, Local Products, Plantations, Prehistory, Religions, Sciences, Sports, Subregions, Subsistence, Toda People, Toda Places, Towns, Transportation, Urban Facilities, Vegetation (Botany), Wainad People, Wainad Places, Welfare, Who Was Who: Administrators & Politicians, Anthropologists, Artists, Businessmen, Conservationists, Explorers, Linguists, Military Men, Natural Scientists, Planters & Farmers, Psuedonyms or Nicknames, Reformers & Activists, Sportsmen, Writers
