About the Book: The Nilgiri
They 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 deep recess in the high walls
of the plateau; and, still further west, the country known as the south-east
Wynaad, a table-land of