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Rearview Mirror Chronicles
Keith Hockton, FRAS, is a writer, publisher, and award-winning podcaster based in Penang, Malaysia, with a deep passion for uncovering the stories that shaped our world. As the Southeast Asia Editor for International Living magazine, Keith explores the intersections of history, culture, and modern life across the region.
A dynamic lecturer and storyteller, he speaks internationally on Southeast Asian politics, economics, and history—bringing the past to life with clarity, wit, and insight. Keith is also a proud Fellow of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and is on a mission to make history not only accessible but genuinely entertaining for everyone.
His published books include:
• Atlas of Australian Dive Sites - Travellers Edition (Harper Collins Australia, 2003).
• Penang - An inside guide to its historic homes, buildings, monuments and parks (MPH Publishing, 2012; 2nd Edition 2014; 3rd Edition 2017).
• Festivals of Malaysia (Trafalgar Publishing, 2015).
• The Habitat Penang Hill: A pocket history (Entrepot Publishing, 2018)
• Alana and the Secret Life of Trees at Night (Entrepot Publishing, 2018)
• Penang Then & Now: A Century of Change in Pictures (Entrepot Publishing, 2019; 2nd Edition 2021
• Bersama Lima - Five Together (Entrepot Publishing, 2022)
www.entrepotpublishing.com
Rearview Mirror Chronicles
Who Owns The Koh-i-Noor Diamond?
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The Koh i Noor is not just a diamond. It is a trail of blood stretching across centuries.
Murder, betrayal, empire, conquest, assassinations, collapsing kingdoms, and one tiny stone that still has the power to ignite arguments across half the world. From the massacres of Mughal Delhi to the Sikh Empire, from Afghanistan to Queen Victoria and the Tower of London, the “Mountain of Light” has left chaos almost everywhere it travelled.
But who actually owns it?
India? Pakistan? Afghanistan? The British Crown?
Or has the Koh i Noor become something far larger than a jewel, a symbol of empire itself and the unresolved wounds of colonial history?
And perhaps the greatest mystery of all is this: after hundreds of years of violence and obsession, why can nobody let it go?
The extraordinary and deeply controversial story of the Koh i Noor diamond.
For books written and published by Keith Hocton