For many in India, in particular, the Koh-i-Noor diamond is a reminder of the pain inflicted by the colonisers
seized the diamond in 1849 from its last Indian owner, a ten-year-old maharajah called Duleep Singh, and gave it to Queen Victoria. The Koh-i-Noor has glittered in Britain’s crown jewels ever since. Over the years Afghanistan, India and Pakistan have called for its return—and been ignored. For many in India, in particular, the diamond is a reminder of the pain inflicted by the colonisers.
The exhibit about the Cullinan diamonds also tiptoes around the violence of Britain’s colonial past. In 1905, in the aftermath of the Anglo-Boer war, a miner in what is now South Africa dislodged the original diamond—the biggest in the world—from which a jeweller cut nine smaller stones. The Transvaal government, a Boer republic run by white settlers, bought the fist-sized jewel and gave it to King Edward VII on his birthday.
The past is now catching up with the present. Ahead of the coronation, The Economic Freedom Fighters, a left-wing opposition party in South Africa, demanded that Britain return the diamonds. Various activists have echoed this sentiment.
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