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Definition of Nilgiri hills
1. Noun. Hills in southern India.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nilgiri Hills
Literary usage of Nilgiri hills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Missionary Review of the World by James Lutzweiler (1901)
"TODAS AND THEIR HOME IN THE nilgiri hills, INDIA. of them, and we can not wonder
when we know that the revolting custom of polyandry exists among them. ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"They are believed, from the accounts of sportsmen and others who have penetrated
to their summits, to surpass the nilgiri hills in salubrity of climate, ..."
3. Peruvian Bark: A Popular Account of the Introduction of Chinchona by Clements Robert Markham (1880)
"This survey of the climates of India led me to the selection of the nilgiri hills
for the establishment of our first plantations; and most fortunately the ..."
4. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay by Asiatic Society of Bombay (1870)
"A Collection of words from the language of the Todas, the Chief Tribe on the
nilgiri hills. Communicated to the Society by the Rev. DR. STEVENSON. ..."
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