Koh-i-Noor : the history of the world's most infamous diamond
Dalrymple, William2017
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Total copies: 2
On 29 March 1849, the 10-year-old Maharajah 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 to the British East India Company in a formal Act of Submission to Queen Victoria not only swathes of the richest land in India, but also arguably the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond.
Main title:
Koh-i-Noor : the history of the world's most infamous diamond / William Dalrymple, Anita Anand.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2017.
Collation:
vi, 335 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: New Delhi: Juggernaut Books, 2016.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408888841 (hbk)140888884X (hbk)9781408888858 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
736.23 DAL736.23739.27
LC class:
NK7663
Language:
English
BRN:
306180