Thiruparankundram row: early references to usage of ‘Sikkandar Malai’ by the Mohamedans

Thiruparankundram row: early references to usage of ‘Sikkandar Malai’ by the Mohamedans

For decades, Muslims have been referring to Tirupparankundram as ‘Sikkandar Malai’, while the Hindus call it ‘Kandar Malai’, ‘Murugan Malai’ or ‘Skandar Malai’. In June 1938, a reader of The Hindu, T. Sivasankaran, from Penukonda in the present day Andhra Pradesh, had written about the usage of ‘Sikkandar Malai’ in a Letters to the Editor column