London, March 4 In a major first, the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford has returned a 16th-century bronze idol to India for its journey back to the temple in Tamil Nadu where it belongs.The sacred icon of Saint Thirumankai Alvar was acquired by the museum in a Sotheby’s auction in...
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