James Wilkinson Breeks

James Wilkinson Breeks (5 March 1830 – 7 June 1872) was a British Indian colonial administrator who served as the first commissioner of the Nilgiris. He wrote some of the early anthropological treatises on the peoples of the region. He is best known for the book ''An Account of the Primitive Tribes and Monuments in the Nilagiris'' published posthumously in 1873. Provided by Wikipedia