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- čas přidán 18. 08. 2022
- A museum in Glasgow performs a handover ceremony to return seven items that were stolen from India during the Colonial era to the country. Dignitaries from the High Commission of India join members of Glasgow Life, the charity that manages the Scottish city's museum collections, at the transfer of ownership ceremony, following more than 18 months of talks.
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THE SWORD HAS SUCH INTRACATE DETAILS AND CRAFTSMANSHIP
Good initiative! Specially when people are admitting their mistakes.
Gives more room for home grown archeology and works of art. They have no cultural importance in Scotland other than a reminder of a dark period in British history. Please also send the Elgin Marbles whilst being culturally enlightened. That room in The British Museum will soon be filled with local historical artifacts.
that was the right thing to do, well done Scotland
Give all the artifacts back. Celebrate your own artifacts
What about the bounty stolen from South Africa?
They written Indian first u thinking they will return afticas
Who knows how many have been duplicated? And who knows the returns may be less valuable to them!!
Not all has been given
the right thing to do.
Our money??
British royalty have to return all the gems stolen by them.
This video reports with glee that a sword “stolen by the British under colonial rule” has been returned to the Indian government. It was not stolen by the British - it was stolen by the Nizam’s prime minister.
What the report does not make clear that the tulwar (to give serpent sword its correct designation) was indeed stolen; but not by the British “…under colonial rule”.
The sword belonged to the Nizam of Hyderabad - in his day, the wealthiest man in the world - and the artefact was stolen by his prime minister who later sold it to General Sir Archibald Hunter who bought it in good faith.
Hyderabad was a princely state. As such it was never colonised by the British, and it enjoyed full internal self-government with its own currency and postal system.
Intensely loyal to the British Crown, at Indian independence in 1947 the Nizam (ruler) declared Hyderabad a third dominion outside of both India and Pakistan.
Unlike the British, who had respected Hyderabad’s autonomy during the Raj, the Indian government refused to accept the Nizam’s perfectly legal declaration and, in September 1948, it invaded. Hyderabad lost its independence; its Nizam was deposed, and his country forcibly annexed (as Putin has done with chunks of Ukraine). The same museum is now considering returning some of the infamous Benin Bronzes. Why? In the late 19th century Britain entered into a treaty with Oba Ovonramwen, then ruler of Benin, to open the country up to trade and to abolish human sacrifice and slavery. He reneged on that treaty and the massacre of a British expedition in 1896 led to the punitive attack of 1897. As the British force entered the capital, a contemporary report described trees hung with decomposing human remains and the bones of human sacrifices. Others were tied to stakes and were waiting to have their stomachs sliced open.
The seized bronze artefacts were not placed in museums to gloat at a British victory; they were sold on the open market to finance the 1897 expedition as a result of which the monarch was exiled; the sale also went towards the pension given to this evil tyrant by the British. Rest assured, the Oba’s numerous slaves, and those waiting to be ritually disembowelled were very pleased to see the British emerging from the jungle - and they couldn’t have cared less about some bronzes the sale of which financed events that saved them from a horrible death and led to their freedom. The truth hurts doesn’t it?
In response to your first point, the general shouldn’t have bought it in the first place. He should have been cognisant of the fact that it’s stolen. He obviously didn’t care and still bought it anyway.
@@arjunaravind1351 how could he have known it was stolen this was the 1800’s it’s not like news like that travels fast. He wasn’t psychic.
now trillions £££
good initiative we want our forefathers property back to our indians states..we want our right back from britain..otherwise britain have face wrath of all indians around the world......
Yeah give our things back you colonialists