Talk:Droogs (rocks)

Historical meaning of "droog"
The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1848-or-thereabouts uses the word "droogs" to mean something more like "forts" or "cities"; cf. Nundidroog.

These masses have usually one or more of their sides precipitous, or at such an angle as to be inaccessible except at a few points. This circumstance, added to that of their insulated uncommanded position, has led to their being selected by the natives for the sites of some of their droogs and strongest fortresses. Many of the names I have recapitulated will serve to remind the historical reader of the bloody struggles these granite masses have been silent witnesses of. Most of them, like that of Severndroog, are so steep as to admit of little vegetation, and present surfaces of many thousand square feet of perfectly naked rock, in which the veins and mineralogical structure are beautifully laid bare to the eye of the geologist.

The same sort of meaning — "droog" as man-made habitation, not natural rock formation — seems to be on display in Nandi Hills, India. --Quuxplusone (talk) 07:33, 31 July 2018 (UTC)