{"id":10858,"date":"2023-05-14T03:42:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T22:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10858"},"modified":"2025-03-29T23:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T17:36:24","slug":"what-is-kohinoor-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-kohinoor-diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Kohinoor Diamond?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Kohinoor Diamond:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Kohinoor\/<\/strong>Koh-i-Noor diamond (also Koh-i-Nur or K\u016bh-e N\u016br) is <strong>one of the largest and most famous cut diamonds<\/strong> in the world.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The name<\/strong> of the stone <strong>is Persian, meaning \u2018Mountain of Light\u2019<\/strong> and refers to its <strong>astounding size.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The diamond <strong>originally weighed 191 carats<\/strong>, but it was <strong>recut to 105.6 carats<\/strong> to enhance its fire and brilliance <strong>in 1852 by Garrard of London, the royal jeweller<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>History<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is believed that the diamond was <strong>first mentioned more than 5000 years ago<\/strong> in a <strong>Sanskrit script<\/strong>, where <strong>it was called the Syamantaka<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>After this first written mention, <strong>for over 4,000 years, the diamond is not mentioned.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Up until 1304<\/strong>, <strong>the diamond<\/strong> was in the <strong>possession of the Rajas of Malwa<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1304<\/strong>, <strong>it belonged<\/strong> to the Emperor of Delhi, <strong>Allaudin Khilji<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1339<\/strong>, the diamond was <strong>taken back to the city of Samarkand<\/strong>, where it <strong>stayed<\/strong> <strong>for almost 300 years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1526<\/strong> the Mogul ruler <strong>Babur mentioned the diamond in his writings<\/strong>, <strong>Baburmama<\/strong>. The diamond was <strong>gifted to him by Sultan Ibrahim<\/strong> Lodi.<\/li>\n<li><strong>From Babur, the diamond passed to Shah Jahan<\/strong> <strong>and Aurangzeb<\/strong> before coming into the <strong>possession of his grandson, Sultan Mahamad<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1739<\/strong>, the Persian general <strong>Nadir Shah defeated Sultan Mahamad<\/strong> <strong>to conquer<\/strong> Delhi \u2013 and <strong>the diamond<\/strong>. It was <strong>Nadir Shah that gave the diamond its current name.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1747, Nadir Shah was assassinated,<\/strong> and the <strong>diamond got to<\/strong> one of <strong>his generals, Ahmad Shah Durrani.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>A descendant of Ahmad Shah, <strong>Shah Shuja Durrani brought the Koh-i-noor back to India in 1813 and gave it to Ranjit Singh<\/strong> (the founder of the Sikh Empire). In exchange, Ranjit Singh helped Shah Shuja get back the throne of Afghanistan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1849, after the conquest of the Punjab by the British forces, the properties of the Sikh Empire were confiscated.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Koh-i-Noor was<strong> transferred to the treasury of the British East India Company<\/strong> in Lahore.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Since 1849, the Koh-i-Noor has been part of the British crown jewels.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a Diamond Cut?<\/h3>\n<p>Cut refers not to a diamond&#8217;s shape (e.g. round, oval, pear, etc.) but to a diamond&#8217;s proportions, symmetry and polish. The beauty of a diamond depends more on cut than any other factor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/india-news\/indias-modi-eyes-return-of-kohinoor-thousands-of-other-treasures-from-britain-592029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India\u2019s PM Modi eyes return of Kohinoor, thousands of other treasures from Britain<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kohinoor\/Koh-i-Noor diamond (also Koh-i-Nur or K\u016bh-e N\u016br) is one of the largest and most famous cut diamonds in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}