A dentist's 30-year mission to preserve Toda culture has blossomed into a government-backed project. The Kuttawddy Centre in ...

Toda language also belongs to the family of Dravidian language, and it is spoken by the Toda people, who are located in Nilgiri Hills of southern India. The members of this tribe are Hindu and ...

CHENNAI : In the misty, sprawling hills of the Nilgiris, Seetha Lakshmi — like most girls from the Toda community — was handed a glimmering needle, when she turned 12 years old. With this needle, her ...

(This is a monthly column on tribal and folk traditions from across the country.) It would be difficult today to trace the lives and histories of the nine Toda embroidery patterns which Murray Emeneau ...

CHENNAI: The name Nilgiri Hills paints a green picture of the vast tea plantations under blue skies. When Logashini, a History graduate from MCC and museum management intern at DakshinaChitra Heritage ...

The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) in Mysuru on Monday hosted its Winter School on Language Documentation (WSLD) and the finalisation of the Toda Primer. The event aimed at engaging and ...

Under the latest and popular online series of Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya entitled ‘Exhibit of the Week’ the 'Puthukuli, A traditional embroidered shawl' collected from Toda ...