Koh-i-Noor
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Nov 4, 2026
Josh GelernterHOST
The translation is Mountain of Light.
Dan GelernterHOST
Yes, the Koh-i-Noor.
Dan GelernterHOST
The Koh-i-Noor, yeah.
Dan GelernterHOST
Which Hardmut released at the Paris Exposition in 1898.
Dan GelernterHOST
It was the first ever yellow pencil, and we did a reel about this, in fact.
Dan GelernterHOST
It was such a huge success that Hardmut changed its name to Koh-i-Noor to reflect the success of that pencil.
Dan GelernterHOST
All right, next tie-breaking question, please.
Josh GelernterHOST
It is traditional in popular culture to name great apes with the surname Kong.
Alicia McCarthyCORRESPONDENT
Speaking of the crown jewels, Labour's Lord Sohota turned to British actions in 1849 when a huge and world-famous diamond became part of Queen Victoria's collection.
SohotaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Koh-i-Noor diamond was taken from his young Maharaja Dilip Singh.
SohotaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He was only 10 years old and subsequently presented to Queen Victoria.
SohotaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Many Sikhs have long maintained that the diamond was taken under duress and it was a rightful belonging to their heritage.
SohotaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Will the government consider returning the Koh-i-Noor diamond to the Sikh community as an act of historical injustice?
Alicia McCarthyCORRESPONDENT
The minister said it was the government's view that the diamond, which is still on display in the Queen Mother's crown at the Tower of London, should remain in the UK.
Alicia McCarthyCORRESPONDENT
A Conservative, Lord Hailsham, said given that museums were...
Anna RascheGUEST
You know, the Hope Diamond is not the only cursed diamond out there.
Anna RascheGUEST
The Koh-i-Noor is another very famous one.
Anna RascheGUEST
It's currently owned by the British Crown, but it was stolen from an Indian ruler on...
Anna RascheGUEST
in the 1800s, like so many things were.
speaker_0HOST
The peacock throne constructed for the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan at a cost equivalent to twice the price of the Taj Mahal was carried back to Iran.
speaker_0HOST
So was the Koh-i-Noor diamond, a stone whose subsequent journey through Afghan, Sikh and finally British hands would make it one of history's most contested objects.
speaker_0HOST
The loot from Delhi was so vast that Nader abolished taxation across Iran for three years.
speaker_0HOST
But brilliance and cruelty travelled together in Nader Shah.
Zarna GargHOST
I'm just going to refresh a beef that UK and India have.
Zarna GargHOST
Oh my God, not the Kohinoor again.
Zarna GargHOST
Yes, the Kohinoor diamond.
Zarna GargHOST
I mean, the fact that people line up to see a diamond.
Zarna GargHOST
It's a stone.
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Zarna GargHOST
I'm just gonna refresh a beef that London and UK and India have.
Zarna GargHOST
Yeah.
Shalabh GargPANELIST
Oh my God, not the Kohinoor again.
William DalrympleGUEST
I
Mohamed HassanHOST
mean, the Koh-i-Noor diamond, of course, is a very metaphorical symbol of that.
Mohamed HassanHOST
It is.
William DalrympleGUEST
The jewel in the crown in every sense.
William DalrympleGUEST
And I wrote a short book.
William DalrympleGUEST
This was my first collaboration with Anita Anand, with whom I do the podcast.
William DalrympleGUEST
And it's this extraordinary story because the Koh-i-Noor diamond, which is the symbol of all the pain of colonialism, the reason that Indians and Pakistanis and Bangladeshis and Afghans and Persians all feel this, is it's become a symbol of everything that Europeans did bad to them.
William DalrympleGUEST
And why is it still sitting in the Tower of London, they say.
Mike RigbyHOST
And that wasn't all.
Mike RigbyHOST
The Treaty of Lahore also required the Maharaja to surrender the fabled Koh-i-Noor diamond to Queen Victoria.
Mike RigbyHOST
Duleep Singh did retain his title and received a pension under the terms of the treaty.
Mike RigbyHOST
However, these were entirely conditional on his obedience to the British crown.
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Mike RigbyHOST
Real life, as it often does, offered no such clean ending.
Mike RigbyHOST
Duleep Singh never did recover the Sikh Empire.
Mike RigbyHOST
His friendship with Queen Victoria could not undo annexation, the separation from his mother or the surrender of the Koh-i-Noor diamond.
Mike RigbyHOST
His wealth and status gave him privilege, but they did not give him sovereignty.
Riley QuinnHOST
But what else does Abu Dhabi get from owning the dominant football team in the Premiership and, for a while, the world?
Musa OkwongaGUEST
Can I jump in? It's like the Koh-i-Noor diamond, isn't it? It's the jewel.
Musa OkwongaGUEST
You're having-
Hussein KesvaniHOST
Yeah