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 the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great fort in Lahore. There, in a public ceremony, the frightened but dignified child handed over great swathes of the richest country in India in a formal Act of Submission to a private corporation, the East India Company. He was also compelled to hand over to the British monarch, Queen Victoria, perhaps the single most valuable Koh-i-Noor - William Dalrymple, Anita Anand od authora William Dalrymple, Anita Anand a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
William Dalrymple, Anita Anand |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
352 |
Rok vydání |
2018 |
Typ |
filmy |
Nakladatelství |
Bloomsbury |