{"id":64788,"date":"2024-06-09T03:31:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T18:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/article\/2024\/jun\/08\/oxford-university-to-return-500-year-old-sculpture-of-hindu-saint-to-india"},"modified":"2024-06-09T03:31:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T18:31:12","slug":"oxford-university-to-return-500-year-old-sculpture-of-hindu-saint-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64788","title":{"rendered":"Oxford University to return 500-year-old sculpture of Hindu saint to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian high commission made claim bronze depicting Tirumankai Alvar which it believes may have been looted<\/p>\n<p>Oxford University has announced it is to hand back a 500-year-old sculpture of a Hindu saint to India.<\/p>\n<p>The almost 60cm-tall bronze statue, which depicts Tirumankai Alvar, had been on display at the university\u2019s Ashmolean Museum.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/article\/2024\/jun\/08\/oxford-university-to-return-500-year-old-sculpture-of-hindu-saint-to-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian high commission made claim bronze depicting Tirumankai Alvar which it believes may have been lootedOxford University has announced it is to hand back a 500-year-old sculpture of a Hindu saint to India.The almost 60cm-tall bronze statue, which de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2098,"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":[1142,71,62,89,1143,1065,61,52,1144,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashmolean-museum","category-culture","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\/64788","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\/2098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64789,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64788\/revisions\/64789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}