The Nilgiri Hills: A Kaleidoscope of People, Culture and Nature

by Paul Hockings (Ed.)

The year 2019 marked the bicentenary of British contact with the indigenous people of the Nilgiri Hills, in south India. This contact was initiated by John Sullivan, a local official from Coimbatore, who over a few years founded the town of Ootacamund from scratch.Interestingly, and contrary to many accounts of colonial expansion, there is no indication anyone here was harmed by the outsiders, let alone enslaved or killed. Thus south India's first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354423965
• ISBN13: 9789354423963
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: United Nations
• Length: 292 Pages