被尊奉为“印度国父”的圣雄甘地一生为印度的独立事业殚精竭虑,除了随身衣物之外,没有为自己的后代留下任何财产。近来,他的遗物在纽约安蒂古伦拍卖行被拍卖,该消息在印度社会引起了轩然大波。据悉,本次拍卖的遗物是甘地当年作为礼物送给外国友人的,后来辗转成为美国人詹姆斯·奥蒂斯的个人藏品。由于这些遗物是通过合法途径流传到境外收藏者手中,印度政府不能对这些遗物的归属提出任何异议,印度法院也没有足够的法律依据来制止外国拍卖公司的商业行为。但是,为让甘地遗物回归祖国,印度政府和民众一起进行了不懈的努力。最终,印度富商维贾伊·马尔雅以180万美元的高价成功拍下了圣雄甘地的5件遗物,并宣布将其捐献给祖国。 Mahatma Ghandi, revered as the “Father of India,” spent her entire life indifferent to India’s independent cause, leaving nothing for her own descendants except for the carry-on. Recently, his relics were auctioned at the Antio Gault auction house in New York, which caused an uproar in Indian society. It is reported that the auction of the remains of Gandhi as a gift to foreign friends, and later removed as a personal collection of Americans James Otis. Because the relics were passed on to overseas collectors through legal means, the Indian government can not raise any objection to the attribution of these relics and the Indian courts do not have sufficient legal basis to stop the commercial activities of foreign auction houses. However, in order to return the relics of Gandhi to the motherland, the Indian government worked tirelessly with the public. In the end, Vijay Malya, a wealthy Indian businessman, successfully filmed five relics of Mahatma Gandhi at a high price of $ 1.8 million and announced his donation to the motherland.