Should Britain Give Back The Koh-I-Noor Diamond To India?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3308671/Indians-sue-Queen-return-100m-jewel-crown-Bollywood-stars-businessmen-launch-legal-battle-105-carat-diamond-say-stolen-country.html

[viv41]

Wasn't it a gift to Queen Victoria ?

[jomifl]

Perhaps India will give back their railway system, just to show that they are being fair.

[Answerprancer]

[Spoken like a true patriot.
But of which country, I know not]

[The usual anti-British reasoning, one has come to expect from this ABer. ]

Just who do you think you are to pass judgement like this?!

You ask people's opinions and then round on them when it goes against your beliefs.

That is incredibly arrogant IMO... then again, you often do this.

[Answerprancer]

I think anything that was *definitely* looted from any nation by Britain should be handed back with an apology *IF* the people of that nation in question request it.

[ToraToraTora]

thanks janbee I had no idea of your level of anti Britishness, now I do. You would like to betray the Falkland Islanders by giving them to a country that did not even exist when they where first British. There are some loonies about!

[viv41]

Does anybody have an answer to my 15.05 question?

[Gromit]

Viv41,
In Lord Dalhousie's (Governor General of India 1850) own words
// My motive was simply this: That it was more for the honour of the Queen that the Koh-i-Noor should be surrendered directly from the hand of the conquered prince (9 years old) into the hands of the sovereign who was his conqueror, than it should be presented to her as a gift. //

The diamond was confiscated by the British East India Company as compensation for the cost of the Sikh War. Part of the Treaty of Surrender (Lahore) stated the diamond was transferred to the British East India Company's Treasury as a reparation. They gifted it to Queen Victoria, not the Indians. But they made the defeated Prince, 9 years old, travel to London to hand it over.

[viv41]

But if it was 'surrended' Gromit, it wasn't 'stolen' ....

[Baldric]

I served in The Falklands War, defending the Rights of British Citizens to remain British and living on British Oversea Territory, I lost a couple of Good Mates there. The idea of handing The Islands back can only come from someone with an extremely anti British outlook given the fact that a total of 255 British servicemen and 3 female Falkland Island civilians were killed during the Conflict.

[ToraToraTora]

many thanks balders, to you and your fellow liberators. The treacherous janbee seems to have disappeared from this thread. No surprise there I suppose.

[ummmm]

My cousin was just heading to the Falklands when the war was declared over.

[Answerprancer]

String her up for high treason! From the highest scaffold!
Spread her entrails throughout christendomdomdom!

[Answerprancer]

Janbee not your cousin, Ummmm ;-)

[Jackdaw33]

The punishment for female traitors was not hanging and disembowelling but burning.

[Baldric]

Why on Earth would you want to do her physical harm AP, other than being vocal she has done nothing as far as I know?

[ummmm]

Maybe Jan doesn't know that the citizens of the Falklands want to remain British :-) and Gibraltar....

[Answerprancer]

It was a joke Baldric, a joke.

[bazwillrun]

"Just who do you think you are to pass judgement like this?!
"

well you have a record of doing it answerprancer when you dont like things on here that dont agree with your leftie perspective

[Answerprancer]

I am not a "leftie" you ingnoramus.
I'm just not a drooling sociopath like you. I know to you that is the opposite, but in reality it isn't.

[Answerprancer]

"well you have a record of doing it answerprancer".
Maybe so, but I (unlike certain others) am flexible and able to accept I may be wrong occasionally.