British Library sends India gifts

• Eastern Eye Staff
• 15 December, 2016

By: Eastern Eye Staff

The British Library is sending a copy of the Magna Carta to the Jaipur Literary Festival and Shakespeare’s First Folio to a museum in Mumbai as part of the UK-India Year of Culture 2017. The year of culture was agreed between Narendra Modi and David Cameron when the Indian prime minister visited the UK in November last year. The British Library announced last week that it “will be partnering with the Jaipur Literature Festival to host a series of events in Jaipur and London during 2017. In January the Library will be part of the programme in Jaipur that looks…

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