Tag: Diamonds
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Golconda’s Diamond Rush: How India’s Mines Supplied the World’s Luxury Market in the 17th Century
*By Historical News Team | Sanskrit Saga* **GOLCONDA, 1660s** — In an era before South African or Brazilian diamond fields were discovered, India’s legendary Kollur mine stands as the undisputed global center of the diamond trade, producing stones of such extraordinary size and quality that merchants travel thousands of miles to access its treasures. “The…