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Masters of Confiscations The East India company transferred wealth of local royals to London through the confiscations of Indian Royal Toshakhana s (treasury) after a systematic study of the local royals wealth. In 1855 such a confiscation was executed by Lord Dalhousie through Madras Governor, Lord George Harris on Royal Timber yard in Haliyal Uttra Kanara, present day Haliyal, North, Karnataka. The matter went uncontested and the Velliapura Kadamba Royal Family lost their only source of income, their timber yard, their only place of business, while they resided across in Portuguese territory, in Velliapura, because of this British/Portuguese territorial and administrative difference the Velliapura Royal Family was fortunate enough not to lose their life saving like other Indian royals. This was the only British confiscation which yielded equal to zero wealth to the British Royal Family. The East India Company may have had nearly 100 fruitful confiscations and many more under its belt adding billions to the wealth of the British Royal Family, almost all the information has disappeared from history. Thanks to the ‘ The Tribune’ the Kohinoor confiscation will haunt the British Royal family as long as the British Royal family survives. In 1850, Governor General Lord Dalhousie, of East India Company personally carried the huge diamond Kohinoor with him to London and induced the young Maharaja Dalip Singh to present the Kohinoor as a ‘gift’ to Queen Victoria. Maharaja Dalip Singh was earlier converted to Christianity to marry an European bride. The Kohinoor was confiscated from the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Toshakhana few years earlier by Lord Dalhousie. Maharaja Ranjit Singh was the father of Maharaja Dalip Singh. Famously named as 'The mountain of light', Kohinoor the most famous diamond of its day and an object of obsessive fascination for the colonial authority. Originally the size of an egg The Kohinoor was 186 carats ( approximately 37 gms) but was reduced to 105 carats (21.6 gms) after it was recut on the instruction of the British Royal family. It was originally mounted in a brooch, but is now set into the crown of Queen Elizabeth and on display at the Tower of London. London (TIP). The Kohinoor is currently valued at USD.20 billion. According to English law a gift once executed cannot be revoked and 'The Tribune' uses the word ‘induced’ which cannot be proved in a gifting process. In 1860 Lord Dalhousie died at the age of 48, insider information was that Lord Dalhousie was poisoned to death to conceal the gift information. Thanks to Lord Dalhousie, May his soul rest in peace. Original research by Andrew.
