Kohinoor : the story of the world's most infamous diamond / by William Dalrymple & Anita Anand.

By:

Dalrymple, William [author.]

Contributor(s):

Anand, Anita [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Delhi : Juggernaut Books, 2016Description: viii, 239 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color), genealogical table ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9789386228086 (hbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23 553.82 DAL 015154

Summary: "The Koh-i-noor is the world's most famous diamond, but it has always had a fog of mystery around it. Now, using previously untranslated Sanskrit, Persian and Urdu sources, and the discoveries of modern gemmologists to reconstruct its original form, William Dalrymple and Anita Ananad blow away the legends to reveal its true history--stranger, and more violent, than any fiction."--From dust jacket.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	553.82 DAL 015154 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		015154

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.

"The Koh-i-noor is the world's most famous diamond, but it has always had a fog of mystery around it. Now, using previously untranslated Sanskrit, Persian and Urdu sources, and the discoveries of modern gemmologists to reconstruct its original form, William Dalrymple and Anita Ananad blow away the legends to reveal its true history--stranger, and more violent, than any fiction."--From dust jacket.

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