Oriental Scenery/Part 4/Plate 4
No. IV.
SHEVAGURRY.
Shevagurry is a small village, the residence of a Poligar Rajah, tributary to the British government. It is situated at the foot of a range of hills that extend in a southern direction towards Cape Comorin, from which it is distant about one hundred miles. The village is concealed behind the rocky eminence, whereon is placed the temple and choultries that appear in this view. The inhabitants of this part of the country are chiefly rude mountaineers, but little civilized, and as usual much attached to their native hills, which afford them shelter both from their common enemies and those provoked by their insubordination. Should their chief choose at any time to resist the regular claims of government, (a circumstance not unfrequent), he immediately flies to his hilly fastnesses, whence he is not easily dislodged; and his submission in such cases can only be enforced with much trouble and expense.
Shevagurry.