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The Times of India
The Times of India
World
Naomi Canton

UK museum returns 2,000 manuscripts to Jain community in landmark restitution agreement

TOI Correspondent from London: Two thousand Jain manuscripts bought by British pharmaceutical entrepreneur Sir Henry Wellcome, which had been held by the Wellcome Collection in London, a museum set up after his death to hold all the items he had collected across the world, are now being returned to the Jain community.

The collection, believed to be the largest of Jain manuscripts outside South Asia, spans the 15th to 19th centuries.

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