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Nilgiri Hills
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| Nilgiri Hills | |
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| Presidency: Madras | |
| Coordinates: | 11.375°N 76.758333°E |
| Altitude: | 24 peaks above 2,000m (6,600 ft) |
| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Nilgiri Hills |
| State/Province: | Tamil Nadu |
| Country: | India |
| Transport links | |
| Nilgiri Mountain Railway | |
Nilgiri Hills was an administrative district of Madras Presidency during the British period. Ootacamund is the main town.
Spelling variants
Nilgiri, Neilgherry, Nilagiri
Nilgiris, Neilgherries
FIBIS Resources
- 31 Inscriptions and images from Wellington Cemetery held on Fibis database.
Refer also
External links
Historical books online
- Letters on the Climate, Inhabitants, Productions, &c., &c., of the Neilgherries, or, Blue Mountains of Coimbatoor, South India by James Hough 1829 Google Books
- Observations on the Neilgherries by Robert Baikie MD 1834 Google Books
- Goa, and the Blue Mountains; or, Six months of sick leave by Richard F Burton, Lieut. Bombay Army 1851 Archive.org
- The Neilgherries: including an account of their topography, climate, soil and productions; and of the effects of the climate on the European constitution by Robert Baikie MD 1857 2nd edition, updated. Archive.org
- "Statistical Memoir of a Survey of the Neilgherry Mountains" Papers put in by Captain John Ouchterlony, Appendix No. 5, Report from Committees: Colonisation and Settlement (India) Third Volume, Part II. (also called Vol. VII-Part II) Session 3 December 1857-2 August 1858 [British Parliamentary Papers] Google Books.
- A Manual of the Nílagiri District in the Madras Presidency by H B Grigg 1880 Archive.org
- Nilgiri Sporting Reminiscences by an Old Shikarri [G. A. R. D. ie G A R Dawson] Google Books. Also available HathiTrust Digital Library where the images may be rotated.
- Guide To The Nilgiris 1905. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
- Madras District Gazetteers: The Nilgiris by W Francis 1908 Archive.org
- Sport on the Nilgiris and in Wynaad by F. W. F Fletcher 1911 Archive.org including
- Map of the Nilgiri District approximately page xx (towards the front of the book)
- "The Nilgiri Hills" page 190 Southern India Painted by Lady Lawler, Described by F E Penny 1914 Archive.org
- "The Nilgiris" by E A Helps pages 398-405 The Empire Review, catalogued as The Commonwealth & Empire Review, Volume 26, 1914. Archive.org
- The Nilgiri Guide and Directory by JSC Eagan 1916 Archive.org
- “The Nilgiri Hills” Chapter VIII, page 246 Memoirs Of A Camp- Follower by Philip Gosse. 1934. Some later editions were titled Memoirs of a Camp-Follower : a Naturalist Goes to War or A Naturalist Goes to War. The author was a doctor RAMC, who has served on the Western Front 1915-1917 and was then posted to India. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
- Horticultural and economic plants of the Nilgiris edited by S Krishnamurthi 1953 Archive.org. Includes Tea, coffee chinchona etc