HISTORY OF MUNNAR

Modern day Munnar was carved out, after a sequence of historic events. The earliest residents of modern day Munnar are the Muthuvan tribal community. Until the latter part of the 19th century, the areas were left untouched and unexplored (when a flurry of plantations came up in the area). John Daniel Munro introduced the world to Munnar in the 1870s, who came across the place by accident. He was called in to solve a border dispute between Travancore and its neighbour Madras, as the British Resident of Travancore kingdom. He fell in love with this new found area immediately.