New Delhi: After the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarchy in Britain, the demand for returning the Kohinoor diamond to India is rising again on social media. The 105-carat diamond will pass to his wife, Duchess Cornwall Camilla, as the Queen’s son Prince Charles takes over the throne. The Kohinoor is a large, colorless diamond found in South India in the early 14th century.
It fell into the hands of Britain during the colonial period and is now a subject of historical ownership dispute, which is claimed by at least four countries, including India. After the death of the Queen, some Twitter users took this matter seriously in the demands of bringing Kohinoor back on social media, while some raised the issue with ridicule.
Someone has posted a clip on Twitter from the movie ‘Dhoom 2’ in which the Hrithik Roshan starrer steals a diamond from a moving train. The post read, ‘Hrithik Roshan Our diamond, pearl from the British Museum; Kohinoor has set out to bring back India.’ Another tweet read that ‘Queen Elizabeth II was actively involved in colonialism. Now can we get our Kohinoor back?’
A Twitter user named Ashish Raj wrote, ‘Sad that the Queen has passed away. Now can we get our Kohinoor back? was not handed over to the British.
However, the Government of India’s stand in the Supreme Court was that this diamond, worth about $ 200 million, was neither stolen nor forcibly taken away by the British rulers, but the former rulers of Punjab gave it to the East India Company. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has written in the book ‘An Era of Darkness’ that the Kohinoor was once claimed to be the world’s largest diamond weighing 158.6 grams.
It is believed that the first diamond was found in the 13th century near Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. Some experts say that Nadir Shah named the diamond Kohinoor. The Government of India has been demanding the return of Kohinoor many times. The first demand in this regard was made in 1947. However, the British government has been rejecting the claims of Kohinoor of India.
