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On Friday, the Glasgow Museum officially handed over to India seven pieces of art looted during the colonization of India. 19th centurybecoming the first cultural institution in the UK to do so.
Glasgow Life, which manages the Scottish City Museum’s collections, said in a statement that it “received representatives of the Indian Legation today (Friday) for the handover” of the assets.
Details of returned objects
Those seven antiquities they were stolen from sacred places such as temples and transferred to the collections of the city’s museums.
Six of these items were stolen from northern India in the 1800s, and another, a ceremonial sword from around the 14th century, was acquired illegally after being stolen from its owners.
Generally, glasgow museum decided to return 51 objects: in addition to the seven destined for India, he also returned 19 bronze objects from the ancient kingdom of Benin, which he laid in Nigeria, and 25 objects – mostly ceremonial objects – from the tribes of the Cheyenne River and the Oglala Sioux from the south. Dakota (USA).
Return start
Several Western museums, in the wake of anti-racist movements, have begun to assess the provenance of objects in their collections and have launched restitution procedures.
This Friday’s return “marks an important milestone for Glasgow” and requires the “rightful owners” to get the works back, Duncan Donran, head of museums and collections at Glasgow Life, said in a statement.
“These objects are part of our heritage as a civilization, and now they will be sent back to their countries of origin,” the acting head of the diplomatic mission said. India in United Kingdom, Sujit Ghosh, thanking “everyone who made this possible”, including the City of Glasgow. (AFP)
Source: RPP
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