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Kohinoor : the story of the world's most infamous diamond / William Dalrymple, Anita Anand.
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TextPublisher: New Delhi : Juggernaut Books, 2016Description: viii, 239 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color), genealogical table ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789386228086DDC classification: 553.82 Summary: "The Koh-i-noor is the world's most famous diamond, but it has always had a fog of mystery around it. Now, using previously untranslated Sanskrit, Persian and Urdu sources, and the discoveries of modern gemmologists to reconstruct its original form, William Dalrymple and Anita Ananad blow away the legends to reveal its true history--stranger, and more violent, than any fiction."--From dust jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.
"The Koh-i-noor is the world's most famous diamond, but it has always had a fog of mystery around it. Now, using previously untranslated Sanskrit, Persian and Urdu sources, and the discoveries of modern gemmologists to reconstruct its original form, William Dalrymple and Anita Ananad blow away the legends to reveal its true history--stranger, and more violent, than any fiction."--From dust jacket.