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The relics from both locations were taken to England and placed in the Victoria and Albert Museum, but some discrepancies between Cunningham's description of the caskets and the actual boxes in which the relics were deposited led to speculation that someone transferred the relics from Sanchi to the caskets discovered at Satadhara, and thus what became of the Sanchi steatite caskets is not concretely known.
The Sacred Relics were preserved there until 1939, when the Maha Bodhi Society approached the British government to request their return to India. The request was granted, but the implementation was delayed due to the Second World War. As a result, the actual transfer did not occur until 24 February 1947, to ensure safe passage.
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