Kohinoor: The Light of the World

NEW YORK, September 20, 2018 - Perhaps no other gem has a more riveting and contested history than the Kohinoor, a diamond whose "cursed" journey takes it from the mountains of Andra Pradesh, India to Her Majesty the Queen of England's crown jewels. Author William Dalrymple and Ambassador Navtej Sarna dismiss the legends surrounding the jewel to present a true story that is stranger and bloodier than any work of fiction. Their discussion, introduced by the Metropolitan Museum's Curator of Islamic Art Navina Haidar, was part of JLF at New York, a daylong celebration of literature, culture, and ideas. (46 min., 39 sec.)

[@rc9363]

🎉

[@MostCommentsAreFake-ud8by]

I am thinking Prince Charles should gift the diamond to India. It seems to mean far more to them than it does to British people. In exchange for a trade agreement with 1.3 billion people.

[@MostCommentsAreFake-ud8by]

utubetruthteller utubetruthteller- you have a small mind. The diamond was aquired legally. The written agreement still exists today with signatures. Far more legally than the war-lords who used to steal it from each other before the civilised British arrived. With a closed market India will only ever be a second rate economy.

[@17jindan]

@@MostCommentsAreFake-ud8by ....from a 10 year old boy??....due to the War allowed to break out while the Brits were in charge - albeit cooling themselves in the hills... and it was NOT a SIKH Kingdom rebellion ?!?

[@MostCommentsAreFake-ud8by]

@@17jindan - `a war allowed to break out`. You seem to think British are superhuman who can stop a war.