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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