A Naga delegation poses for a group photo at the end of a ceremony at Oxford University's Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford on November 9, 2026, to mark the return of the remains of 39 people taken during Britain's colonial era to the Naga community in northeast India. Image source, AFP via Getty Images
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A delegation of 30 people had travelled to Oxford from India's Nagaland

ByAnbarasan Ethirajan, Global affairs correspondent and Nikita Yadav, BBC News, Delhi
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The University of Oxford has returned the remains of 39 people taken from the Naga community during British colonial rule in India.

A delegation of around 30 people from Nagaland, a mountainous state in north-eastern India, attended a ceremony at Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum on Monday to mark the handover.