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Efforts to repatriate the Chola-era Leiden copper plates, besides known arsenic Anaimangalam copper plates, from the Netherlands proceed to look delays, contempt steps taken by the Centre.
The Anaimangalam copper plates are a acceptable of royal charters issued by King Rajendra Chola. The inscriptions picture the donation of Anaimangalam village, adjacent Nagapattinam, by his begetter Rajaraja Chola to Sri Mara Vijayottunggavarman of the Srivijaya Kingdom for gathering a Buddhist Vihara.
The royal charter has 2 sections comprising 21 copper plates. One acceptable is successful Tamil, portion the different is successful Sanskrit, and they are held unneurotic by a bronze ring. It has been housed astatine the University of Leiden successful the Netherlands. The Indian Government initiated bilateral talks a fewer years agone to bring backmost the plates to the country.
Recently, DMK Rajya Sabha Member N.R. Elango sought details from the Union Ministry of Culture astir the steps taken by the Centre to repatriate these plates. Union Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, successful his reply, said the required documents had been provided to the authorities concerned. He said the plates were taken overseas during the assemblage period, and the documents were shared done diplomatic channels.
Mr. Shekhawat besides said the contented was placed earlier the 24th league of the UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property for a discussion. The Centre was taking indispensable steps and including diplomatic negotiations to resoluteness the substance successful enactment with established planetary norms, helium added.
