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‘Our forefathers are coming back’: Naga people celebrate after Oxford museum agrees to return remains

Photo: The Guardian World

What happened

Following six years of talks, Pitt Rivers Museum will return body parts collected by British colonial administrators to north-east India Anthropologists and community leaders from Nagaland, a remote state in north-eastern India bordering Myanmar, have expressed joy and relief that human remains belonging to their ancestors that had been on display in a British museum for nearly a century are finally being returned.…

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