• Anuradha Jha
• Rashi Singhal
• Rishika Radhakrishnan
• Laiba Ahsan

Cultural objects serve the purpose of preserving the traditions of a civilisation through time. The price of a painting (say) cannot today be reduced to the cost of its materials and the time taken to paint it. The price reflects, instead, the artistic merit and thus scarcity of the painting, assessed by subjective consensus in terms of conception, originality, content, style, execution and so forth— the painting is said to have cultural value. Many cultural objects have a religious or otherwise ritual significance. Objects with such time traversing value are bound to catch the eyes of thieves and their theft has been a popular issue among the academicians. Some cultural objects can mean different things to different people. Through this paper, we intend to analyse the significance of these objects, the laws and conventions related to them, the lacunas, the organisations working to protect them and some solutions. The paper is concluded by a case study.

Cultural Artefacts, Heritage , Community Participation , Inherent and attached Value

"Cultural Objects' Theft", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no.h427-h439, July-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307754.pdf

"Cultural Objects' Theft", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no. pph427-h439, July-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307754.pdf