The Todas who are the original inhabitants of the Western Ghats in Ooty region are a close-knitted tribal community mainly related to each other through marriages.
They live in small Toda Huts also referred to as Todas Hamlets with just as few as ten Huts within a single Toda community spread across the gentle slopes of the pastureland of Ooty.
This community believes in living a very ordered way of life and follows the norms of their society very strictly.
The Toda people for example if live in a community of which consists of 10 huts then it would be divided accordingly .
Of these 10 Huts, one Hut is used exclusively for the cattle to sleep in during the night, the second Hut is used as a storage warehouse while the rest of the Toda Huts are used as the dwelling places of the Toda family.
