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Indian coffee board- monthly magazine- Cover Story - The History of Shevaroys (1941 words) |
 | The Salem District has recorded evidence of inhabitation from the Neolithic age and on the Shevaroys polished celts, chiseled stones for use as a hammer, stone discs, slick stones a ring stone and a phallus stone were discovered by Robert Bruce Foote of the Geological Survey of India. |
| The Malaiyalis of the Shevaroys are said to be the descendants of Periyannan who came originally from the Kancheepuram area either escaping persecution or in search of a promised land where they could freely practice their religion of worshipping Kari Raman also known as Servarayan. |
| The Shevaroys as per the local inhabitants consisted of Selanadu (Area south and east of the Shevaroyan Temple) Muttanadu (Land in and around the shevaroyan Temple) and Moganadu (area North of the Temple). |
| Charnockite - LoveToKnow 1911 (515 words) |
| It is astonishing to find that in spite of their great age their minerals are often in excellent preservation. |
| In India they form the Nilgiri Hills, the Shevaroys and part of the Western Ghats, extending southward to Cape Comorin and reappearing in Ceylon. |
| Although they are certainly for the most part igneous gneisses (or orthogneisses), rocks occur along with them, such as marbles, scapolite limestones, and corundum rocks, which were probably of sedimentary origin. |
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