This is not my article but just copy pates from different sources...Intension is to have this in my blog and to keep the info at one place
Archaeological Survey of India Director General Gautam Sengupta says, “Information is that most of the precious antique items which we lost in raids, attacks or loots during foreign invasions in the pre-independence period are spread over museums, mostly in European countries.”
Did you heard of Kohi-noor
No information is available about Shah Jahan’s Peacock throne, inlaid with precious stones, including the Kohinoor diamond, which was plundered by Nader Shah and taken to Persia in 1739.
The Kohinoor, a 105-carat diamond, once the largest in the world, was ostensibly presented to Queen Victoria in 1849 by the son of the Maharaja of Lahore, although many historians argue it was plundered by British Governor General Lord Dalhousie. The diamond is now at the Tower of London.
Did you heard of Tippu's Sword
Did you heard of Sultanganj Buddha
Another item is the Sultanganj Buddha, named after the town in northeastern India where it was found, was dug out of an abandoned Buddhist monastery in 1861 along with other priceless artefacts under the direction of E B Harris, a pith-helmeted functionary of the British Raj.
Within months, the 1,500-year-old bronze statue was shipped to Britain after a Birmingham industrialist, Samuel Thornton, secured it for 200 pounds.
Now the so-called “Birmingham Buddha” is one of the artefacts at the top of a list of “stolen treasures”.
Then, according to The Independent, is the Amravati railings, a series of limestone carvings dating from around AD100, acquired from a Buddhist temple in Andhra Pradesh by Victorian explorers.
The 2,000-year-old Amravati railings, which are limestone plaques from south-eastern India, depicting scenes from the life of Buddha, presently in the British Museum.
The Sultanganj Buddha, a 2.3m tall bronze statue, plundered by a British engineer in 1861 from North-east India, presently in the Birmingham city museum.
There is the Saraswati idol, a sculpture of the Hindu deity from the Bhoj temple
India is seeking UNESCO support to retrieve priceless antiquities, such as the Peacock Throne and the Kohinoor, looted by foreign invaders. Other sought treasures include A marble Saraswati statue stolen from a temple at Bhojsala in central India and subsequently acquired by the British Museum in 1886.
India should get all of them back but I don't think we can make it !!!
So very true...but when the whole world knows that those stolen antique pieces of British are ours, why aren't we fighting 4 it to get them back??
ReplyDeleteI guess we got to get the list of all the great antiques and may be buy them back. I am sure, they dont care if you give the money.
ReplyDeleteNo chinni...you can't buy any one of those, because each one is priceless and i really mean it. No can evaluate kohinoor...not beacuse of its carrots of diamond but beacuse of its history and culutural values associated with it. Briton doenst need any money to sell them and its a prestige issue for them too. Briton denied our proposal to return kohinoor. if they start giving out stuff from royal palace palace would soon becomem empty because evry other nation starts asking their cultural things...so british is lot cautious and made it clear that they never want to return any,....but with other nation should build up pressure to start negotiations........
ReplyDeletewe are of-course fighting, but not enough...and British is one of the richest and great friend of USA..its not that easy as we think...it needs lot of pressure to buildup on them. and even if they agree to ... there are multiple nations claiming single piece for example, kohinoor, pakistan is also claiming kohiinoor and requested british to give it to them...and same case with many other
ReplyDeletehey, not just the British, there are a lot of priceless items ploundered by the Arabs, Turks . they plundered all our temples, wealth.All we can do is to buy. Buying is the simplest thing we can do. If you think about bringing Kohinoor, we can try using negotiations, and it is almost impossible or Impossible. They filled in thousands of large ships for years, It is impractical think that we can get all that..so, like Vijay mallya brought a sword, I think may of TIppu fr 2 crores, it is easier if we can buy the ones which are available in black market...I assume there should be many available in that way.
ReplyDeleteFirst things first, we need to get our 320 lakh crores of black money which has been looted by our own people/politicians due in real corrupt system (which the british used while they were ruling and still continueing).
Then it will be practical to think of pressurizing the British or French or Portugese or Saudi or Turkey.
Any ways, hope the best :)
Negotiations will normally work if one is powerful,If India is more powerful, I guess, we can get that done by creating circumstances to those countries like, the ones the Americans did when we tested the Nuclear bomb.
ReplyDeleteSo, better get stronger as a country, mean while get the list of the targets to bring back and then, get the work done wither by money or pressure in the form of negotiations and by creating circumstances.
Circumstances can be by using the NRIs who give great services in their countries economy ...
ReplyDeleteWait......INDIA is still a developing country though......Let her get developed......I think all these go laters.....
ReplyDeleteI dunno if I am right.....but I feel it that way......
I dont know who is this Anonymous....but
ReplyDeleteI will tell you a note given by a world bank (or) may be some thing of that level said "Even after 2040, India will still have considerably large number of poor people taht it needs take care of, but it can act as a engine for worlds economy".....and I believe that even in 2040 we can say/see India as a developed nation but given its quantity in terms of moeny/GDP?people, it will be a powerful nation.
We are not trying to do war with UK now to get all our stuff, but the answer would be to buildup diplomatic pressure by taking to the world nations and joining with other nations like us (which were looted in colonial era)....