Koh-i-NoorKoh i Noor by Anita Anand and William Dalrymple offers the first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh i Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world. On 29 March 1849, the ten year old Maharaja of Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great fort in Lahore. In a sombre and public ceremony, the frightened but dignified child was compelled to hand over vast swathes of the