Kohinoor : The Story of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
by Dalrymple, William and Anand, Anita
Series: The Platinum Series Published by : Oxford University Press (New York) Physical details: viii,239 Pages 22x14 cm | PB ISBN:9780199405459.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 909 B849R 2001 Revolution and Conflict | 909 B863L 1963 The Living World of History | 909 C212G 1979 100 Great Kings, Queens : And Rulers of the World | 909 D136I 2017 Kohinoor : The Story of the World's Most Infamous Diamond | 909 D693H 2016 The History Book | 909 D873W 2016 World history : Volume II since 1500 | 909 D947H 1995 Hindustan : Tareekh, Tehzeb, Tamdan, Falsafa : The story of civilization |
Includes Colored Illustrations, Index and Bibliography.
The Koh-i-Noor is the world's most famous diamond, but it has always had a fog of mystery around it. Now using previously untranslated Sanskrit, Persian, and Urdu sources, and the discoveries of modern gemmologists to reconstruct its original form, William Dalrymple and Anita Anand blow away the legends to reveal its true history - stranger and more violent than any fiction. Kohinoor is a tale of greed, conquest, murder, torture, colonialism, and appropriation. Revealing previously unknown moments in the diamond's history, the story sweeps from the century the Koh-i-Noor spent embedded in the Mughals' fabulous Peacock Throne to the years it languished unrecognized on a mullah's desk, used as a paperweight, through to the torture chamber in an attempt to extract the truth about the gem's hiding place. It is now locked in the Tower of London, where it continues to arouse passions as India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Taliban all demand its return.
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