William Drimple

It's the size of a, I don't know, what is it the size of these days?

A sort of a quail's egg.

A quail's egg.

A large quail's egg.

Let's do it.

It's not that big, but this little diamond has within it the power of bringing up all the pain of colonialism.

And people in India and South Asia associate this one object with everything that was taken from them.

And so it's a hugely emotional question.

Trouble is that not only the different peoples of South Asia, but also quite a lot of peoples in Central Asia and Iran and the Middle East also claim it.

So I think it effectively allows the British to probably do their old divide and rule one last time.

Which is quite true because the museum is full of other colonial loot.

So this was the story which first brought us together, began this book and then began the Empire podcast because it does represent so much more than itself.

So anyway, that's why we thought it was worth doing our first ever emergency pod.

We get a story of bloodshed, gore, division and disorder.

And goodbye from me, William Durenpoe.