Kohinoor: The Story of the World’s Most Infamous Diamond

by William Dalrymple

The French traveller Victor Jacquemont

‘women no longer give him any more pleasure than the flowers in his garden’.

leave the place with which his earliest associations

petition asking the Supreme Court to direct the Indian government to bring back the diamond. Representing the government, the solicitor general, Ranjit Kumar, said it was pointless to pursue such a claim since the Koh-i-Noor was ‘neither stolen nor forcibly taken’. Instead Kumar suggested