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020 _a9788193876732 (PB)
041 _aeng
080 _a94(54)
_bDAL
100 _aDalrymple, William
245 _aKohinoor
_b: The Story of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
260 _bJuggernaut
_c2016
_aNew Delhi
300 _aviii, 239 p.
_bcol. ill.
520 _aThe 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 gemologists 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
650 _aIndian History
650 _aCrown Jewels
650 _aGreat Britain
690 _aGeneral
700 _aAnand, Anita
942 _cBK
999 _c60305
_d60305