It was made for the coronation of Elizabeth’s father, King George VI, in 1937, replacing the crown made for Queen Victoria in 1838. The golden, jewel ... year India—a former British colony ...

The Imperial Crown of India was made especially for King George V's 1911 visit to India. Back then, India was still under the rule of the British Empire, and George wanted to be crowned as Emperor ...

On 1 February 1850, the jewel was sealed in a small ... Kohinoor has been a part of the jewels for the British crown ‘Escape the heat’ 9 Stunning Indian getaways under ₹50,000 this summer ...

Many British and Indian civilians were also killed in ... reasons some historians say the colony became known as the ‘jewel in the crown’. Imports such as silk and cotton were brought from ...

This last episode tells how a foreign multinational (the East India Company ... "Mutiny" the British state took over and turned this supremacy into the Raj, the jewel in the crown of the greatest ...

To the British, India served as the jewel of the British Empire. The coffers of Britain overflowed with wealth extracted from the subcontinent. The initial acquisition of India under the British ...