The Times view on the British Museum losses: Absent Antiquities
Leon Neal//Getty Images Frederic Kenyon, an eminent biblical scholar, wrote in 1943: “The British Museum is, next to the British Navy, the national instituti
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Leon Neal//Getty Images Frederic Kenyon, an eminent biblical scholar, wrote in 1943: “The British Museum is, next to the British Navy, the national instituti
LONDON: The beautifully handwritten note on the yellowing service record, compiled by the Punjab government in 1919 and now over a century old, is as brief as it is poignant. In faded ink, the entry for Wasawa Singh, the son of Shera, a Jat from the village of Gaike in northeast Punjab, tells the story of a young life cut short in the service of an alien empire. There are no