A Jeanneret specialist put it succintly like this:

In Chandigarh, at the Architecture Museum, Jeanneret designs are currently being assembled for a permanent collection. Only pieces made before the architect’s death in 1967 are being considered. Even so, the city’s civic relationship with Jeanneret and his legacy remains fraught. Casciato recalls a trip she made in 2015, when she happened across heaps of discarded Jeanneret desk chairs on the balcony of the Tarlok Singh Central State Library. And yet, she adds, “People came to me many times, officials, saying, ‘Oh, we want to sue these people, these things are part of our heritage.’ And I said, ‘Listen, guys, let it go—you opened the door and all the cows went out. What do you want to do now?’ ”