Koh-i-Noor av William Dalrymple, Anita Anand

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<p>''<b>Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor</b>'' Tarquin Hall, <i>Sunday Times</i><br>''<b>Dynamic, original and supremely readable</b>'' Maya Jasanoff, <i>Guardian</i><br><br><b>The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world.</b><br><br>On 29 March 1849, the ten-year-old maharaja of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great fort in Lahore. There, in a public ceremony, the frightened but dignified child handed over great swathes of the richest country in India in a formal Act of Submission to a private corporation, the East India Company. He was also compelled to hand over to the British monarch, Queen Victoria, perhaps the single most valuable object on the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond. The Mountain of Light.<br><br>The history of the Koh-i-Noor may ha