THE NILGIRI COLLECTION

THE NILGIRI COLLECTION

Stanford University, a major university in Silicon Valley, California, has now established in its library ‘the Nilgiri Collection‘. This is the largest collection of books, articles, manuscripts, dissertations and maps dealing with the Nilgiris to be found anywhere in the world — even bigger than what is in the British Library. The books date from 1820 onwards, down to the present.

The material is still in process of being catalogued, but a catalogue of it may be found at < https://searchworks.stanford.edu/ catalog?q=%22Nilgiri+Collection.%22&search_field=subject_terms >. 

At present there is no online access to the material, as it has to be consulted in the library’s Special Collections room in Palo Alto. But as the library is digitising vast amounts of material nowadays, we might hope for online access later on. The librarian who is in charge of this and all South Asian books is Dr. Ryan Perkins, a historian, and he may be reached at c.ryanperkins@stanford.edu

Information, kind courtesy : Prof. Paul Hockings, the Anthropologist par excellence, who is on a visit to the Nilgiris