Kohinoor Diamond Belongs To Britain, Says Government In Supreme Court

[aakash_2410]

Close your eyes and imagine if it were BJP that was in the opposition and it was Congress that made such a statement that "Koh-i-Noor" was a gift to the UK........ you'd see blood of Muslims spilled all over India!

Nothing of that sort would have happened :/ But yeah surely BJP would have made a hoo haa in opposition just like Congress is making right now. But then again that is the job of the opposition.

 

[Spring Onion]

Am Afghan property so why would India bother even if it was looted or gifted.

 

[Dash]

Am Afghan property so why would India bother even if it was looted or gifted.

What? Afghan property? PK ho kya??

 

[باپ]

Oi we've got the bigger Punjab and Ranjit Singh was from Punjab; therefore hand it over to me !

Yeah ranjit was born in our Gujranwala

 

[Dash]

Afghan King? The Kohinoor belonged to Mughals.
Its funny how Indians distort the Muslim history to suit their propaganda.

Kohinoor was taken from Afghan royal family (wafa Begum,Shah shuja etc) who sought refuge with Ranjit Singh ji.They were Sikh pensioners and handed over the Koh e noor for their help.

It was looted from Mughals long ago.Read some standard history.


Any source ?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koh-i-Noor

Pls read it to know its source.

 

[Endeavour]

Agar agle 100 saal bhi kohinoor wapis nahi laate toh koi baat nahii thi, koi suli pe nahi chadha raha tha.
But by issuing such statement they just shot in their foot, i dont know why.

 

[HongWu002]

How dare Cameron defy the shupa powa Modi! India will make him pay a price for this slap on the face.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Utterly disgusting.

 

[Peshwa]

At this point in time, India needs to focus on its larger geo-political ambitions..and it cannot afford silly spats over a diamond with a friendly nation. We have bigger fish to fry (no pun intended).
Besides, the British took a lot more than the kohinoor (read peace away from the subcontinent), and the diamond is nothing more than symbolic..
Let's make our position stronger and then talk about retrieving lost glory..

 

[Stephen Cohen]

At this point in time, India needs to focus on its larger geo-political ambitions..and it cannot afford silly spats over a diamond with a friendly nation. We have bigger fish to fry (no pun intended).
Besides, the British took a lot more than the kohinoor (read peace away from the subcontinent), and the diamond is nothing more than symbolic..
Let's make our position stronger and then talk about retrieving lost glory..

If the British had NOT come then South Asia would have been a GIANT Afghanistan
with 300 small countries

British should keep all these useless Historical items

And we should remember why they reached there in the first place

 

[Spectre]

If the British had NOT come then South Asia would have been a GIANT Afghanistan
with 300 small countries

British should keep all these useless Historical items

And we should remember why they reached there in the first place

You underestimate the S. Asians. It is important to note that most of the current fractures were created by British.

 

[Stephen Cohen]

You underestimate the S. Asians. It is important to note that most of the current fractures were created by British.

No they were Not ; we were always like this ; fighting with each other
from the Time of Maha Bharat

At least there are 3 countries in South Asia

Have you ever seen the Map of India in 1750

What would have changed had the British not made this country into one

We would have been fighting with AK 47s and RPG s like the Afghans do

 

[Spectre]

No they were Not ; we were always like this ; fighting with each other
from the Time of Maha Bharat

At least there are 3 countries in South Asia

Have you ever seen the Map of India in 1750

What would have changed had the British not made this country into one

We would have been fighting with AK 47s and RPG s like the Afghans do

When the British started meddling, concept of nation state was still to catch up here but it had fertile grounds to develop as India has been in numerous occasions in part have been under an unified rule. Who is to say that the same could not have happened again minus the hindu muslim divide and as a result arbitary borders which was expressly promoted by British.

What British did was to speeded up a naturally occurring process for their gains.

 

[Stephen Cohen]

When the British started meddling, concept of nation state was still to catch up here but it had fertile grounds to develop as India has been in numerous occasions in part have been under an unified rule. Who is to say that the same could not have happened again minus the hindu muslim divide and as a result arbitary borders which was expressly promoted by British.

What British did was to speeded up a naturally occurring process for their gains.

Totally disagree

1 From the time of Mahabharat till say the Nanda ; Guptas ; Mauryas it was always
about FAMILY rule

One family died ; another came up

2 Culturally we were similar but that did not prevent us from fighting each other on the
most silly pretext

What the Rajputs did ; when faced with barbarians ;
Did they unite - NO

3 The Hindu Muslim divide was real when the British came

But the Hindu -- Hindu divide was much more damaging

Why did not ALL Hindu princes unite after Aurangzeb and the Mughal empire
had been destroyed by the Marathas

What the Heck ; even the Marathas started fighting with Rajputs AND amongst themselves

The Panipat debacle for the Marathas was because The Hindu kings could Not come under one flag

The whole sub continent was One BLOODY mess ; A GIANT Afghanistan
And it would have remained so had the British NOT come ; with 300 kingdoms

PS : I might have been Ruling one given that My ancestors had a small Kingdom
in the 18 th century which was taken over by the Brits

 

[Samandri]

It belongs to every one (Mughals, Persians, Afghans, British etc), but not to Sikhs. One-eyed raven Ranjeet Sikh took possession of it by deceit, breaking his promise with Shah Shuja.