Encyclopedia of the Nilgiri
Hills (Parts 1-2)
By- Paul Hockings
Where was the game of snooker
invented? Which hills welcomed visits from Nikita Khrushchev, Mahatma Gandhi,
Pandit Nehru and also Edward Lear? Where did Maria Montessori, Madame Blavatsky
and the Viceroys of India like to take their vacations? Where do tigers, bisons
and elephants still roam the jungles? The answer in each case is the Nilgri
Hills of Southern India.
Tennyson (though never there)
wrote of ‘the sweet, half-English air of the Neilgherries’ - and thousands have gone there to enjoy it
over past two centuries: Princes, tourists, scholars, missionaries, soldiers
and officials alike.
This book is a Who Was Who of
those people, and a broad, neatly organized, completely up to date and uniquely
detailed account of the Nilgri Hills from every scientific perspective - from Anthropology to Zoology.
The editor, Paul Hockings, teaches anthropology and
film history at United International College, in Zhuhai, China; Professor
Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of IIIinosis; Adjunct Curator of
Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History; and Editor-in-Chief of a
journal, Visual Anthropology.
ISBN 978-81-7304-893-7 2012 1068p. Rs.6000/Pounds
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