The government has denied that it is seeking wholesale repatriation of cultural property extracted by Britain from India during colonial times.
Reacting to a story, “India to force Britain into colonial ‘reckoning’ with treasure demands”, in the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper, the government said the headline and story were “unfortunately misleading”.
The Telegraph, on Friday, reported that New Delhi was preparing to make “the largest repatriation claim faced by the UK, on a scale that would dwarf Greece’s demands for the Elgin Marbles” and that Indian diplomatic and ministerial staff were being “mobilised” to secure “potentially thousands” of artefacts, including the Kohinoor diamond.
