{"id":39477,"date":"2021-12-05T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2021\/dec\/04\/looted-and-left-in-an-english-garden-the-goat-goddess-can-return-to-india"},"modified":"2021-12-05T03:00:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T18:00:32","slug":"looted-and-left-in-an-english-garden-the-goat-goddess-can-return-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39477","title":{"rendered":"Looted and left in an English garden, the goat goddess can return to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The statue, once on sale at Sotheby\u2019s, was recovered amid claims it was part of a precious trove of stolen artefacts<\/p>\n<p>For more than 20 years, those who lived in and around the village of Lokhari in Uttar Pradesh, India, have prayed for the return of an important statue of a goddess that was stolen from a local temple. Now those prayers have been answered. The 8th-century goat-headed deity has been discovered thousands of miles away \u2013 in an English country garden, covered in moss.<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture will be formally given to the High Commission of India in London. It is a case that shames Sotheby\u2019s, which offered the statue for sale in 1988, a few years before the auctioneer was to face serious allegations of having encouraged looting of ancient Indian religious sites.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2021\/dec\/04\/looted-and-left-in-an-english-garden-the-goat-goddess-can-return-to-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The statue, once on sale at Sotheby\u2019s, was recovered amid claims it was part of a precious trove of stolen artefactsFor more than 20 years, those who lived in and around the village of Lokhari in Uttar Pradesh, India, have prayed for the return of an i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1819,"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":[546,91,71,62,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-culture","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39477","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\/1819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39478,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39477\/revisions\/39478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}