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India asks Oxford museum to return ‘stolen’ bronze statue
Ashmolean receives request for restitution of 15th-century idol of Saint Tirumankai Alvar
The Indian government has asked the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford to return a 15th-century bronze idol that was apparently stolen from a temple in the 1960s.
The Indian high commission in London said a formal request for restitution of the statue of Saint Tirumankai Alvar was made last Friday.