At the beginning of 1997, the exhibition of the PiidsbiJbnama from The Royal Library, Windsor Castle opened at the National Museum, New Delhi. The exhibition was very popular and well attended, and received favourable comments from Indian scholars and the press. However, there was a complaint often voiced by these same people: "What a pity it is that all the best pieces of Indian painting have been taken out of our country, and are now in European and American collections!"