Overview
- A Letter of Intent was signed in London in the presence of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
- The agreement will bring a portion of the artifact to Assam for public viewing in 2027, the first time in the state in over a century.
- JSW facilitated contacts with the British Museum and will build a new museum in Guwahati to house the exhibition.
- Created under Srimanta Sankardeva at the behest of Koch king Nara Narayan, the textile depicts episodes from the life of Lord Krishna.
- Acquired by the British Museum in 1904 after passage through Tibet, the piece is roughly nine-and-a-half metres long, assembled from 15 panels, with major fragments also in Paris, Boston and Los Angeles.