Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Migration from Mysore -- 2 Place-Names and Cultural Ecology -- 3 Social Groupings -- 4 Traditional Interchange (1) -- 5 Traditional Interchange (2) -- 6 Early Patterns of Trade -- 7 Growth of the Cash Economy -- 8 Administration and Law -- 9 A Period of Stress -- 10 Religious and Social Change in the Twentieth Century -- 11 Summary and Conclusion -- APPENDIX 1 Population of the Main Nilgiri Communities, 1961 -- APPENDIX 2 Badaga Population Growth Compared with that of Todas and Kotas -- Plate Section -- References* -- General Index -- Name Index -- Place-name Index