{"id":18898,"date":"2022-09-10T02:59:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T02:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=18898"},"modified":"2022-09-10T02:59:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T02:59:15","slug":"stolen-deities-abound-in-american-museums-and-auction-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2022\/09\/10\/stolen-deities-abound-in-american-museums-and-auction-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Deities Abound in American Museums and Auction Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CHENNAI, INDIA, September 7, 2022 (IFP): The French Institute of Pondicherry in collaboration with the Idol Wing CID of the Tamil Nadu Police managed to trace back several murthis stolen from Tamil Nadu temples and smuggled to the US thanks to IFP&#8217;s rich and decades-old photo collection. Here&#8217;s just a sample of reports from the month of August:<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/trichy\/3-idols-stolen-from-mannargudi-temple-traced-to-la-museum\/articleshow\/93565649.cms?fbclid=IwAR2CULSgDy3RqmWYyxrlRU7oDQQDiB1JCRp5OFORsghLxsXVCRe_AAXadR8\">https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/trichy\/3-idols-stolen-from-mannargudi-temple-traced-to-la-museum\/articleshow\/93565649.cms?fbclid=IwAR2CULSgDy3RqmWYyxrlRU7oDQQDiB1JCRp5OFORsghLxsXVCRe_AAXadR8<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/kizhakkutoday.in\/india75-14\/\n\">https:\/\/kizhakkutoday.in\/india75-14\/<br><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/states\/tamil-nadu\/2022\/aug\/16\/kallakurichi-12th-centurystatues-of-chola-kings-go-missing-2487932.html?fbclid=IwAR2_4gY0LW2S1le9Pb5-MwtuP_ZuHLG2gOaRrBq2HN756fo4niAKXpxzp0o\n\">https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/states\/tamil-nadu\/2022\/aug\/16\/kallakurichi-12th-centurystatues-of-chola-kings-go-missing-2487932.html?fbclid=IwAR2_4gY0LW2S1le9Pb5-MwtuP_ZuHLG2gOaRrBq2HN756fo4niAKXpxzp0o<br><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/chennai\/stolen-from-tamil-nadu-idol-traced-to-christies-auction-house\/articleshow\/93684573.cms?fbclid=IwAR0OY0vJrnTj6O_FWbNKBzWSkq5OzhtSXaxPQTsXpUvlsB0277QtvNfVsZE\n\">https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/chennai\/stolen-from-tamil-nadu-idol-traced-to-christies-auction-house\/articleshow\/93684573.cms?fbclid=IwAR0OY0vJrnTj6O_FWbNKBzWSkq5OzhtSXaxPQTsXpUvlsB0277QtvNfVsZE<br><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/chennai\/efforts-are-on-to-retrieve-six-antique-idols-stolen-from-tn-temple-tn-idol-wing-cid\/articleshow\/93756404.cms?from=mdr\n\">https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/chennai\/efforts-are-on-to-retrieve-six-antique-idols-stolen-from-tn-temple-tn-idol-wing-cid\/articleshow\/93756404.cms?from=mdr<br><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/chennai\/two-out-of-12-idols-stolen-from-nagapattinam-temple-50-years-ago-traced-to-us\/article65825521.ece?homepage=true&amp;fbclid=IwAR2534-Mtwj9yViaG9Qc-NIEMzeB-Vygkphn2mudxBMHjbFrhJzPygcQpvk\n\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/chennai\/two-out-of-12-idols-stolen-from-nagapattinam-temple-50-years-ago-traced-to-us\/article65825521.ece?homepage=true&amp;fbclid=IwAR2534-Mtwj9yViaG9Qc-NIEMzeB-Vygkphn2mudxBMHjbFrhJzPygcQpvk<br><\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI, INDIA, September 7, 2022 (IFP): The French Institute of Pondicherry in collaboration with the Idol Wing CID of the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18898","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18904,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18898\/revisions\/18904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}