Sources state that demands made for thousands of objects in British collections have been "significantly overstated", and that the report is "misleading"
India’s ministerial and diplomatic staff will be mobilised to secure the return of potentially thousands of artefacts taken to Britain during the days of empire, in what one source described as a 'reckoning with the past'
The British Museum could face claims for its collection of Hindu statues and the Amaravati Marbles, which were taken from a Buddhist stupa by civil servant Sir Walter Elliot and the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Indian collection could also be subject to claims