Table of Contents

Introduction; Ootacamund, the Lake and Government House; The Todas; St Stephen's Church, Ootacamund; The Badaga, the Kurumba & Genre Scenes; The Botanical Gardens at Ootacamund & the Government Cinchona Plantations; Ootacamund & Bangalore 1875-1877; Ooty, the Nilgiris & the Malabar Coast, 1878-1880; Ooty, the Downs, the Mountains & the Expansion of Penn's Business; The Spell of the Army; The Ootacamund Club, the Ootacamund Hunt & the Golf Course; Difficult Times: A Change in the Market; The Nilgiri Railway; A Fresh Start; Return to England; Then Back Home -- to the Nilgiris; Bibliography.

About the Author

Rahaab Allana is Curator of the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts in New Delhi. He completed his MA in Art History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, in 2001. He has worked as Assistant Curator at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, and is the author of Inherited Spaces Inhabited Places (2005), a volume on World Heritage Sites, published by the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi. Pramod Kumar K G is Associate Director at the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts in New Delhi. Founder Director of the Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing at Jaipur, he was Director of the Jaipur Virasat Foundation in 2005-06, and of the Jaipur Heritage International Festival and the first Jaipur Literature Festival in 2006.

Reviews

"Captures the stunning diversity evident in the formative years of photography in India. -- Anand Sankar, Business Standard "The lushness of the textiles, embroidery and jewellery, painted over to convey the glimmer of silk or the glitter of gold, can still be made out in the latest black-and-white versions of these chameleonic images." -- Aveek Sen, The Telegraph"