Must-see shopping in The Western Ghats

Run by Kotagiri's Keystone Foundation, this fair-trade, organic-oriented shop sells gorgeous tribal crafts and clothes (including Toda embroidery), and…

Stylish jewellery, fabrics, cards and more, at reasonable prices, made by and benefiting marginalised village women around Tamil Nadu.

Beautiful fair-trade local tribal crafts, clothes, fabrics and notebooks, plus organic wild honey, nuts, chocolates, soaps and teas.

The ecofriendly Keystone Foundation's shop has goodies for picnics (local chocolates, wild honey) plus lovely tribal crafts.

K Mahaveer Chand has been selling particularly beautiful Toda tribal and silver jewellery for nearly 50 years.

Perfect for pretty locally made mugs, bowls, plates and other pottery.

A well-known chain with a good stash of English-language books.

A curious assortment of antique telephones, radios and clocks, along with shawls, jewellery and warm clothes.