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The Kotas of The Nilgiris – Part – I

October 29, 2016

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The Kotas of The Nilgiris – Part – I According to Dr. Oppert “it seems probable that the Todas and Kotas lived near each other before the settlement of the latter on the The Nilgiris. Their dialects betray a great resemblance. According to a tradition of theirs (the Kotas), they lived formerly on Kollimallai, a […]

Visualism – Key concept in Social and Cultural Anthropology

October 29, 2016

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It is perhaps ironical that at the same time as there has been an anthropological desire to deconstruct the central place given in the West to vision as a form of knowing (where ‘I see’ is synonymous with (‘I understand’) (cf. Ong 1969; Dias 1994), and to recognize an array of other senses and forms […]

Todas of the Nilgiri hills

October 7, 2016

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The language of the Todas of the Nilgiri hills, concerning which Dr. W. H. R. Rivers writes as follows. Bernhard Schmid, who wrote in 1837, appears to have known more of the true Toda language than anyone who has written since, and he ascribes two thirds of the Toda vocabulary to Tamil, and was unable […]

Paniyas : The unknown untouchables

September 27, 2016

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The Paniyar tribes of the Nilgris District are one of the worst sufferers of the over – run of their resources by the immigrants in their traditional habitat of Wayanad and adjoining Nilgiris (Tamil Nadu) and Coorg (Karnataka) areas. Numerically the Paniyars form the largest single tribe in Kerala. An understanding of the range of […]