Upon the Hillock

<p><em style="background-color: rgba(249, 249, 249, 1); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Upon the Hillock</em><span style="background-color: rgba(249, 249, 249, 1); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">&nbsp;describes life in the wild hills and woodlands of Kerala in India. A place where snakes, elephants and tigers are a common threat to the people that live there.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(249, 249, 249, 1); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">This story follows the life of a princess, Rajalakshmi, who is banished from the royal household in disgrace after her conniving cousin, the Kings niece, ensures she is caught in a compromising position with a young man.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(249, 249, 249, 1); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">She is sent to live in a compound run by a lecherous man who has designs on winning her affections. However, after becoming ill with a bout of smallpox, she is left in the woodlands to die. She survives, however, after being found by a native called Kodanddi, himself heir to the throne of his tribe.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(249, 249, 249, 1); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">They marry and have a son, a male heir to the King's throne... and then soldiers start turning up, and the couple worries for their son's life.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(249, 249, 249, 1); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Will the niece succeed in her plan? Kodanddi and Rajalakshmi go into hiding with their son and Kodanddi's mother to stop this from happening. Will the young heir survive?</span></p>