Repatriation of the Thirumangai Alvar Statue
In March 2026, a rare 16th-century bronze statue of the Vaishnavite saint Thirumangai Alvar was formally returned to India by the **Ashmolean Museum in the United Kingdom. The handover ceremony took place at the High Commission of India in London, marking another success in India’s ongoing efforts to recover stolen cultural artefacts. The idol had originally been stolen from the Shri Soundararaja Perumal Temple at Thadikombu in Tamil Nadu during the 1950s and was later acquired by the museum in 1967 through a Sot
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