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| In Nilgiri districts, the Todas live in settlements. The Toda settlement is referred to as und These Munds are unethnic villages where only Toda population is very interesting. James Wilkinson Breeks concluded on th Nov that the Todas in the Nilgiris numbered by the census. In the year , the total population of the Todas was estimated to be and in their population was . According to census of India , Todas population was members. In the year it was found that Todas live in the Nilgiri district. At present they live in occupied settlements. Todas were <a href=http://www.2souls.nl/>ugg sale</a> pastoral people often moving from one place to another on the hills along with their buffalos in search of grazing lands into cultivable lands by non tribal, grazing lands disappeared and the Todas stopped moving to other areas along with their families and buffalos. They started permanently living in settled settlements.
Mr. Metz and Dr Caldwell declared that their Roman noses and flowing robes gave indications that they were the survivors of the Roman colony in South India.
A typical Toda settlement comprises of three to nine dwelling huts, one to three dairy temple huts, at least one buffalo pen circular open shelter, one or more calf shed. The Toda huts are usually built close together, sometimes in a row or a line and a single hut is usually surrounded by a low level stone <a href=http://www.djke.nl/>ugg sale</a> fence with an entrance, narrow enough to admit a single person at time. The design of the traditional dwelling hut and dairy hut is barrel vaulted with the half <a href=http://www.2souls.nl/>uggs outlet</a> barrel shaped roof and side walls projecting a little. A noble curiously commented that his kind of building is found nowhere else in India.
W H R Rivers enumerated a number of points in which there is a close resemblance between the customs o the Todas and those of the people of Malabar.
Social Organisation
The Toda Habitat And Population.
The dairy building is also the Toda temple and it must be kept apart from the dwellings and the women folk. Todas use their traditional garment shawl called ut kuli a thick white cotton cloth embroidered by Toda women. It is identical for both. Todas are lacto vegetarians. They never eat meat. Their food is <a href=http://www.djke.nl/>kinder uggs</a> cooked or soaked in milk or ghee and they drink plenty of butter milk, jewellery is worn by both men and women. Todas jewellery was formerly made by Kota artisans. The tattooing of Toda women is still mandatory. Todas speak their own language, which is an independent language of the Dravidian family.
Colonel Marshall research reveals that Todas have come from the jungle tract of interior hills situated between the Kaparese and Tamil districts in the direction of the Hasanur pass in the Eastern Ghats, north east of the Nilgiris.
The social organisation of any society involves mutual <a href=http://www.2souls.nl/>kinder uggs</a> relations, obligations, anticipated behaviour and actual behaviour of community members. This social organisation is the network of relations existing among individuals and groups in a society. Generally the tribes form a small community of
The Todas are also said to believe in their descent from Ravan.
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