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The bloody legend diamond

 

Koh-I-Noor is a diamond with a violent history, it is part of the British Royal Family. “It was shown as the property of Queen Victoria for the first time in public during the Great Exhibition of 1851”. (Performance of British Material Culture). Indians wanted to return it after the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to India. Sultan Babur recorded in his diary that; Koh-I-Noor was owned by Sultan Alauddin in the 13^th century. After Persian invaded India in 1739, they take it and then gave it to the Mughals. Koh-I-Noor stayed at Lahore until British governed India and took the diamond in place of Lahore government loans. Koh-I-Noor weighed about 186 carats. “In 1852 the Queen decided to reshape the diamond and it was taken to a Dutch jeweler, Mr. Cantor who cut it to 108.93 carats”. (Kohinoor diamond organization). The diamond was last seen to public in April 2002.

 

 

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References

Rokh, S., son, N., & empire., f. o. (n.d.). Koh-i-Noor: The jewel in the British crown with a very murky past - The National. Latest and breaking news | thenational.ae - The National. Retrieved March 17, 2013, from http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/south-asia/koh-i-noor-the-jewel-in-the-british-crown-with-a-very-murky-past

 

 

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