Gudalur is picturesque green carpeted valley on the way to Ooty from Mysore. It is gateway to three states, Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Kerala lying equidistant from both Kerala and Karnataka. It is said that Gudalur get its name from Koodal - uru, meaning the " meeting place ". Thought the history of the name is not very clear it really is a place where all the three states boundaries meet. Agricultural (Tea) Plantations dot the whole region whose economy is heavily dependant on the tea industry. Being a satellite town between OOty and Mysore, both tourist spots, Gudalur has the advantage of developing in to another good tourist place.Gudalur is a place where one can see people from the three states namely tamilnadu, kerala, karnataka live together cordially. It is a hot tourist spot.
Gudalur lies at the level of the evergreen forests, and in earlier years was a densely forested area.
Gudalur's population is a mix of Sri Lankan Tamil repatriates (mostly Dalits), Malayalis, Tamils, and adivasi communities.
Gudalur also has a complex social system, as outlined in the introduction, and in several of our conversations we were told that there have been attempts to mobilize the population on ethnic and religious lines.
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