Why India is not claiming for Kohinoor Diamond ?

Question

Sorry for Re-post. Previous question was deleted accidentally.

Kohinoor was found in the krishna Basin and was mined in Golconda of Andhra Pradesh.(Rajwant this is for u,check urself before you answer any thing).Thou India is not existed at that time(only British India) it was taken from Indian soil?

Answer 1

The history of the Koh-i-noor is long, complicated and bloody.

It was acquired by the British as part of the treaty which ended the first Sikh war (one of the few colonial wars that the Britsh neither started nor provoked - the internal politics of the Punjab were rather messy at this time) in 1842 [note - this is from memory - check all dates, spellings etc before quoting me].  The diamond was never the property of the Sikh nation.  It was the personal property of the Sikh ruler Ranjit Singh, and then briefly of his supposed heir Dalip (whose paternity was more than a little open to doubt, but never mind).  Anyway, the Koh-i-noor was acquired as spoils of war.

Ranjit Singh also acquired it as a spoil of war.  He got involved in a dynastic dispute between three brothers disputing the throne of Afghanistan.  His support was crucial to one brother (Shah Shuja), but when Ranjit claimed the K-i-N as payment, he was denied.  So he locked his former ally and his family up in a room and denied them food or water until the gem was surrendered.

So it belongs in Afghanistan?  Not really.  It had been in Afghanistan for three generations, but had come there from Persia.  It was owned by the emperor (whose name escapes me), after whose overthrow one of his generals, Ahmad Shah made off with it and set himself up in Afghanistan.

So it belongs in Persia?  Admittedly it was in Persia that it got its name - the Mountain of Light - but a previous Persian, Nadir Shah got it when he sacked Delhi.  Back to India.

It had previously been the property of Babur, first Moghul Emperor of India.  Mind you, he wasn't actually Indian, but an invader from the north.

Previously still, it had been the property of Aladdin (yes, you read that right, though Alah-ud-din is a better spelling)......

Cut through that and work out who has the best claim over it.

From a practical point of view, for the last hundred and fifty years, no blood has been spilt over it, and it has been on public display in the Tower of London.  Let it stay there.

  

Answer 2

India has laid claim to the diamond, but the complication is its history of having traded hands multiple times.  Also, Pakistan (the first to do so), Iran, and the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan have claimed the Koh-i-Noor diamond.

The main reason why the British have told them "no" has to do with the terms of the Treaty of Lahore of 1849, which spelled out the terms for the diamond's transfer from the Maharajah of Lahore to Victoria, the Queen of England.