Abstract: Presently Chotanagpur is known as Jharkhand. The shankh (conch) river originates from the Gumla district of Jharkhand in India. In the pages of history, scholars have given different interpretations in different chronology about the shankh river. The shankh river flows opposite the northern koyal (cuckoo) in the western end of the Chotanagpur plateau. It originates from the southern end of the Pats region. From the historical point of view, when the Mughal emperor Jahangir had a keen interest in the hera (Diamond) being extracted from the conch river of Kokarah when Jharkhand was known as Kokarah, the Mughal emperor Jahangir had a keen interest in the way the locals got diamonds from the shankh river. He describes it in his autobiography Tuzuk e Jahangiri. The historical discussion related to Nagvanshi king Durjanshal and the then Mughal emperor Jahangir is related to the diamond itself. Some people were aware of this before the Mughal period about the diamond of King Jharkhand, Ptolemy has received evidence on this subject. It is described in one of his texts. Apart from this, many scholars have also discussed the diamond found in Jharkhand. The shankh river diamonds were also famous in India and outside India.
Keywords: Shankh, Chotanagpur, Diamond, Mughal Emperor, Kokrah, Tuzuk e jahangiri.
Title: Shankh River Diamond in Chotanagpur: in the Context of Indian History
Author: Dr. Sanjay Bara
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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