India sues the Queen for return of 'stolen' £100m diamond

Meh... They have been trying this for years, Its not the first nor will it be the last time...

Interesting that they believe that it can only be worn by a woman or a God who it makes all powerfull, but worn by a man it only brings death..

Fine, let them have it - as long as they pay back the hundreds of billions of pounds spent on welfare, housing, free education and healthcare millions of Indians have received in the UK over the past 50 or so years.

We'll return the diamond under one condition, you all leave with it. Not one indian to stay in the UK, every single one of you please fuck off back to india.

Punjab crosses the border between India to Pakistan.. so would have to split the Diamond in 2 and give each country half, plus adding your suggestion that both Indians and Pakistanis go home..

In turn this demand opens up the rift in India/Pakistan, it also opens up the demand for the re-establishment of the Sikh Kingdom.. and according to Sikhs that is when they feel the Diamond should be returned..

Just give it back the Queen has enough jewels

Not really Tess, the baggage that goes with this diamond is huge... Punjab is partitioned between India and Pakistan, and the Diamond was given by the Last Sikh ruler on the Punjab, thus in the eyes of Sikhs it should be returned only when the Sikh Kingdom has been re-estabished.. It is their artefact and neither the Hindus or Muslims have shown any respect for their heritage thus they can go whistle if they think the Sikhs are going to let either the Hindus or Muslims get their hands on their cultural/religious heritage.

Going to an interesting one to watch evolve..

You mean give it to the Sikhs or give it to the Hindus? it's a Sikh artefact, giving it back to Hindus would be like giving the Elgin marbles to Turkish..

You truly are a cupid stunt

Interesting. Maybe we should give it back to the Sikhs. Sort of 'light the blue touch paper and stand back.'

Maybe England (the rightful ruler of Ireland) should just give it back because they stole it you cupid stunt.

Give it to the Sikhs I guess. I think the Punjab state government in India is run by Sikhs so give it to them. Pakistan has gotten rid of its Sikhs so they don't deserve it.

Indian givers

If it is given back, what will the Queen use to cut the glass when she has to fix a broken window in the palace?

It certainly is going to be an interesting one... it's a restive enough region as it is, and the Sikhs are pretty keen on re-establishing their own Kingdom again..

Hi Tess, I just wonder - how much Indians are in UK? :-)

This was never Indian. It was taken when Britain annexed the Sikh Empire. It should be returned to the Sikhs in Punjab.

Giving it back to India would be a tremendous insult to the Sikhs of Punjab. The Indian government has done nothing but persecute, murder and discriminate against the Sikhs ever since they've had independence from Britain.

Aussie Moran - England isn't the ruler of Ireland. And your stupid insult doesn't hit home, because I'm English.

Okay...just after you deport all britons living there.

And before you start...is the british who went all around the globe messing with everyone. Not the other way around.

In that era - previously Spain and France had empires in many third world countries, then there were Romans, Vikings, more recently Americans. It's called history.

Why not let the bygones be bygones? If you're conquered it's futile to complain. In WWII Russia stole the region of Karelia from us, but we don't make noise about getting it back. Why would we? Russians claimed it in a war and that's it.

It wasn't stolen. The Finnish government ceded it to the Soviet Union.

The Koh-i-Noor was mined in the Kollur Mine in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh in South India during the reign of the Kakatiya dynasty in the 13th century, while the Sikh religion was only born in the 15th century !

The Sikh emperor was just the last Indian owner of the Koh-i-Noor, not the original owner ! Original owners were Hindus !


"The Mountain of Light or Koh-i-Noor (Persian) is a diamond that was mined at Kollur Mine, in the present state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It was originally 793 carats when uncut.[2] Once the largest known diamond, it is now a 105.6 metric carat diamond, weighing 21.6 grammes in its most recent cut state. The diamond was originally owned by the Kakatiya dynasty, which had installed it in a temple of a Hindu goddess as her eye.[3] The diamond changed hands between various feuding factions in the region several times over the next few hundred years."

Koh-i-Noor is believed to have been mined in the Kollur Mine in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh in India during the reign of the Kakatiya dynasty in the 13th century,[3][6] which had installed it in a temple of a Hindu goddess as her eye.[3]

"In the early 14th century, the army of Turkic Khilji dynasty began raiding kingdoms of southern India for loot (war spoils).[7][8] Malik Kafur, Alauddin Khilji's general, made a successful raid on Warangal in 1310[9] where he might have acquired the Koh-i-noor diamond.[10][11] The diamond remained with Khilji dynasty, and later passed on to the succeeding dynasties of the Delhi Sultanate, until it came into the possession of Babur, a Turco-Mongol war lord, who invaded India and established the Mughal Empire in 1526. He called the stone 'the Diamond of Bābur' at the time, although it had been called by other names before it came into his possession. Both Babur and his son and successor, Humayun mention in their memoirs the origins of 'the Diamond of Bābur'."

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Remind me when was the Queen last in court for anything ?

The more I hear about the British during colonialism, the more they remind me of the cardassians.

India has gone to sheet since Gandhi

Koh Noor Diamond belongs to the Sikhs. it was last in possession by the Sikhs