{"id":17064,"date":"2020-11-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/11\/23\/canada-to-return-stolen-18th-century-annapurna-statue-to-india\/"},"modified":"2020-11-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T12:00:00","slug":"canada-to-return-stolen-18th-century-annapurna-statue-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/11\/23\/canada-to-return-stolen-18th-century-annapurna-statue-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to Return Stolen 18th-Century Annapurna Statue to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatimes.com\/trending\/social-relevance\/canada-to-return-annapurna-statue-to-india-528037.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/im.indiatimes.in\/content\/2020\/Nov\/Annaporna_5fb8ed8298097.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%;object-fit:scale-down;\" \/><br \/>OTTAWA, CANADA, November 21, 2020 (India Times): A Canadian university will soon return to India a unique statue of Hindu Goddess Annapurna that was stolen from a shrine in Varanasi over a century ago and found its way to the varsity&#8217;s art gallery, in an attempt to &#8220;right historical wrongs&#8221; and help overcome the &#8220;damaging legacy of colonialism.&#8221;. The statue is part of the University of Regina&#8217;s collection at the MacKenzie Art Gallery. The statue was part of the original 1936 bequest by Norman MacKenzie, the gallery&#8217;s namesake.<\/p>\n<p>Artist Divya Mehra brought attention to the fact that the statue had been wrongfully taken over a century ago while going through MacKenzie&#8217;s permanent collection and preparing for her exhibition, the university said in a statement on Thursday. According to a release from the Indian high commission, the university recently discovered that the Annapurna statue may have been acquired &#8220;under suspicious circumstances and did not conform to current principles of ethical acquisition.&#8221; The statue will soon begin its journey home following a virtual repatriation ceremony held on November 19. University&#8217;s Interim President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Thomas Chase virtually met with High Commissioner of India to Canada Ajay Bisaria to officially repatriate the statue, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source OTTAWA, CANADA, November 21, 2020 (India Times): A Canadian university will soon return to India a unique statue of,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}