India and US sign first-ever deal for retrieval of antique objects
India and the United States on Friday their first agreement to prevent illegal trafficking of cultural property and return of antiquarian objects to their place of origin, the Ministry of Culture said.
there are "297 items" that are "lying in the US, ready to be repatriated."
India has repatriated 358 antiquities since 1976, out of these 345 have been retrieved since 2014