Their names means “northerner,” a reference to the fact that they came the plains of the Mysore district not too far to the north. The Badaga is a group that lives in the Nilgiri Hills where Kerala and Tamil Nadu come together. Source: Tribal Research Center in Udhagamandalam (Ooty)
“Ghat” is Hindi word describing a stairways that leads into river used in sacred bathing. The mountains run parallel to the west coast of India and provide a natural barrier between Kerala and Tamil Nadu and have helped make sure the cultures of these places are separate and distinct. The highest peaks range between 1,800 and 2,400 meters. The hills and mountains slope steeply to the west and more gradually to the east. The slopes are covered by forests, grasslands, small farms and tea, cardamon, coffee, cashew, pepper and rubber plantations. Western Ghats is a range of gentle green hills and low mountains that run for more than 1,600 kilometers along India’s southwestern coast. Sometimes called the "queen of hill stations," it is located at an elevation of at 7,200 feet in the Nilgiri Hills of Madras state and was founded in the early 19th century.Animals seen here among the thickly wooded hills, plateaus and deep valleys, include Asian elephants, tigers, leopards, wild dogs, chital, sambar, barking deer, mouse deer, wild boar, bonnet macaques, common langurs, giant squirrels, flying squirrels, monitor lizards, pythons, crocodiles, Malabar trogons, Malabar grey hornbills, great black woodpeckers, crested hawk eagles, crested serpent eagles, common scops owls, little scops owls, tiny eared owls, parakeets, cuckoo and lots of butterflies.
The main town in the area is Udhagamandalam (Ooty). The Kurmabs were employed for protection from sorcery from Other Kurumbas. The Badagas often traded cloth and food with the Kota, who supplied with music for funerals and thatching and carpentry and other services. Pniyans and Chettos on the surrounding hills. The Badaga, Toda, Kota and Kurumba tribes have traditionally relied on each other for different goods and services in a complex trade network. The steep slopes and the thick forests and high rates of malaria and other diseases that used to exist in the hills below kept these groups somewhat isolated from other groups. The Nilgiri Hills is home to some unusual tribal groups including the Toda, Kota, Badaga and Kurumba. The forests on the northern, leeward side are arid and scrubby. On the southern, windward side of the hills the forests are wet and lush. Over 80 percent of this rain falls during the monsoon season which runs from June to August. The Nilgiri Hills receive over 14 feet of rain a year, the second highest rate in India. The highlands are rolling grasslands with patches of temperate forest known as shoala. The Nilgiri Hills is a region of mountains, forests and tea plantations located in southern India where the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka all come together and rise to a height of 2,400 meters. TRIBES OF THE NILGIRI HILLS AND WESTERN GHATS
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