India trying to block the auction of Buddhist religious ties

Jewelry is thin, some of the lengths, which are length, are arranged in complex patterns of circles and lines. In 1898, he was taken from the English-occupied India, along with bone and ashes, the remains of the Buddha were stated. The collection is probably one of the most holy replicas from the modern religion.

Now ignite a legal battle between the International Auction House, built to ignite the legal battle between the Government of India and Sotheby, to sell religious treasures in the auction. 120 years ago, works on the behalf of the British generation of the Boiler Explorer.

Monday, Ministry of Culture of India gave a legal orderHe said the blessings should be returned to India for “protection and religious ground”.

Sales are cut into the heart of a disturbing question of the post-peoples of the peoples: How should priceless relatives be looted from the occupied territories?

“We are often past this action, to re-think about the state of cultural articles,” he said. “Who do they belong to? What were they worth?

In recent years, with such questions, he became a house in one of the countries. Some American institutions slowly began to return to local tribes. Dutch museums They returned the colonial era’s works To countries like Nigeria and Sri Lanka. In Britain, museums have gradually been Returning plunderIncluding Buddhist burial traditions.

However, this week, the stones sold this week, these weeks have the unique complications. They are not caught by a museum or a state, but the Bible Office in 1898 is the British researcher William Claxton Peppé family.

This inconsistency presents an ethical conundrum, Naman Ahuja, Naman Ahuja, Museum’s management and repatriam New Delhi’s History of Art in Nehru University in Jawahaharlal.

“The British state made the ethics and public feelings, the state of England made the most suitable and returned relatives in 1952,” Mr. Ahuja, referring to other returned Buddhist substances, was returned by England. “But those who occupy the colonial position were not responsible.”

According to the description of the jewelers in Sotheby, Mr. Pepe discovered the works in Pipahwa, which is a village in northern India, while excavations. A stuba was foundinally found in a holy burial, the collection was considered the length of the Buddha who believed that he would be buried in the region with bones and ashes.

At that time, Mr. Pepe, including Kolkata’s Indian Museum, including Indian Museums, including Indian Museums, and other parts, converted to the British state. However, the family was allowed to keep some relatives passing for generations.

Chris Peppé, one of the three generations now experienced, Spoke to BBC The family had donated the collection to various Buddhist stakeholders, but did it, presented some problems. The auction “was the fairest and transparent way to transparent relatives to Buddhists,” said Mr. Pepe.

Sotheby’s previously defended that the Peppé family presented a private collection. The representative of the auction house demanded that the Indian Ministry of Culture requires an order by demanding the order, only the auction was appointed on Wednesday.

In the document, Posted on InstagramThe Ministry of Culture, Buddhist reqlos must be offered to the fight against the fight, more than the auction. The family of Pepps said, “There is no authority to sell these objects.”