While a fellow panellist claimed that Iran and Pakistan should be allowed to claim ownership, Narinder Kaur said the diamond was...
Digital Desk: A clip showing Narinder Kaur, an Indian-origin journalist, and Emma Webb, a GB News journalist, discussing whether Britain should return the Kohinoor diamond to India has gone viral on social media.
According to social media users, the two journalists engaged in a War of words, with Kaur defending India's right to the diamond, which was confiscated by the British during India's war for independence.
The Kohinoor is one of the world's most coveted diamonds, and it has been the subject of a diplomatic feud between the United Kingdom and India.
The demand for returning the gem to India has risen since the royal decision became public.
"You are ignorant of history. It symbolises colonisation and murder. Return it to India. I don't understand why an Indian youngster from India has to fly all the way to the UK to look at it and pay for it," Narinder said during the verbal altercation, and as a fellow panellist, Webb stated the jewel was a "contested object".
"The monarch was also the ruler of Lahore thus is Pakistan going get a claim on it? It was stolen from the Iranian empire. "Since the Persian empire invaded the Mughal empire, this is a disputed object," Webb explained.
Narinder later stated in a tweet that the Kohinoor diamond was explored and crafted in India and that it should be restored to the Indian government.
History of the Kohinoor Diamond:
The Kohinoor diamond is one of the largest diamonds, and the UK claims it was "gifted" to Queen Victoria in 1849 by the 11-year-old Sikh emperor Maharaja Duleep Singh, but the accounts ignore the fact that Duleep Singh's mother Jind Kaur was an East India Company prisoner, and Governor-General of India James Andrew Broun-Ramsay aka Lord Dalhousie treated the jewel as a spoil of war.
The Kohinoor diamond was delivered to Queen Victoria and displayed in 1851, and it is now embedded on the Maltese Cross in the British emperor's crown.
The Kohinoor, also known as the Mountain of Light, was mined in the Kollur Mine on the southern bank of the Krishna River in present-day Andhra Pradesh during the time of the Kakatiya dynasty.
The Kakatiya dynasty is supposed to have set it as the left eye of the murti of the Hindu goddess Bhadrakali in a temple in Warangal.
It was looted by Muslim invaders and then passed through the hands of different Mughal Emperors and later Persian and Afghan invaders in the 16th century.
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