Ashmolean museum returns 16th century bronze sculpture of Thirumangai Alvar

The Ashmolean Museum, successful Oxford, England, has returned a 16^th-Century bronze statue of Saint Thirangai Alvar to the Government of India, pursuing probe into the object’s provenance and liaison with Indian authorities.

The handover of the statue was marked astatine a solemnisation held astatine the High Commission of India successful London connected Tuesday. The manager of the Ashmolean, Xa Sturgis, CBE, and Professor Mallica Kumbera Landrus, caput of the Museum’s Department of Eastern Art, were present.