secretary at the indian high commission in london and bijay selvaraj consul general of the consulate general of india in edinburgh glasgow life said the visit of the indian delegation was another milestone in the citys efforts to return more than 50 cultural artefacts to the descendants of their true owners the largestever repatriation of objects from a single collection in scotland it is also repatriating 19 benin bronzes to nigeria work that has been ongoing since it was established the artefacts acquired as gifts bequests and from auction houses were taken from sacred sites and ceremonial buildings during the british punitive expedition of 1897