{"id":2978,"date":"2016-04-19T18:22:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T10:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/fresh-controversy-over-kohinoor-diamond-after-indian-government-says-it-was-gifted-to-britain\/"},"modified":"2016-04-19T18:22:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T10:22:15","slug":"fresh-controversy-over-kohinoor-diamond-after-indian-government-says-it-was-gifted-to-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/fresh-controversy-over-kohinoor-diamond-after-indian-government-says-it-was-gifted-to-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh controversy over Kohinoor diamond after Indian government says it was gifted to Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The controversy over who owns the fabled Kohinoor, one of the world’s largest diamonds, has got a new twist. The Indian government said that the diamond was neither “stolen nor forcibly taken away,” but was gifted to the English East India company, which ruled over parts of the Indian subcontinent in the 19th century.<\/p>\n

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The famous 105-carat diamond has been part of the British crown jewels for over 160 years, but has been claimed by the governments of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan over the years. Many believe that the gem was “stolen” by the British, with several campaigns to bring the diamond back to India. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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The controversy over who owns the fabled Kohinoor, one of the world’s largest diamonds, has got a new twist. The Indian government said that the diamond was neither “stolen nor forcibly taken away,” but was gifted to the English East … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2246,2245,782,760,732],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-diamond","tag-diamonds","tag-india","tag-uk","tag-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}