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On 29 March 1849, the ten-year-old Maharajah of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great Fort in Lahore. There, in a public ceremony, the frightened but dignified child handed over to the British East India Company in a formal Act of Submission to Queen Victoria not only swathes of the richest land in India, but also arguably the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond.
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| Weight | 0.268 kg |
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| Dimensions | 13.1 × 19.7 × 2.3 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 331 , 8 unnumbered of plates |
| Language | English |
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| Dewey | 736.23 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
