Give back the Kohinoor Diamond to India

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Give back the Kohinoor Diamond to India

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Maharaja Ranjot Singh, ruler of Punjab at the time, willed the Koh-i-noor to the Jagannath Temple in Orissa from his deathbed in 1839. But after his death the British administrators did not execute his will. On 29 March 1849, the British raised their flag on the citadel of Lahore and the Punjab was formally proclaimed to be part of the British Empire in India. One of the terms of the Treaty of Lahore, the legal agreement formalising this occupation, was as follows:

The gem called the Koh-i-Noor which was taken from Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk by Maharajah Ranjit Singh shall be surrendered by the Maharajah of Lahore to the Queen of England.

This was nothing short of petty theft by the British and should be returned to it's rightful owners, India.

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