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Should Britain Give Back The Koh-I-Noor Diamond To India?
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//It was looted by our conquering army//
//The diamond was originally owned by the Kakatiya dynasty, which had installed it in a temple of a Hindu goddess as her eye. The diamond changed hands between various feuding factions in the region several times over the next few hundred years.//
//The gem called the Koh-i-Noor which was surrenderd by Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk to Maharajah Ranjit Singh and then surrendered by the Maharajah of Lahore to the Queen of England.//
After being looted by various factions and even finding it way to both Afghanistan and Persia in the early 1700s, gromit says we looted it Haha.
//The diamond was originally owned by the Kakatiya dynasty, which had installed it in a temple of a Hindu goddess as her eye. The diamond changed hands between various feuding factions in the region several times over the next few hundred years.//
//The gem called the Koh-i-Noor which was surrenderd by Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk to Maharajah Ranjit Singh and then surrendered by the Maharajah of Lahore to the Queen of England.//
After being looted by various factions and even finding it way to both Afghanistan and Persia in the early 1700s, gromit says we looted it Haha.
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/// Despite the country's vast population, there were never more than 70,000 British troops in India; the running of the country required an enormous infrastructure of native troops, police and bureaucrats. As Hitler observed, Indians merely had to spit all at once and every Briton in India would have drowned. ///
India and the Indian people have much to thank the British for.
/// Indians assisted with Empire because it brought them unprecedented order and civility. Indians were no strangers to outside rulers; for eight centuries before the Raj, the sub-continent had been subjected to the plunder and depravity of the Mughals - Muslim rulers who came from as far west as Turkey. ///
But it would seem some have never changed.
/// Delhi was razed eight times in that period and great pyramids were constructed with the skulls of its inhabitants. ///
/// Because Islam permits the enslavement of non-Muslims, Indians were sold across the Islamic world in such quantities that the international price of slaves collapsed. ///
/// The Afghan mountain range of the Hindu Khush (which translates as the 'Hindu Slaughter') is named after the huge numbers who died there while being marched to the markets of Arabia and Central Asia. ///
/// Despite the country's vast population, there were never more than 70,000 British troops in India; the running of the country required an enormous infrastructure of native troops, police and bureaucrats. As Hitler observed, Indians merely had to spit all at once and every Briton in India would have drowned. ///
India and the Indian people have much to thank the British for.
/// Indians assisted with Empire because it brought them unprecedented order and civility. Indians were no strangers to outside rulers; for eight centuries before the Raj, the sub-continent had been subjected to the plunder and depravity of the Mughals - Muslim rulers who came from as far west as Turkey. ///
But it would seem some have never changed.
/// Delhi was razed eight times in that period and great pyramids were constructed with the skulls of its inhabitants. ///
/// Because Islam permits the enslavement of non-Muslims, Indians were sold across the Islamic world in such quantities that the international price of slaves collapsed. ///
/// The Afghan mountain range of the Hindu Khush (which translates as the 'Hindu Slaughter') is named after the huge numbers who died there while being marched to the markets of Arabia and Central Asia. ///
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Our conduct in India, and whether we were good rulers is irrelevent.
The diamond is a spoil of war and we should keep it. But we should not kid ourselves how we got it.
The Sikhs lost the war with the British East India Company, and as part of the surrender agreement, which was very punitive, the diamond's ownership was transferred to Queen Victoria. It wasn't 'gifted' willingly. The Sikhs were staring down the barrel of a gun when they surrendered.
Our conduct in India, and whether we were good rulers is irrelevent.
The diamond is a spoil of war and we should keep it. But we should not kid ourselves how we got it.
The Sikhs lost the war with the British East India Company, and as part of the surrender agreement, which was very punitive, the diamond's ownership was transferred to Queen Victoria. It wasn't 'gifted' willingly. The Sikhs were staring down the barrel of a gun when they surrendered.
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