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Strategies & Market Trends : India Coffee House
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To: ratan lal who wrote (10099)12/19/1999 2:12:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette  Read Replies (1) of 12475
 
A Sequel to the Empire of Loot

Ratan:
Here is something to our mutual liking.
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Greece reclaims its treasures. Now how about the pieces of Indian history tonnes of it decaying in British hands?


It's become an agreed area of silence that Kohinoor and company are in Britain to stay. Also that the British brought home what treasures they found and that these are sitting pretty in British museums, thank you. It's taken the Greeks to show that it doesn't have to be so.

Following up their lead, an Indian initiative has been launched in London to win back at least some of its treasures. It follows the setting up of a British parliamentary committee to consider the return of the Elgin marbles to Greece after extensive negotiations. That the Labour regime is considering the return of the Elgin marbles, a star possession of the British Museum, brings a glimmer of seriousness to the move under way for the return of Indian treasures.

The move has been launched by the Committee for the Restoration of the Cultural Heritage of India (crch) headed by Bhaskar Ghorpade, a barrister who successfully fought the case for the return to India of a famous 12th century Pathur Nataraja statue.......


'It's a myth that the British museums preserve these treasures carefully,' charges Ghorpade. A standing commission on museums and galleries had reported that the Indian collections were 'scandalously neglected'.

outlookindia.com
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