| Title of
the Event |
Koh-i-noor |
| Date(s) of
the event(s) |
July 03, 1850
- It reaches the Crown of the Queen of England |
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Description |
- It literally means ‘Mountain of Lights’.
- Once it was the largest known diamond in the world.
- It is presumed that it came from the
Kollur mines in the present-day Guntur
district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
- Originally, it belonged to Kakatiya Dynasty, that ruled
most of the Telugu speaking areas from 1083 till 1323.
- According to Babur, it belonged to a Raja of
Gwalior, who was forced to hand it over to
Alauddin Khilji in 1294.
- Thereafter, it was owned by the Tughlaq dynasty
and Lodī dynasty, and finally came into the
possession of Bābur himself in 1526.
- Humayun’ s son, Akbar, did not keep this diamond with
him.
- Akbar’s grandson, Shah Jahan, took it
from his treasury. Sometime later he was overthrown
by his own son, Aurangzeb.
- Aurangazēb later brought it and it stayed with him until
the invasion of Nādir Shāh of Iran in 1739
and the ransacking of Agra and Delhi. Along with the
Peacock Throne, he also carried off the
Koh-i Noor to Persia in 1739.
- It was Nadir Shah, who gave it its present name.
- There is no reference to this name before 1739.
- After the assassination of Nādir Shāh in 1747,
the stone came into the hands of his general, Ahmad
Shāh Durrānī of Afghanistan.
- In 1830, Shujāh Shāh Durrānī, the
deposed ruler of Afghanistan, managed to flee with
the diamond.
- He went to Lahore where Ranjīt Singh forced him
to surrender it; in return for the Afghan throne.
- After the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1839, the
Punjab was formally proclaimed as
part of the British empire in India.
- On July 03, 1850, on the eve of the
celebrations of 250th anniversary of the East India Company,
the Koh-i-noor diamond was handed over by the
Company to Queen Victoria.
- That is how the Stolen Jewel became a part of
the Crown of Queen of England.
- From then onwards, the empire of the
British started shivering and shrinking,
and its position today is more than obvious.
- The queen of almost half of the world
before acquiring Koh-i-noor, is today the queen of
an area that is less than 80% of Andhra Ptadesh State of
India, where this diamond was originated.
- It appears that this diamond carries a curse with it.
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