Perhaps efforts made by other countries to recover their treasures will help some to reflect instead of pontification. But some never learn - it is their privilege! No wonder India did not participate except sending an observer, another immigrant from wonderland!
Egypt hosts meeting on recovery of 'stolen treasures'
Sarang,
There were many foreign explorers to Egypt, who dismantled all the mummies/artifacts ruthlessly, in the name of a archeology. The locals never
cared and now Egypt is a islamic country, and egyptian ancestry may not be of any concern to them. The recent/current thefts/smuggled
statues may be accounted for.
Part of the article read "Representatives are also considering calling on the United Nations cultural body, Unesco, to amend a convention
banning export and ownership of antiquities stolen after 1970 - so that they can pursue items that were snatched earlier,
says the BBC's Yolande Knell in Cairo. "
Coming to kohinoor diamond, if returned, our indian blacksmiths (corrupt) would just exchange with Germany (Swiss banks).
Atleast now, those are in public display at the British Museum.
PS:
I am not supporting the British rule either, their judiciary is just translation of our sankriti terms of smriti/chAnakya's law.
They completely ruined our agricultural foundation [we had
famine for 12 years, and millions died] and brought in cash-crops (Cotton)
for their exports and starved us without food-crops. Our congress follows the same trend! and we are proud of the democracy than the
Sanatan Dharmic aristocracy over food/hygiene/simplicity.
Yet, even the British rulers of India could not neglect Indian cotton. For "practically till the end of the eighteenth century, no source of supply
of cotton other than India was known to the world". Even as early as in 1764, India exported about 10,000 bales of cotton to Great Britain.
But the growing Lancashire industry needed more and better cotton. Small wonder, the British Government in India "took every conceivable
measure to aid and encourage - and even to undertake - the cultivation in India of more and better cotton and its clean marketing to Great Britain".
While these efforts reduced India from riches to rags in less than half a century, and transformed the age-old ace producer of finest cotton muslins
in the world into a decayed colonial vestige supplying raw-cotton to feed the industrial revolution of both the West and East (Japan), to the dismay
of the British Government the spirit of Swadeshi also emerged simultaneously, which later fanned the freedom movement and led eventually
to the exit of the British from this country in 1947.
http://www.ecottonindia.com/history.htm
Not just cotton, they completely broke the agricultural setup and they struggled decades to come up with their methodologies. This resulted in crop
failures and forcing us to poverty, confusion, and deaths.
Their idea of sending us to schools (which were once free pAtashAlas on the road-side, to the education industry! now] was to distract us from our spirituality
and those building of railways was to distract us from farming the regular food-crops and to motivate their economies of west. And we are still proud of this trend,
while there are millions starving in the slums.
Now, We need our lost, stolen spiritual values not the Kohinoor diamond and peacock thrones!
So, the deal is over!
