The Nilgiris / W. Francis

Includes bibliographies and index

hey include detailed information about the inhabitants their way of life, habitats, customs, religious rites and rituals, festivals and indeed everything concerning them. This reprint of a District Gazetteer presents a beautiful picture of the picturesque region known as the Nilgiri Hills-properly Nila-giri, ‘the Blue Mountains’. The district Nilgiri includes, besides the great plateau, three widely different outlying tracts; namely a strip of malarias jungle skirting the northern foot of the plateau; the Ouchterlong Valley on the west, a deeprecess in the high walls of the plateau; and, still further west, the country known as the south-east Wynaad, a table-land of bamboo forest. The description of rivers and waterfalls; minerals-mica iron and gold; geological, botanical are the highlight of the book. Besides, it speaks highly of the people, agriculture occupation and trade; means of communication, public health, education, education, administration of justice and the local self-government of the district.