Is there any "Hope"?

British Prime Minister David Cameron has refused to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond to India.
I look at it two ways:
Finders keepers. The thingy has been there for quite a while. Let it be.India has gained quite a lot from the British-maybe not quantifiable like the dollar value of a diamond,but far more valuable than that I would say.The very fact that I am posting in English is proof of that.There is nothing like a worthy adversary to unite people under one banner and the British were that if not anything in India.And at the forefront of the freedom movement were a lot of men educated in the British style if not in Britain itself.Even now the style of education in most schools is the classical method that was introduced during the British period in India.I always wonder if India would have attained democracy if the British hadn't colonised us.Really.We probably would have been this country with rival kingdoms fighting for land and such with each other and would never have coalesced into this nation we see today.It might have happened eventually, but with far more bloodshed and far worse consequences for all concerned.Like I mentioned, there were rival Rajas galore in India but except for the Mughals, never such a huge behemoth threatening the existence of the country as a whole and stripping off of the resources of a country as a whole.The British policy of divide and rule only went so far-people cottoned on to the fact that no one was immune to their colonising avarice and friend or foe,if you had something they wanted,they would get it by hook or crook.The "Doctrine of lapse" is proof of that.So the country in its entirety was compelled to unite and rise against the oppressors-which unity is lasting into this millennium and hopefully will for much much longer.
So we have the British to thank for where India is now.It could have been far worse.
Secondly,India is corrupt enough that returning the Koh-i-Noor might spell doom for the diamond.It might end up being chopped up and divided between a few politicians who want it for their mistresses' bracelets.Or each state would fight for a share of the diamond and have it cut up,or,I am not sure where in India the diamond is from(Andhra Pradesh,I think),but that state might ask to keep it......see my point?Or worse still ,it might require a fortune to safeguard it and put it on display-with millions in India going hungry to bed everyday,I think it would be unconscionable to waste money that way.Other than the fact that it would have been returned to its rightful owner,nothing much would come out of this endeavor.
Also this would open up a slew of requests to return things to their rightful owners!The British empire has a few trillion dollars worth of 'stolen' goods on display at their museums and if one is returned,does that not open the door to calamity?The Elgin Marbles comes to mind.I am sure they have enough stuff from the Summer Palace in Beijing to fill  another palace-another Elgin was behind this looting.And so the list goes on.Britain might have to pauper itself to pay back everything it  appropriated from its colonies.I don't think they are doing well enough to make reparations for past indiscretions.So,let sleeping dogs .....uh... diamonds lie on velvet cushions in bullet proof glass cases I say!