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Entity East India Company
British East India Company, the colonial company that annexed Punjab in 1849 and presented the Koh-i-Noor to Queen Victoria in 1850.
An @rawfit_adi reel uses the Koh-i-Noor as a metaphor for India’s continuing “Kohinoors.” The historical premise is more consequential than that caption: the 1849 Treaty of Lahore required Maharaja Duleep Singh to surrender the diamond after British conquest and annexation of Punjab, alongside the loss of sovereignty and state property. Calls for return remain active,…
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