India seeks return of 15th century Tamil statue in Oxford

Oxford to restore a fifteenth-century bronze statue of Tamil writer Tirumankai Alvar, which was allegedly taken from a sanctuary in Kumbakonam in the Thanjavur area of Tamil Nadu during the 1960s.

The exhibition hall, which purchased the statue in a London sell-off in 1967, educated the Indian high commission in December that new research scrutinised its provenance. Indian authorities expressed gratitude toward the gallery for alarming the mission.

As indicated by Rahul Nagare, first secretary, the strategic got a report from the Tamil Nadu police that "unambiguously shows that the first icon has been taken and supplanted with a phoney one and that the taken symbol is a similar one that is by and by with the Ashmolean".

"In this way, we have passed on our proper solicitation to them for compensation of the icon to India. The symbol wing is presently further researching the issue about the first burglary and ensuing sneaking out of the icon."

A representative for the exhibition hall stated: "The historical centre obtained the statue following some basic honesty. As per the Sotheby's index, the bronze was sold from the assortment of Dr JR Belmont (1886-1981)".

"We as of now have no sign of how the bronze entered his assortment, and we are proceeding to research with the help of the Indian high commission."

Comparable old Indian relics recuperated in the UK have as of late been come back to India.

On August 15, 2019, two things are taken from India were repatriated following a joint US-UK examination: a limestone cut alleviation design, beginning from Andhra Pradesh, evaluated to be dated between first century BC and early century AD; and a Navaneetha Krishna bronze figure, from Tamil Nadu, dated around seventeenth century AD.

On August 15, 2018, Scotland Yard came back to the crucial twelfth century Buddha statue taken from the Archeological Survey of India's gallery in Nalanda, Bihar, in August 1961, and recouped in the UK.