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India requests return of 15th-century idol from UK museum

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India has made a formal request for a 15th-century bronze idol believed to be stolen from a temple in Tamil Nadu and found its way to a UK museum through auction. The statue of Saint Tirumankai Alvar was acquired by the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford from Sotheby’s auction house in 1967 from the collection of a collector named J R Belmont (1886-1981). The museum said it is open for further discussions.