Ancient Kalakhjana of India: Injured after being lost, but why did it not come to hand after ingestion?

- Eyesight-Hershal Pushkarna

- The US has just handed over 157 ancient artefacts to India, but thousands of artefacts still remain in India's books as 'arrears'.

If you missed or forgot the news of an unexpected benefit to India last week, let's refresh here. It so happened that when the Prime Minister was about to return to India after concluding his diplomatic visit to the United States, the local authorities presented him with a total of 154 historical artefacts in a formal ceremony in Manhattan, New York. Read carefully that the word 'submitted' is used here. It is not written 'give a gift'. Because 157 works were originally Indian. Years ago, she left our country illegally, reaching the international underground market for rare artefacts / artifacts / artifacts, where she was often exchanged for large sums of money. Eventually, the artefacts were donated to American museums by wealthy art collectors who wanted to get rid of the stolen goods as well as the strict legal action of the American Homeland Security. Today, who knows how many years it has returned home to 158 art samples.

If you look at the financial value of 158 Indian works submitted by the United States, the figure goes into millions of dollars, but for us, its historical and cultural value is so special. Because the copper, sandstone, granite and terracotta idols of Lord Buddha, Nataraja, Jain Tirthankaras, Suryadev riding in a chariot, Trimukhi Brahma, Chaturbhuj Vishnu, dancing Ganesha etc. are from 3rd to 11th century. In addition, terracotta artefacts, vases, and mudras for decoration are at least fifteen hundred years old. Another masterpiece that came home with all these precious things is the 16th century sword engraved with the name of the sixth Sikh guru Hargovind Dasji. She went missing from Punjab province years ago. Today, via America, he has returned to India.

Two years ago, the United States returned to India a statue of the late Mahishasurmardi of Durga, built in the 9th century. The historic statue, smuggled from India, was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2015 after a series of handouts. In 2014, we got a total of 14 ancient statues back from the United States, while in 2014, the Australian government handed over a Nataraja statue worth લાખ 5 million to India. Thousands of years ago, a 6-foot-tall and 150-kilogram Nataraja statue made of five metals (gold, silver, copper, lead and bronze) for the Brihadeshwar Shiva Temple in South India mysteriously disappeared from the Brihadeshwara. Came to the gallery. Who knows how it reached Australia, 4,000 km from India, but it was revealed through whom it reached a few years ago.

The smuggler's name was Subhash Kapoor. He was running a huge illegal business of smuggling કલાક 100 million a year (approximately Rs. 750 million at the current exchange rate) from ancient temples in India. In 2007, Subhash broke into a mediator by paying 15,000 and had eight idols, including Nataraja, Uma Maheshwari (Parvati) and Ganesha, stolen from the Brihadeshwara temple. The artifacts were valued at લાખ 5 million, લાખ 2.5 million and પ 3.5 million, respectively.

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Subhash Kapoor, who has carved out about 150 artistic statues from various temples in India, is now considered a prison in Chennai. But many other smugglers like him have stolen thousands of our valuable works in the past. UNESCO estimates the number of missing statues is less than 50,000. Only 30 of these works have been repatriated after self-regulation, 4 of which have come in the last 3 years. Last week, the United States returned 153 historic artifacts, while the current government is in political talks with the United States, Canada, Germany, Britain, Singapore and Australia for the transfer of another 20.

This is about the artefacts of India that were lost in the recent past. Let us now take a look at the white plunder carried out by the British in slave India two hundred and fifty years ago.

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The British Museum in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, is home to a huge museum. Built in the Victorian and Greek style, the magnificent building has an interior area of ​​210,000 square feet, which is nicely divided into 6 large compartments. It is not uncommon for a museum to be so large, but the British Museum is beyond imagination. Unimaginable, unusual and unique. A total of 3 million historical artefacts are preserved here, out of which only 1 per cent (60 thousand) of the priceless treasures have been displayed to the public. If you spend just 1 minute looking at each work without wasting time of small and big orises, eating-drinking and sleeping, it will take at least 53 days to observe 30,000 works of art. If you want to look at all the 3 million items of the museum, which are kept under tight security in the exhibition halls and other hidden closets of the house, it would take a little over fifteen years!

Eighty lakh artefacts? Where did such a large treasure trove of oil paintings, statues, sculptures, coins, gems, ornaments, characters, inscriptions, etc. finally come from in the British Museum? In this way:

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Britain occupied at least 35 million square kilometers of the world's geographical area. Many countries, including India, have been under British rule for years, and their valuable assets have been housed by the British. A large amount of white loot has fallen into the British Museum today. There are many examples of rampant and rampant looting by the British, some of which are worth quoting here in the case of India.

ई.स. In 1958, Colonel Robert Clive of the East India Company defeated the Nawabsabiraj-ud-Daula of Bengal by deception in the Battle of Plassey. A hefty penalty of Rs 2.50 crore on the Nawab for incurring expenses to the East India Company in the name of war. Scoring. Clive did not stop there because of his greed and selfishness. His eyes fell on the royal treasury of Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah. According to the chronicle, Clive unloaded valuables from the Nawab's treasury and loaded them on boats to the East India Company's headquarters at Fort William Fort in Calcutta. When everything in the boat was found to be 100 consignments, the bottom of the toshakhana appeared. The loot bumper Dalla was valued at ૨ 250,000 at the time in the eighteenth century. Robert Clive became the richest man of the time, scattering 10 per cent of this stake for himself. Countless artefacts looted by Clive are found today in the castle of Velsa as well as in the British Museum.

ई.स. In the third century, a Buddhist monastery was built in present day Andhra Pradesh. A nice stone railing was erected in the monastery premises. It was decorated in the name of art, moreover, the birth story of Lord Buddha's life events was presented in the form of carvings. Years later, the monastery and the railings were destroyed by the ravages of time. In 190, Walter Elliott, an English officer of the Madras Civil Service, excavated in Guntur and discovered the remains of an ancient stupa. Exquisite specimens of Indian stone art, ornate stones of Sama railings and a few specimens of other sculptures were sent to Madras and all the rest were packed in boxes as if they were British fiefdoms and sent to London. That treasure of white robbery has fallen into the British Museum today, when our country should be the real owner of it.

ચાર At the end of the nineteenth century, a four feet high idol of Goddess Saraswagati was also secretly erected by the British at the Bhojshala in Madhya Pradesh. It is housed in the British Museum along with hundreds of Indian artefacts.

ચો The fourth example of Tafdanchi is the golden throne of Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Punjab, who lives in the British Empire today and is housed in the Victoria-Albert Museum in London. At the height of the warrior's Sikh empire in the early nineteenth century, he had a gold-encrusted throne made by a craftsman named Hafiz Multani. The Golden Throne was snatched as a victory trophy when the British defeated Ranjit Singh (19) in the so-called Anglo-Sikh War. Shipwrecked in Britain, where it has been on display as a museum showpiece since 1951.

જા Also known as Kohinoor Diamond, which was also confiscated by the British as a gift from Duleep Singh, the young son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Today it is found under tight security in the Tower of London.

If so, thousands of other valuable artefacts have been suppressed by the British for years. Some time ago, when India collected, the British Prime Minister showed humility and said, "If we give everything back, the British Museum will be empty!" In short, it all started with India's looting and the satisfaction of accepting the works that were recently received from the US on a real basis!