Summary

The blue mountains of the Nilgiri in Tamil Nadu were once so densely forested, considered the region to be wild and impenetrable. However, the truth of the matter was actually Nature at her resplendent best with multiple eco-zones supporting a variety of forest cover and vegetation alive with a baffling range of creatures. Rivers and streams fed by springs and substantial rainfall watered region. On the lower slopes towards the adjoining Kerala lived the ancient hunting tribe of Moolukurumbas and the food gathering Paniyas, the tropical and sub-tropical moist evergreen forests were inhabited by the hunting and gathering Irulas and Kurumbas with the marginal forest dwellers know as the Kattunaichens, in the belt below the temperate and the artisan Kotas lived and in the high temperate grasslands the Todas established their settlements and grazed their buffalos.

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