Woke museum willingly gives up exhibits which were 'saved by being brought to Britain'

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Woke museum willingly gives up exhibits which were 'saved by being brought to Britain'.

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A London museum has willingly given up its exhibits believed to have been saved by being brought to Britain.The Wellcome Collection has agreed to relinquish 2,000 documents of spiritual significance to Jainism, a religion with strict adherence to non-violence, known as ahimsa.The majority of the manuscripts were legally purchased from a Jain temple in the Punjab in 1919.Curators of the collection have determined the purchase by Sir Henry Wellcome was "unethical" because it was detrimental to the Jain sellers.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Ownership of the manuscripts will be now be transferred to the Institute of Jainology, a UK-based charity which represents the faith.They will then be held at a specialist library at the University of Birmingham.Mehool Sanghrajka, managing trustee for the Institute of Jainology, admitted the manuscripts may have benefitted by being brought to Britain.He told The Telegraph: "It's a very Jain way of looking at this, but there are two sides to...

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