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At Delhi’s Purana Qila, the dimly-lit Archaeological Museum has a swanky new companion – the Gallery for Confiscated and Retrieved Antiquities, which opened on August 31. An automated, sliding-glass door leads to the gallery that celebrates the homecoming of artefacts stolen and smuggled out of the country.

A board at the entrance displays the gallery’s mandate: “The return of these historical artefacts is part of the restoration of India’s pride and an acknowledgement of history as well as a projection of India's cultural consciousness.” Another board details the meaning of such a theft and how museums, unprotected ruins and monuments