On 1 February 1850, the jewel was sealed in a small iron safe inside a red dispatch box, both sealed with red tape and a wax seal and kept in a chest at Bombay Treasury awaiting a steamer ship ...

'It (Kohinoor) represents colonisation and bloodshed. Give it back to India. I don't see why an Indian child from India has to travel all the way to the UK to look at it and pay for it,' said ...

The Kohinoor was originally a giant diamond, weighing almost 180 carats. It was worn as an armband by Maharaja Ranjit Singh, as depicted in many portraits of the time. In this, the conclusion of ...