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A Toda family in the Nilgiri Hills, India, 1837. Alternative title: 'The Nilgiri Sannyasis'. 'Taken at Kandelmund, which it represents, and the Toda family inhabiting'. Group of people sitting outside a wooden building. The Todas are believed by some to be descendants of Romans, a lost tribe of Israel, or even the descendants of Alexander the Great's soldiers. Plate 5 from Richard Barron's "View in India, chiefly among the Neelgherry Hills".