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'''India Pride Project''' ('''IPP''') is a group of art enthusiasts who uses social media to identify stolen religious artefacts from Indian temples and secure their return. Co-founded in 2014 by two Singapore-based art enthusiasts, S. Vijay Kumar and Anuraag Saxena, it now has activists from all over the world.<ref>{{cite web|title=Anuraag Saxena: Returning stolen art to India|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq6b07Ln0Pc}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Facebook sleuths bring home India's stolen idols|url=http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/life-culture/facebook-sleuths-bring-home-indias-stolen-idols|website=[[Business Times (Singapore)|The Business Times]]|accessdate=2017-01-05|date=3 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Nirmala|last=Ganapathy|title=Recovering India's stolen art pieces|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/recovering-indias-stolen-art-pieces|website=[[The Straits Times]]|accessdate=11 November 2018|date=10 November 2018}}</ref>

==Recoveries==
'''[[Nalanda]]'s 12th century Buddha''': This six-and-a-half-inch bronze (with traces of silver inlay) of the Buddha seated in the bhumisparsha mudra, was stolen along with 13 other statues 1961 from the [[Archaeological Survey of India]] (ASI) site museum in Nalanda.<ref>[https://www.livemint.com/Politics/CQMHtZkX51woQKhGLHlmEO/On-Independence-Day-India-gets-back-its-12th-century-stolen.html On Independence Day, India gets back its 12th century stolen Buddha statue, Aditi Khanna, PTI, LiveMint, Aug 15 2018]</ref> It was noticed at a London auction. Fortunately a photographic record of the statue was saved by Sachindra S. Biswas, a retired director general of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). Kumar, is attempting to pursue India’s claim on another Buddha statue, suspected to be from the 1961 theft, currently at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the US.<ref>[https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/MitejLdBdImh1v8DIM3VWN/How-the-mystery-of-the-Missing-Buddha-statue-was-solved.html How the mystery of the Missing Buddha statue was solved, Bibek Bhattacharya, Aug 21 2018]</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{official website|http://ipp.org.in/}}

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