I bet the "great mogul diamond" from Shah Jahan's peacock throne is the blue diamond on the 2nd floor of the Natural history museum here in DC.............the Hope diamond...................and it is not from India................at least not originally...........oh boy.......u had better wake up..........




Nadir Shah's invasion of India culminated in the Battle of Karnal on February 13, 1739 and the defeat of Muhammad Shah. Nadir Shah entered Delhi and sacked the city, in which course tens of thousands of inhabitants were massacred. Persian troops left Delhi at the beginning of May 1739, taking with them the throne as a war trophy with many other treasures, amounting to a large reduction in Mughal wealth and an irreplaceable loss of cultural goods and treasures. Among the known precious stones that Nadir Shah looted were the Akbar Shah diamond, Great Mughal diamond, Great Table diamond, Koh-i-Noor, Shah diamond, as well as the Samarian spinel and the Timur ruby. These stones were either part of the Peacock Throne or other thrones, or were in possession of the Mughal emperors. The Akbar Shah was said to form one of the eyes of a peacock,^[10] as well as the Koh-i-Noor.^[11] The Shah diamond was described by Tavernier as being on the side of the throne.^[12] Many of these stones ended up becoming part of the Persian crown jewels or were taken later by the British colonialists.