14James Wilkinson Breeks (1830–72), an administrator in India and an anthropologist, took over the administration of the Nilgiris as its first Commissioner. He is the author of An Account of the Primitive Tribes and Monuments of the Nilagiris [sic] (1873), and he photographed the Kota, Kurumba, and Toda people of southern India in the early 1870s [Editor].