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Kohinoor Display Gets 'Transparent' Makeover At Tower Of London
The Kohinoor diamond will go on display with a new exhibition at the Tower of London on Friday within a "symbol of conquest" setting to try and contextualise its turbulent colonial history in a "transparent, balanced and inclusive" way.
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Ashish Nehra, Kohinoor Memes Flood Twitter As Rishi Sunak Becomes UK PM
Rishi Sunak will tomorrow become the first Indian-origin Prime Minister of Britain. While many Indians are delighted at Rishi Sunak creating history, some on social media decided to use the opportunity to showcase their creativity.
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Blog: A New, More Vibrant History-Telling for Children
It appears that historians have heard the lament of the history classrooms. For every overwhelmingly dull history text book you've ever read, there is now a slew of deeply researched, articulately expressed works on history that give the reading public access to the subject as never before. There are brightly illustrated books on history crowding t...
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Koh-i-Noor, With History As Bloody As Game Of Thrones, Inspires New Book
Many precious stones have a blood-soaked history, but a new book reveals the world's most famous diamond the Koh-i-Noor surpasses them all, with a litany of horrors that rivals "Game of Thrones".
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Opinion: Bring Back The Kohinoor? You Can't Be Serious.
How strong is an Indian case for getting back the Kohinoor diamond from Britain? It depends on whether one considers this in terms of law, politics, history or morality.
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Kohinoor Display Gets 'Transparent' Makeover At Tower Of London
The Kohinoor diamond will go on display with a new exhibition at the Tower of London on Friday within a "symbol of conquest" setting to try and contextualise its turbulent colonial history in a "transparent, balanced and inclusive" way.
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Ashish Nehra, Kohinoor Memes Flood Twitter As Rishi Sunak Becomes UK PM
Rishi Sunak will tomorrow become the first Indian-origin Prime Minister of Britain. While many Indians are delighted at Rishi Sunak creating history, some on social media decided to use the opportunity to showcase their creativity.
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Blog: A New, More Vibrant History-Telling for Children
It appears that historians have heard the lament of the history classrooms. For every overwhelmingly dull history text book you've ever read, there is now a slew of deeply researched, articulately expressed works on history that give the reading public access to the subject as never before. There are brightly illustrated books on history crowding t...
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Koh-i-Noor, With History As Bloody As Game Of Thrones, Inspires New Book
Many precious stones have a blood-soaked history, but a new book reveals the world's most famous diamond the Koh-i-Noor surpasses them all, with a litany of horrors that rivals "Game of Thrones".
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Opinion: Bring Back The Kohinoor? You Can't Be Serious.
How strong is an Indian case for getting back the Kohinoor diamond from Britain? It depends on whether one considers this in terms of law, politics, history or morality.
