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The crown is decorated with about 2,800 diamonds, most notably the 105-carat (21.0 g) Koh-i-Noor in the middle of the front cross, which was acquired by the East India Company after the Anglo-Sikh Wars and presented to Queen Victoria in 1851, [2] and a 17-carat (3.4 g) Turkish diamond given to her in 1856 by Abdulmejid I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, as a gesture of thanks for British support ...
The Koh-i-Noor is a central plot point in George MacDonald Fraser's 1990 historical novel and satire, Flashman and the Mountain of Light, which refers to the diamond in its title. [87] Kohinoor, a 2005 Indian mystery television series, follows a search for the diamond after its supposed return to India. [88]
Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond is a 2017 book on the Koh-i-Noor diamond written by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand. [1] The gem is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, weighing 105.6 carats (21.12 g), and part of the British Crown Jewels. Koh-i-Noor is Persian for "Mountain of Light"; it has been known ...
The kohinoor diamond was founded in Indian soil. It represents to the British their dark brutal colonial history. They have NO BUSINESS in continuing to benefit from colonisation.
The diamond found its way through the hands of several dynasties, beginning with the Mughals in the 16th century, then the Persians and then the Afghans, before the Sikh Maharaja Ranjit Singh ...
The huge diamond is steeped in history and controversy over how it came to be in the possession of British royalty
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Another theory postulates that the diamond had made its way back to the Indian subcontinent by the 19th century. [2]Detail of the Daria-i-Noor (right, within an armlet) as it appeared in the possession of the Sikhs, from a painting of Maharaja Sher Singh by August Schoefft, ca.1841–42