The Expensive Diamond Koh I Noor

Description

The koh-i-noor which means "Mountain of Light" in Persian, it is a 105 carat (21.6 g) diamond that was one times the largest identified diamond in the world. The koh-i-noor originates at Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India next to with it twice, the Darya-i-noor. It has fit in to various Hindu, Mughal, Persian, Afghan, Sikh and British rulers who scrap resentfully over it at a range of points in history and seized it as a destroy of war time and time again. It was lastly seized by the East India Company and became part of the British Crown Jewels when Queen Victoria was proclaiming Empress of India in 1877.

History Of Diamond

Historical confirmation put forward that the Kohinoor created in the Guntur district of Kakatiya kingdom, in what is at the present the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, one of the world's initial diamond manufacturing regions.The Koh-i-Noor diamond originally weighed 186 carats, when the stone was in India, Persia and Afghanistan, but, subsequently after the stone was surrendered to the British, and became part of the British Crown Jewels; the stone was re-cut to an oval stellar brilliant, weighing 108.93 carats,with a resultant loss of almost 43 % of its original weight. The diamond is a D-color diamond with exceptionl clarity, characteristic of stones originating from the Indian sub-continent.

The diamond was mined in the Kollur mines close to the township Kollur in the here day Guntur area of Andhra Pradesh. The diamond became the possessions of Kakatiya kings. The Khilji house at Delhi ruined in 1320 AD. As well as Ghiyas ud din Tughluq Shah I come up the Delhi throne. Tughlaq sent his commandant Udgal Khan in 1323 to overcome the Kakatiya king Prataparudra. Ulugh Khan's raid was disgusted other than him return in a month with a better and unwavering army.

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