Nagaland: Oxford museum returns ancestral Naga skulls to India
BBC · 10 Nov 2026

Nagaland: Oxford museum returns ancestral Naga skulls to India

A delegation of 30 people had travelled to Oxford from India's Nagaland 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.


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