Should Britain give the Koh-i-Noor to India?

Professor Lawrence Goldman, Executive Editor of History Reclaimed, was interviewed on Times Radio following reports in the Telegraph that India will wage a diplomatic campaign to claim the Koh-i-Noor diamond and thousands of other treasures from Britain.

Lawrence Goldman of History Reclaimed said:

"I think it's a bit of political mischief for a start. Modi is a Hindu nationalist, and this is a good way of bringing together his party and his electorate. It's a kind of nationalistic cause, which I'm sure plays well."

There's been plenty of discussion of this in the past, so I'm not at all surprised. But immediately it throws up an issue. To whom does this great diamond belong?

Mr. Modi says it belongs to India, but Pakistan has a claim on it. Afghanistan has a claim on it. Even Iran has a claim on it because it's existed for hundreds of years, and it's passed through many different regimes and empires.

And so you have to ask, immediately the first question which comes up with any discussion of restitution: Is it safe where it's going? And do we actually know who it belongs to? And certainly that latter question, there's no good answer."


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