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'''Shermuhammadpuram''' is a village located in [[Etcherla]] [[Tehsil|mandal]] in [[Srikakulam district]], northeastern [[Andhra Pradesh]], India. It is located {{convert|7|mi}} east of [[Chipurupalle]], and {{convert|4|mi}} west of [[Srikakulam]] (Chicacole).<ref name="Sewell1882">{{cite book|last=Sewell|first=Robert|title=Lists of the Antiquarian Remains in the Presidency of Madras|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QswOAAAAQAAJ|year=1882|publisher=E. Keys, at the Government Press (public domain material)|page=13}}</ref> It contains the ruins of a palace built by a Mussulman governor who gave his name to the place.<ref name="Sewell1882"/> A 1922 publication stated that "there was a general failure of crops in [[Madugula]] and of wet crops in Shermuhammadpuram".<ref>{{cite book|title=The Feudatory and Zemindari India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IBUnAQAAIAAJ|year=1922|page=294}}</ref>

== History ==
Before 1947, Shermuhammadpuram was an erstwhile [[Zamindar|Zamindari]] of the [[British Raj]] located in [[Madras Presidency]]. The zamindari was prosperous and was second only to the [[Vizianagaram estate]] in paying a high amount of ''peshkush'' to the British government. The Rajas of Shermuhammadpuram were known and respected for their genius.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Rao|first1=N K|last2=Vagiswari|first2=A|last3=Birdie|first3=Christina|date=2011|title=Early Pioneers of Telescopic Astronomy in India:G.V.Juggarow and His Observatory|url=https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1103/1103.5104.pdf|journal=[[Indian Institute of Astrophysics]]|arxiv=1103.5104}}</ref>

Evidently, Raja Jugga Rao was an agent and interpreter of John Andrews, the chief of [[Machilipatnam]], and moved with him to [[Visakhapatnam]] in 1769. HIs son and successor, Raja Surya Narayan Rao was well known in the region for his intelligence and public spirit. However, the most famous member of this aristocrat family was Raja Gode Venkat Jugga Rao. He was one of the earliest pioneers of observational astronomy in India and laid establishment of the earliest private modern astronomical observatory of India at [[Daba Gardens]], Visakhapatnam in 1840 named after him as G.V. Juggarow Observatory.<ref name=":0" /> Furthermore, he had the privilege of traveling to [[England]] in 1900 and interacting with [[Queen Victoria]] and [[Edward VII]], [[Prince of Wales]]. He was elected as the [[Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society]], [[Royal Meteorological Society]], [[Royal Colonial Institute]] and [[Royal Society of Arts]]. On his way back to India, he received a bronze statue of Queen Victoria which is now situated in the [[Queen Victoria Pavilion]] in [[One Town (Visakhapatnam)]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Vadivelu|first=A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o6YeAAAAMAAJ|title=The Aristocracy of Southern India|date=1984|publisher=Mittal Publications|pages=164–166|language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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