Which of the following regions is the original habitat of the 'Toda Tribe'?

The correct answer is B, Nilgiri Hills. The Toda are a small pastoral people of the upper Nilgiri plateau in Tamil Nadu. They live in hamlets called munds, herd buffaloes and treat dairy work as a sacred duty carried out at the conical or barrel-vaulted temple huts that appear in every photograph of them. Their embroidery, the putukuli shawl worked in red and black, is a registered craft of the hills. The Kota, Kurumba, Irula and Badaga share the same hills with them.

Option A, the Kumaun Hills, and option D, the Garhwal Hills, are in Uttarakhand, where the Tharu, Bhotia, Jaunsari and Raji live. Option C, the Khasi Hills, are in Meghalaya, the home of the matrilineal Khasi. All three are genuine tribal regions, but only the Nilgiris of the Western Ghats are the Toda homeland.