Historian William Dalrymple's The Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 is a magisterial new look at the First Afghan War, in which British and East India Company troops invaded ...
However, Maharaja Ranjit Singh later took possession of the diamond from Shah Shuja, and the diamond finally returned to India. In 1849, a battle took place between the Sikhs and the British ...
The British East India Company and Lord Auckland, Governor General of India, favoured Shuja Shah, from whom Barakzai had wrested power. An army, under the command of General Sir Willoughby Cotton ...