Tondai Mandalam Tuluva Velalar's School - George Town, Chennai


The Tondai Mandalam Tuluva Velalar's Higher Secondary School is one of the oldest surviving schools in Madras (Chennai) city. It is located on Mint Street in George Town locality.

It was started in 1854 CE. The famous Tamil scholar Maha Vidwan Tiru Mylai Shanmugam Pillai, the first to publish "Manimegalai," was a teacher at this school.

As per the historian Mr. V. Sriram, the Bhagavat Katha Prasanga Sabha used to meet regularly in this school, and hence it was also called Tondai Mandalam Sabha. Its secretary C. Muniswami Naidu was the first to attempt selling concert tickets. He sold tickets for a concert in the late 1880s in this school, which was not very successful though.

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