The Nilgiri Documentation Centre (NDC) on Sunday launched Kotagiri History Group to “promote and preserve the natural, social and cultural history of this celebrated hill station in the Nilgiris,” a press release said.
Inaugurating the group, Dharmalingam Venugopal, director of the NDC, said that historical awareness was the first step in preserving hill stations.
Falling under the traditional Porangadu division of the Badagas, modern day Kotagiri is nestled at an altitude of 6400 ft on the Blue Mountains of the Western Ghats. Abundantly spread over pre-historic sites of Dolmens, Cairns, Menirs and Rock Arts bear witness to its antiquity, he said.
