{"id":14823,"date":"2020-02-21T22:28:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2020\/feb\/21\/india-asks-oxford-museum-return-stolen-bronze-statue-ashmolean"},"modified":"2020-02-21T22:28:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:28:35","slug":"india-asks-oxford-museum-to-return-stolen-bronze-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14823","title":{"rendered":"India asks Oxford museum to return &#8216;stolen&#8217; bronze statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashmolean receives request for restitution of 15th-century idol of Saint Tirumankai Alvar <\/p>\n<p>The Indian government has asked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashmolean.org\/\">Ashmolean Museum<\/a> in Oxford to return a 15th-century bronze idol that was apparently stolen from a temple in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcilondon.gov.in\/\">Indian <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcilondon.gov.in\/\">high <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcilondon.gov.in\/\">commission in London<\/a> said a formal request for restitution of the statue of Saint Tirumankai Alvar was made last Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2020\/feb\/21\/india-asks-oxford-museum-return-stolen-bronze-statue-ashmolean\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Indi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,91,1142,71,615,62,89,1143,1065,61,52,1144,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-ashmolean-museum","category-culture","category-education","category-india","category-museums","category-oxford","category-sculpture","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-university-of-oxford","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14824,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14823\/revisions\/14824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}