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A 1966 book review in Kirkus Reviews called the novel "a slow-moving one, filled with a tremendous number of ideas, views, speculations imposed in an attempt to convey the contradictions between not only England and India, but within India itself, a cosmos in which there are many circles within circles, mystical, social, political." The review ...
There is a summary of the chapter on diamonds in Garcia de Orta's 1563 book Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India. The Mughals and the Koh-i-Noor. The chapter begins with the story of Babur establishing the Mughal Empire in India. In his autobiography, Baburnama, he discusses his jewels including large
Jewels of the Mughal Empire (12 P) N. Jewels of the Nizams of Hyderabad (5 P) Pages in category "Jewellery of India" The following 25 pages are in this category, out ...
A new Guardian report uncovers the extent of stolen jewels from India in the royal collection thanks to a 46-page file from 1912.
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Another large city in the province is Mayapore, which was the key setting in The Jewel in the Crown. The princely state of Mirat is a nominally sovereign enclave within the province. Pankot is a "second class" hill station in the province which serves as a headquarters for the 1st Pankot Rifles, an important regiment of the Indian Army, who ...
The story covers in personal terms the humbling and hasty decamping of the British: the precipitous concession of power to a country fiercely bent on division; the travails of an honorable Muslim Congressman, Mohammed Ali Kasim, and his sons, one of whom had deserted to the Japan-directed Indian National Army; the quandary of the Nawab of the small fictitious princely state of Mirat, left in ...