TIRUVANGAD - SRI RAMA TEMPLE 
DORRIL, THE BRITISH OFFICER

Historicity:

This temple enjoyed uninterrupted and unlimited sway since its inception - the administration was carried on without friction of any kind, due to implementation of well-established traditions and agamic injunctions. They of course, received sanction by that indomitable Parasuram, the sixth incarnation of Mahavishnu. But the trouble erupted in the eighteenth century, exactly in 1750, when the combined forces of Kolathunad, Kottayam and Kaduthanad invaded Tellucherry fort, disgusted by the wicked manoeuvres of Dorril, the British Officer. His irreverent attitude to religion and divide and rule policy assumed hedious shape and freightened the natives. The combined forces succeeded in capturing several strategic points including Tiruvangad; and it was freed from the foreign menace for sometime. The British officer then opened his eyes to the realities and understood the might of unity and his recklessness. Unity never bites dust, nor mutual regard and reciprocal exchanges go in vain.

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