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The Crystal Palace Exhibition held in Hyde Park in London in 1851 was best known among Indians as the locale where the Koh-i-noor diamond was open for public viewing for the first time. What is lesser known is that it was the first in a series of world fairs, exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century.      Kaiwan Mehta          Dr Firdaus Gandavia (left) and Dr Nawaz Mody   The exhibitions held over the past century-and-a-half, of which the Crystal Palace Exhibition alone attracted an estimated six million visitors, saw the "coming together of art and industry,” stated Kaiwan Mehta.......