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May 23, 2015

[CA] Modi's Gifts to Various Head of Governments

Modi’s Gift to Various Leaders
Year
Country & heads
What Gifted?
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May 2015





Ms. Park Geun-Hye, President,
South Korea

Two finely woven pashmina stoles on which a poem that Rabindranath Tagore had written specially for Korea is hand embroidered in English and Korean
The text of Tagore’s poem that was published in 1929 in the Korean daily Dong-A Ilbo is as below:
In the golden age of Asia
Korea was one of its lamp bearers
And that lamp is waiting
To be lighted once again
For the illumination of the East








Mr. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj,
President, Mongolia




Reproduction of a rare 13th century manuscript on the history of Mongols from the Rampur Raza Library, Rampur
Called Jamiut Tawarikh, this work was one of the grandest projects undertaken by the Ilkhanate king Ghazan Khan (1295-1304) and was done by the king’s wazir Rasheeduddin Fazlullah Hamedani who wrote it in Persian and chronicled the history up to the reign of Oljeitju (1304-1316). The breadth of coverage of the work often caused it to be dubbed as the first world history. The manuscript has over 80 fine miniature illustrations. The manuscript is a part of Volume 1 of the work and no other copy of it is known to exist.





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April 2015



Mr. Stephen Carper
PM, Canada
A Miniature Painting titled Guru Nanak Dev


More Sikh Population in Canada
Shows Guru Nanak with his two disciples (Bhai Mardana and Bhai Bala)
Painting done by Jaipur based artist Virendra Bannu

Mr. Francois Hollande
President, France
Painting titled “Tree of life”

Painting done by Odisha Artist Bhaskar Mahapatra


Ms. Angela Merkel
Chancellor, Germany

Some manuscripts and papers by Sir C. V. Raman
Sir C. V. Raman had a strong connection with Germany
Sir C. V. Raman compared German Physicist Herman Von Helmboltz to Sir Issac Newton


Mr. Stefan Schostok
Mayor of Hannover, Germany
Madhubhani Painting depicting various stages of life, association with nature

Painting done by Smt. Baua Devi





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Jan 2015







Mr. Barack Obama
President, USA
A copy of the first telegram from US to India’s Constituent Assembly in 1946
Telegram was sent by the then acting secretary of State, Dean Acheson to Sachchidananda Sinha (Provisional Chairman of the Constituent Assembly)
A set of recordings from the tour of American singer Marian Anderson (1897-1993) to India in 1957 during which she sang Gandhi’s favourite hymn
Lead Kindly Light at Gandhi Smriti – the site of his assassination in the capital in 1948 which is now preserved as a memorial. 
The recordings comprise an interview Ms Anderson gave to  All India Radio, as also a video from CBS Television programme  See it Now that captured her rendition of the hymn at the Gandhi Smriti. She was the first foreign dignitary ever to have been invited to speak at the Smriti.




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Nov 2014












Mr. Tony Abbott
PM, Australia
Australian lawyer John Lang’s 1854 petition against the East India Company on behalf of Rani Lakshmibai
Born in 1816 in Sydney, Lang is generally regarded as Australia’s first native novelist. As a man of many talents, he was also a lawyer, journalist and born traveller.
In 1842, he sailed to India and made the country his new home, even learning the Hindustani language. While carrying on a successful legal practice, he started a newspaper in 1845 called The Moffusilite, published initially from Meerut and later from Mussoorie. The paper often took a critical stance against the East India Company’s harmful policies and consequently he was sued and briefly jailed by the Company.
In 1854, Lang became the counsel of Lakshmibai — an iconic figure in the Indian uprising of 1857.
A replica of the Man Singh Trophy - a prized possession of Sikh regiment battalions







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Oct 2014



Mr. Barack Obama
President, USA
A 'Gita by Gandhi' in Khadi cover

Rogan Art
Oil based art in India is the sole preserve of a Khatri Muslim family based in Kutch Region of Gujarat
Audio-video clips from the 1959 India visit of Martin Luther King.

Sep 2014
Japanese Emperor Akihito
Bhagavad Gita



Gift to Modi
Presented by
Other Trivia
Indian Sculpture Parrot Lady to Modi
Mr. Stephen Harper
Carved for placement in one of the Khajuraho Temples (Madhya Pradesh)
               

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