What Empire Took, What Empire Left emerges from a central provocation: what happens when the sacred is violently dislocated—not only from place, but from time, ritual, and meaning? Across South Asia, deities, manuscripts, and ritual objects have been removed from living contexts and reclassified within Western museums, where they are aestheticized, contained, and severed from the cosmologies that once animated them. This exhibition confronts that rupture.

During this reading, we will be understanding and learning about the stolen artifacts in western museums and repatriation efforts made by the countries to bring them back home.

All the readings will be sent to you after your registration.

Limited to 15 participants. First come first serve.

This program is part of our exhibition – What Empire Took, What Empire Left: Museums, Borders and the Politics of Return in South Asia