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Todas is dominant in the ‘Blue Mountains’ of South India
About 3000 Todas live today in the Nilgiris or the Blue Mountains of South India. Toda people are a Dravidian ethnic group who live in the Nilgiri Mountains of Tamil Nadu. The Todas are vegetarians and do not eat meat, eggs that can hatch, or fish.
Toda people are a Dravidian ethnic group who live in the Nilgiri Mountains of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Before the 18th century and British colonisation, the Toda coexisted locally with other ethnic communities, including the Kota, Badaga and Kurumba, in a loose caste-like society, in which the Toda were the top ranking.
During the 20th century, the Toda population has hovered in the range 700 to 900. Although an insignificant fraction of the large population of India, since the early 19th century the Toda have attracted "a most disproportionate amount of attention because of their ethnological aberrancy" and "their unlikeness to their neighbours in appearance, manners, and customs".
The study of their culture by anthropologists and linguists proved significant in developing the fields of social anthropology and ethnomusicology.