Endnotes

Specific files are identified by their location: Oriental and India Office Collections, British Library (OIOC), National Archives of India (NAI) and the Andhra Pradesh State Archives (APSA). All interviews were carried out in 2005 unless otherwise stated.

Introduction

1 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
2 The Times, 25 February 1967
3 The Times, 10 March 1967
4 Quoted in Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 8, p. 279

Chapter 1 The Ghosts of Golconda

1 Pioneer, 18 August 1884
2 Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Travels in India, Vol. I, p. 122
3 Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue, Great Exhibition, 1896, p. 696
4 H. M. Elliott and John Dowson, The History of India as Told by its Own Historians, Vol. 8, p. 336
5 Tavernier, Vol. I, pp. 123–128
6 Henry George Briggs, The Nizam, Vol. I, p. 34
7 Briggs, Vol. I, p. 39
8 Abraham Eraly, Emperors of the Peacock Throne, p. 490
9 Khafi Khan quoted in Elliot and Dowson, p. 325
10 Khafi Khan quoted in Elliot and Dowson, pp. 319–320
11 James Dunning Baker Gribble, History of the Deccan, Vol. I, p. 305
12 Mustaid Khan quoted in Eraly, p. 494
13 Briggs, Vol. I, p. 38
14 Yusuf Husain, Nizam u’l-Mulk, p. 42
15 Quoted in Smith, Oxford History of India, p. 257
16 Briggs, Vol. 1, p. 54
17 Husain, pp. 42–48
18 Quoted in Eraly, p. 504
19 Quoted in Eraly, p. 512
20 Quoted in Eraly, pp. 512–513
21 Quoted in Eraly, p. 512
22 Quoted in Eraly, p. 504
23 Briggs, Vol. I, p. 43
24 Husain, pp. 145–146
25 Khafi Khan quoted in Elliott and Dowson, p. 527
26 Husain, pp. 178–179
27 Khafi Khan quoted in Elliott and Dowson, p. 530
28 Bilkiz Alladin, For the Love of a Begum, pp. 45–46
29 Husain, p. 232
30 The Legacy of the Nizams, p. 21
31 Husain, p. 232
32 ‘History of the Nizams of the Dakhan’, cited in Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 4, p. 521
33 Gribble, Vol. II, p. 6
34 Pictorial Hyderabad, Vol. I, p. 63
35 Husain, pp. 284–288
36 Husain, pp. 289–290
37 The Legacy of the Nizams, p. 24
38 Briggs, Vol. I, pp. 54–55

Chapter 2 In the Court of Hyderabad

1 Nani Gopal Chaudhuri, British Relations with Hyderabad, pp. 98–99
2 Lord Birkenhead, Walter Monckton, p. 117
3 Sarojini Regani, Nizam–British Relations, pp. 8–11
4 Quoted in Husain, p. 271
5 Quoted in Husain, p. 273
6 Percival Spear, Master of Bengal: Clive and his India, p. 42
7 Quoted in Briggs, Vol. I, p. 56
8 Briggs, Vol. I, p. 57
9 Shelford Bidwell, Swords for Hire, p. 97
10 Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 4, p. 544
11 S. Bilgrami and C. Willmott, Historical and Descriptive Sketch of the Nizam’s Dominions, p. 76
12 Quoted in Bilgrami and Willmott, pp. 76–77
13 Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Complete Works of Lord Macaulay, p. 20
14 Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 4, p. 545
15 Quoted in Briggs, Vol. I, p. 59
16 Regani, p. 52
17 Regani, p. 59
18 William Dalrymple, White Mughals, p. 88
19 Briggs, Vol. I, pp. 226–230
20 Quoted in Sheikh Ali, Tipu Sultan, p. 69
21 Quoted in Sheikh Ali, p. 77
22 Quoted in Sheikh Ali, p. 77
23 Quoted in Sheikh Ali, p. 79
24 Denys Forrest, Tiger of Mysore, p. 30
25 Briggs, Vol. I, pp. 233–243
26 Quoted in Regani, p. 136
27 Quoted in Sheikh Ali, pp. 95–96
28 Quoted in Sheikh Ali, p. 204
29 Quoted in Sheikh Ali, p. 210
30 Penderal Moon, Warren Hastings and British India, p. 201
31 Quoted in Sheikh Ali, p. 314
32 Quoted in Sheikh Ali, p. 203
33 Briggs, Vol. II, p. 5
34 Quoted in Forrest, p. 158
35 Forrest, p. 159
36 Edward Thompson, The Making of the Indian Princes, p. 6
37 Thompson, p. 15
38 Thompson, pp. 14–15
39 Briggs, Vol. II, p. 9
40 Quoted in Shelford Bidwell, Swords for Hire, p. 79
41 Quoted in Regani, p. 169
42 Captain Hastings Fraser, Our Faithful Ally, The Nizam, pp. 215–216
43 Dalrymple, White Mughals, p. 135
44 Alladin, p. 54
45 Briggs, Vol. I, p. 222
46 Quoted in Bilgrami and Wilmott, p. 103
47 Thompson, p. 16
48 Thompson, p. 16
49 Briggs, Vol II, p. 387
50 Briggs, Vol. I, pp. 279–287
51 Briggs, Vol. I, pp. 279–287
52 Quoted in Regani, p. 186
53 Dalrymple, White Mughals, p. 275
54 Dalrymple, White Mughals, p. 356
55 Briggs, Vol. I, p. 84

Chapter 3 Poor Nizzy Pays for All

1 Briggs, Vol. II, pp. 70–71
2 Briggs, Vol II, pp. 72–77
3 Briggs, Vol II, p. 5
4 Briggs, Vol II, p. 19
5 Quoted in Briggs, Vol. II, p. 23
6 Quoted in The World, 31 May 1876
7 Quoted in Regani, p. 187
8 Quoted in Dalrymple, White Mughals, p. 357
9 Quoted in Chaudhuri, p. 105
10 Tinsley’s Magazine, June 1876
11 Briggs, Vol. I, pp. 279–287
12 Quoted in Zubaida Yazdani, Hyderabad during the Residency of Henry Russell, p. 13
13 Briggs, Vol. II, p. 191
14 Briggs, Vol. II, p. 22
15 John William Kaye, The Life and Correspondence of Charles Lord Metcalfe, p. 10
16 Quoted in Chaudhuri, p. 136
17 Quoted in Regani, pp. 212–213
18 Briggs, Vol. I, p. 102
19 Briggs, Vol. I, p. 103
20 Yazdani, Hyderabad during the Residency of Henry Russell, p. 37
21 Briggs, Vol. II, p. 99
22 Briggs, Vol. II, p. 103
23 Vasant Kumar Bawa, The Last Nizam, p. 17
24 Dalrymple, White Mughals, p. 320
25 Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 5, p. 351
26 Quoted in Regani, p. 222
27 Quoted in Regani, pp. 237–238
28 Quoted in Regani, p. 238
29 Thompson, p. 52
30 Quoted in Mark Bence Jones, Palaces of the Raj, p. 91
31 Kaye, p. 49
32 Quoted in Regani, p. 232
33 Quoted in Regani, p. 230
34 Quoted in Gribble, Vol. II, p. 173
35 Thompson, pp. 15–16
36 Quoted in Chaudhuri, p. 296
37 Briggs, Vol. I, pp. 114–115
38 Quoted in Thompson and Garrett, Rise and Fulfilment of British Rule in India, p. 236
39 Quoted in Regani, p. 247
40 Fraser, p. 236
41 Quoted in M. Fathulla Khan, A History of Administrative Reforms in Hyderabad State, pp. 36–37
42 Quoted in Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 7, p. 101
43 Quoted in Gribble, Vol. II, p. 187
44 Fraser, pp. 260–261
45 Fraser, p. 491
46 Quoted in Regani, p. 247
47 Fraser, p. 267
48 John Keay, India, pp. 433–435
49 Gribble, Vol. II, p. 204
50 Bharati Ray, Hyderabad and British Paramountcy, p. 9
51 Fraser, p. 353
52 Fraser, p. 271
53 Quoted in Regani, p. 287
54 Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 7, pp. 73–74
55 Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 7, p. 81
56 Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 7, p. 183
57 Gribble, Vol. II, pp. 190–191
58 Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 8, p. 363
59 Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 8, p. 363
60 Gribble, Vol. II, pp. 213–214
61 Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 8, p. 364
62 Briggs, Vol. II, p. 48
63 Briggs, Vol. II, p. 49
64 Briggs, Vol. I, pp. 393–403
65 Regani, pp. 292–297
66 Quoted in Regani, p. 299
67 Ray, p. 9
68 Fraser pp. 281–2
69 Madras Spectator, 22 May 1857

Chapter 4 Regulators of the Realm

1 Pictorial Hyderabad, Vol. I, p. 70
2 Pictorial Hyderabad, Vol. I, p. 71
3 Fraser, p. 291
4 Narendra Luther, Hyderabad, p. 172
5 Athenaeum, 18 June 1876
6 Ray, p. 4
7 John Lord, The Maharajas, p. 74
8 Charles Allen and Sharada Dwivedi, Lives of the Indian Princes, p. 84
9 Allen and Dwivedi, p. 84
10 Quoted in Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 3, p. 446
11 Quoted in Zubaida Yazdani, The Seventh Nizam, pp. 10–11
12 Athenaeum, 18 June 1876
13 Quoted in Hyderabad Political Notebook, Vol. I
14 Pioneer, 8 February 1884
15 Bawa, p. 24
16 Madras Times, 8 August 1867
17 The Examiner, 30 October 1875
18 Quoted in Ray, p. 68
19 Daily News, 28 October 1857
20 The Examiner, 30 October 1875
21 Pall Mall Gazette, 27 October 1875
22 Pall Mall Gazette, 27 October 1875
23 Quoted in Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 3, p. 313
24 Athenaeum, 22 June 1876
25 Ray, p. 85
26 Claude Clerk quoted in Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 3, p. 492
27 ‘Meade to Lyall, Secretary Government of India’, 1 September 1880: Simla Records, Political A, August 1881, Nos 105–12, NAI
28 ‘Statement of His Highness’s Studies at the End of the Year 1879 by J. F. Dowding assistant tutor to His Highness the Nizam’, Simla Records, Political A, August 1881, Nos 105–12, NAI
29 Harriett Lynton and Mohini Rajan, The Days of the Beloved, p. 33
30 ‘Lyall to Resident’, 16 December 1880, Simla Records, Political A, August 1881, Nos 105–12, NAI
31 ‘Lyall to Resident’, 16 December 1880, Simla Records, Political A, August 1881, Nos 105–12, NAI
32 Pioneer, 8 February 1884
33 Pioneer, 8 February 1884
34 Pictorial Hyderabad, Vol. I, p. 78
35 Lynton and Rajan, p. 49
36 Quoted in Usha Bala Krishnan, Jewels of the Nizams, p. 75
37 Bala Krishnan, p. 74
38 J. H. Furneaux, Glimpses of India, p. 386
39 D. F. Karaka, Fabulous Mogul, p. 88
40 Lynton and Rajan, pp. 67–70
41 Karaka, pp. 36–37
42 Pioneer, quoted in Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 8, p. 754
43 Lynton and Rajan, pp. 1–18
44 Lord, p. 76
45 Quoted in Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 8, p. 71
46 Hyderabad Affairs 1900, confidential memorandum, 6 August 1990, NAI
47 Hyderabad Affairs 1900, NAI
48 Hyderabad Affairs 1900, NAI
49 Hyderabad Affairs 1900, NAI
50 Quoted in Keay, p. 462
51 Quoted in Lawrence, p. 333
52 Quoted in Stephen Ashton, British Policy towards the Indian States, p. 83
53 Quoted in Bawa, p. 28
54 Lord, p. 78
55 Ray, p. 131
56 See Ian Austin, City of Legends, p. 160
57 ‘Internal A Proceedings’, Government of India, Foreign Department, September 1911, NAI
58 Quoted in Bawa, p. 64

Chapter 5 A Very Eastern Pantomime

1 Elizabeth Cooper, The Harim and the Purdah, pp. 154–155
2 Karaka, p. 50
3 Lynton and Rajan, p. 248
4 ‘Telegram from Resident at Hyderabad dated 30th August (1911) to Sir A. H. McMahon, Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department’, Simla, NAI
5 ‘Pinhey to Secretary Government of India for Foreign Department, Simla’, 4 September (1911), NAI
6 ‘Pinhey to Secretary Government of India for Foreign Department, Simla’, 4 September (1911), NAI
7 ‘Pinhey to Secretary Government of India for Foreign Department, Simla’, 4 September (1911), NAI
8 ‘Pinhey to Secretary Government of India for Foreign Department, Simla’, 1 September (1911), NAI
9 Yazdani, The Seventh Nizam, p. 53
10 ‘Government of India, Foreign Department Internal A Proceedings’, September 1911, Nos 50–67, NAI
11 ‘Government of India, Foreign Department, Internal A Proceedings’, September 1911, Nos 50–67, NAI
12 Quoted in Yazdani, The Seventh Nizam, p. 45
13 Rajendra Prasad, The Asaf Jahs of Hyderabad, p. 154
14 Karaka, p. 51
15 Karaka, p. 52
16 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
17 The New York Times, 8 August 1926
18 Habeeb Jung, personal interview
19 Prasad, pp. 157–158
20 Quoted in Yazdani, The Seventh Nizam, pp. 55–57
21 Quoted in Margrit Pernau, The Passing of Patrimonialism, p. 90
22 Karaka, p. 52
23 Hyderabad Political Notebook, Vol. I, p. 196
24 Nihal Singh, The Nizam and the British Empire, p. 4
25 Quoted in Pernau, p. 98
26 Yazdani, The Seventh Nizam, p. 105
27 Rosita Forbes, India of the Princes, p. 237
28 Ruler to Rajpramukh, p. 28
29 Quoted in Pernau, p. 115
30 ‘Hyderabad Affairs’, file no. 13, Political Secret (1925–26), p. 22, OIOC
31 Ruler to Rajpramukh, p. 30
32 Anne Morrow, Highness, p. 173
33 Ruler to Rajpramukh, p. 23
34 Prasad, p. 171
35 Morrow, pp. 176–177
36 Conrad Corfield, The Princely India I Knew, p. 54
37 Ian Copeland: The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, pp. 53–54
38 Ashton, p. 111
39 Quoted in K. L. Gauba, Hyderabad or India, p. 68
40 Allen and Dwivedi, p. 19
41 ‘Hyderabad general, November 1947–March 1948’, OIOC
42 Hyderabad Political Notebook, p. 21
43 ‘Hyderabad Affairs’, file no. 13, Political Secret (1925–26), OIOC
44 Quoted in Pernau, p. 150
45 ‘Hyderabad Affairs’, file no. 13, Political Secret (1925–26), OIOC
46 Quoted in Lord, p. 80
47 Quoted in Ashton, p. 83
48 Hyderabad Political Notebook, Vol. II, p. 32
49 ‘Hyderabad Affairs’, file no. 13, Political Secret (1925–26), OIOC
50 ‘Barton letter to the Earl of Birkenhead, His Majesty’s Secretary of State for India’, Simla, 26 May 1926, OIOC
51 Quoted in Pernau, p. 155
52 Quoted in Pernau, p. 156
53 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
54 Quoted in Menon, The Story of the Integration of the Indian States, pp. 371–372

Chapter 6 Shahs, Sultans, Kings and Caliphs

1 The New York Times, 26 April 1925
2 Quoted in Stephen Kinzer, Crescent and Star, p. 42
3 Quoted in David Fromkin, A Peace to End all Peace, p. 431
4 Quoted in The Daily Telegraph, 1 August 2005
5 ‘The Caliphate Question’, file no. 1135/1924 Pt 2, OIOC
6 ‘The Caliphate Question’, file no. 1135/1924 Pt 2, OIOC
7 ‘Lothian to Griffin’, 20 November 1944, file no. 9 (1)–p(s)/44, OIOC
8 The New York Times, 26 April 1925
9 Quoted in Philip Mansel, Constantinople, p. 413
10 Kumudini Ramdev Rao, personal interview
11 Habeeb Jung, personal interview
12 ‘Affairs of Sahibzada Azam Jah, Heir-Apparent, Hyderabad’, Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, file no. 591–P/1935, OIOC
13 ‘Question of the Education of the Sons of H. E. H. the Nizam of Hyderabad’, file no. 621–Internal secret 1922, OIOC
14 ‘Question of the Education of the Sons of H. E. H. the Nizam of Hyderabad’, file no. 621–Internal secret 1922, OIOC
15 ‘Hyderabad affairs’, file no. 13, political secret, p. 5, OIOC
16 ‘Hyderabad affairs’, file no. 13, political secret, p. 5, OIOC
17 Quoted in Bawa, p. 109
18 ‘Question of the Education of the Sons of H. E. H. the Nizam of Hyderabad’, file no. 621–Internal secret 1922, OIOC
19 Habeeb Jung, personal interview
20 ‘Report on the Sons of His Exalted Highness, The Nizam of Hyderabad and Their Turkish Wives’, file no. 202–P (Secret)/32, OIOC.
21 ‘H. A. F. Metcalfe, Draft Confidential Cable, 28 August 1931, OIOC
22 Quoted in Bawa, p. 124
23 ‘T. H. Keyes, Resident of Hyderabad’, 20 August 1930, secret cable, OIOC
24 Lucien Benichou, Autocracy to Integration, p. 47
25 Quoted in Benichou, p. 47
26 Quoted in Benichou, p. 48
27 Quoted in Ashton, p. 154
28 ‘T. H. Keyes, Resident of Hyderabad’, 20 August 1930, secret cable, OIOC
29 ‘Report on the Sons of His Exalted Highness, The Nizam of Hyderabad and Their Turkish Wives’, file no. 202-P (Secret)/32, OIOC
30 Corfield, pp. 57–59
31 ‘T. H. Keyes, Resident of Hyderabad’, 20 August 1930, secret cable, OIOC
32 ‘H. A. F. Metcalfe, Draft Confidential Cable’, 28 August 1931, OIOC
33 ‘H. A. F. Metcalfe, Draft Confidential Cable’, 28 August 1931, OIOC
34 ‘H. A. F. Metcalfe, Draft Confidential Cable’, 28 August 1931, OIOC
35 ‘Extract from the Report on the Internal Situation of the Hyderabad State for the Fortnight Ending 30 November 1931’, OIOC
36 The New York Times, 10 November 1931
37 ‘Very Confidential Demi-official Letter from T. H. Keyes 4 November 1931, to Sir Charles Watson, Political Secretary to the Government of India’, OIOC
38 ‘Telegram no 711–R, 18 October 1931, from the Resident, Hyderabad to Polindia’, OIOC
39 ‘Telegram no 711–R, 18 October 1931, from the Resident, Hyderabad to Polindia’, OIOC
40 ‘Telegram no 711–R, 18 October 1931, from the Resident, Hyderabad to Polindia’, OIOC
41 ‘Very Confidential Demi-official Letter from T. H. Keyes 4 November 1931, to Sir Charles Watson, Political Secretary to the Government of India’, OIOC
42 ‘Very Confidential Demi-official Letter from T. H. Keyes 4 November 1931, to Sir Charles Watson, Political Secretary to the Government of India’, OIOC
43 The New York Times, 10 November 1931
44 The Washington Post, 13 November 1931
45 L’Eclaireur du Dimanche Illustré, November 1931
46 The Washington Post, 13 November 1931
47 The New York Times, 20 November 1931
48 ‘Farman’, 12 November 1931, OIOC
49 The New York Times, 1 January 1932
50 ‘Report on the Sons of His Exalted Highness, The Nizam of Hyderabad and Their Turkish Wives’, file no. 202–P (Secret)/32, OIOC
51 Quoted in Luther, The Nizam Who Wasn’t, p. 12
52 ‘Report on the Sons of His Exalted Highness, The Nizam of Hyderabad and Their Turkish Wives’, file no. 202–P (Secret)/32, OIOC
53 ‘Affairs of Sahibzadas of Hyderabad’, file no 216–P (Secret), OIOC
54 ‘Report on the Sons of His Exalted Highness, The Nizam of Hyderabad and Their Turkish Wives’, file no. 202–P (Secret)/32, OIOC

Chapter 7 Bounty of God, Blessed by Allah

1 Hyderabad Political Notebook, Vol. II, p. 125
2 Hyderabad Political Notebook, Vol. II, p. 125
3 Lakshmi Devi Raj, personal interview
4 Begum Meherunissa, personal interview
5 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
6 Pictorial Hyderabad, Vol. II, p. 20
7 ‘Affairs of Sahibzada Azam Jah, Heir-Apparent, Hyderabad’, file no. 591–P/1935, Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, OIOC
8 ‘Affairs of Sahibzada Azam Jah, Heir-Apparent, Hyderabad’, file no. 591–P/1935, Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, OIOC
9 ‘Affairs of Sahibzada Azam Jah, Heir-Apparent, Hyderabad’, file no. 591–P/1935, Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, OIOC
10 ‘Affairs of Sahibzada Azam Jah, Heir-Apparent, Hyderabad’, file no. 591–P/1935, Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, OIOC
11 File no. 373–P (secret), 1933, Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, Political, OIOC
12 Laik Ali, Tragedy of Hyderabad, p. 27
13 Habeeb Jung, personal interview
14 Hyderabad Political Notebook, Vol. II, 1919–45, p. 21
15 Time, 22 February 1937
16 The New York Times, 23 December 1935
17 The New York Times, 23 December 1935
18 ‘Hyderabad Affairs’, file no. 125–P(S) 1936, Foreign and Political Department, OIOC
19 Time, 22 February 1937
20 Time, 22 February 1937
21 The New York Times, 23 December 1935
22 Time, 22 February 1937
23 Time, 22 February 1937
24 Luther, Hyderabad, p. 166
25 Luther, Hyderabad, p. 273
26 Pernau, p. 271
27 Ashton, p. 172
28 ‘Education of Sahibzada Mukarram Jah, Grandson of H. E. H. the Nizam’, file no. 13 (5)–P(S)/1943, OIOC
29 ‘Education of Sahibzada Mukarram Jah, Grandson of H. E. H. the Nizam’, file no. 13 (5)–P(S)/1943, OIOC
30 The New York Times, 22 August 1926
31 Karaka, pp. 58–59
32 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
33 ‘Education of Sahibzada Mukarram Jah, Grandson of H. E. H. the Nizam’, file no. 13(5)–P(S)/1943, OIOC
34 ‘Education of Sahibzada Mukarram Jah, Grandson of H. E. H. the Nizam’, file no. 13(5)–P(S)/1943, OIOC
35 Sanjay Srivastava, Constructing Post-Colonial India, p. 44
36 Srivastava, pp. 23–24
37 ‘Letter from Marjorie Ussher Governess to Three Wards of the Nizam’, Papers of Marjorie Ussher, OIOC
38 ‘Education of Sahibzada Mukarram Jah, Grandson of H. E. H. the Nizam’, file no. 13(5)–P(S)/1943, OIOC
39 ‘Education of Sahibzada Mukarram Jah, Grandson of H. E. H. the Nizam’, file no. 13(5)–P(S)/1943, OIOC
40 ‘Education of Sahibzada Mukarram Jah, Grandson of H. E. H. the Nizam’, file no. 13(5)–P(S)/1943, OIOC
41 Sanjay Srivastava, p. 41
42 ‘Education of Sahibzada Mukarram Jah, Grandson of H. E. H. the Nizam’, file no. 13(5)–P, Political Department, OIOC
43 ‘Education of Sahibzada Mukarram Jah, Grandson of H. E. H. the Nizam’, file no. 13(5)–P, Political Department, OIOC
44 ‘Education of Sahibzada Mukarram Jah, Grandson of H. E. H. the Nizam’, file no. 13(5)–P, Political Department, OIOC
45 Srivastava, pp. 20–21
46 ‘Report by the Head Master, Doon School, Dehra Dun in Respect of the Progress Made by Sahibzada Mukarram Jah, the Elder Son of the Prince of Berar’, file no. 82–P(S)/1945, OIOC
47 Habeeb Jung, personal interview
48 ‘Report by the Head Master, Doon School, Dehra Dun in Respect of the Progress Made by Sahibzada Mukarram Jah, the Elder Son of the Prince of Berar’, file no. 82–P(S)/1945, OIOC
49 ‘Education of Sahibzada Mukarram Jah, Elder Grandson of H. E. H. the Nizam’, file no. 181–P(S)/1945, OIOC
50 ‘Education of Sahibzada Mukarram Jah, Elder Grandson of H. E. H. the Nizam’, file no. 181–P(S)/1945, OIOC
51 ‘Education of Sahibzada Mukarram Jah, Elder Grandson of H. E. H. the Nizam’, file no. 181–P(S)/1945, OIOC
52 ‘Education of Sahibzada Mukarram Jah, Elder Grandson of H. E. H. the Nizam’, file no. 181–P(S)/1945, OIOC

Chapter 8 Operation Polo

1 Menon, p. 334
2 K. M. Munshi, The End of an Era, p. 163
3 Munshi, p. 72
4 Quoted in Pernau, p. 306
5 The New York Times, 16 February 1943
6 Philip Mason, A Shaft of Sunlight, p. 200
7 Mason, p. 202
8 Mason, p. 204
9 Mason, p. 205
10 Mason, p. 208
11 Mason, p. 209
12 Mason, p. 209
13 Mason, p. 213
14 Joan Reddy, personal interview
15 Birkenhead, p. 104
16 Birkenhead, p. 111
17 Birkenhead, p. 111
18 Birkenhead, p. 113
19 Birkenhead, p. 114
20. Birkenhead, p. 102
21 Birkenhead, p. 220
22 Birkenhead, p. 232
23 Birkenhead, p. 232
24 Karaka, p. 109
25 Ali, p. 72
26 Birkenhead, p. 101
27 Quoted in Bawa, p. 252
28 Sidney Cotton, Aviator Extraordinary, p. 229
29 Cotton, p. 229
30 ‘Smuggling of Arms Through Goa to Hyderabad State’, file no. 19 (71), 1949 Government of India, Ministry of External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations, X Branch, NAI
31 Quoted in Jeffrey Watson, The Last Plane Out of Berlin, p. 200
32 Omar Khalidi, Memoirs of Sidney Cotton
33 Philip Zeigler, Mountbatten, p. 454
34 Zeigler, p. 454
35 ‘Hyderabad General’, file no, l/p&S/13/1204, November 1947–March 1948, APSA
36 ‘Hyderabad General’, file no. l/p&S/13/1204, November 1947–March 1948, APSA
37 Romesh Tharpar, Storm over Hyderabad
38 Birkenhead, p. 246
39 Quoted in Watson, p. 192
40 Quoted in Menon, p. 160
41 Quoted in Time, 30 August 1948
42 The New York Times, 14 September 1948
43 The Times, 14 September 1948
44 The New York Times, 15 September 1948
45 The New York Times, 18 September 1948
46 Quoted in Khalidi, Memoirs of Sidney Cotton
47 Yazdani, The Seventh Nizam, p. 277
48 William Dalrymple, The Age of Kali, p. 210
49 Mukarram Jah, personal interview

Chapter 9 The Faqir’s Curse

1 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
2 Mason, pp. 224–225
3 Tyerman, A History of Harrow School, p. 465
4 Tyerman, p. 356
5 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
6 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
7 Anita Shah, personal interview
8 Quoted in Bawa, p. 296
9 Ruler to Rajpramukh, p. 45
10 Ruler to Rajpramukh, pp. 44–47
11 Ruler to Rajpramukh, p. 46
12 Karaka, p. 64
13 Karaka, p. 66
14 The New York Times, 8 May 1949
15 Blue Book, Ministry of States, India, D. O. No. F. 2. (1)–H/50
16 Karaka, pp. 129–132
17 Karaka, p. 133
18 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
19 Habeeb Jung, personal interview
20 Luther, The Nizam Who Wasn’t, p. 20
21 ‘Draft note regarding the problems of Prince Azam Jah Trust and Nizam’s Jewellery Trust’, (secret) MV Oak, undated, Ministry of Home Affairs, NAI
22 ‘Affairs of Prince Azam Jah of Hyderabad’, 17/12/56, Pol. III, Ministry of Home Affairs, NAI
23 Luther, The Nizam Who Wasn’t, p. 21
24 Time, 4 June 1954
25 ‘Affairs of Prince Azam Jah of Hyderabad’, 17/12/56, Pol. III, Ministry of Home Affairs, NAI
26 ‘Affairs of Prince Azam Jah of Hyderabad’, 17/12/56, Pol. III, Ministry of Home Affairs, NAI
27 ‘Affairs of Prince Azam Jah of Hyderabad’, 17/12/56, Pol. III, Ministry of Home Affairs, NAI
28 ‘Draft Note Regarding the Problems of Prince Azam Jah Trust and Nizam’s Jewellery Trust’, (secret) M. V. Oak, undated, Ministry of Home Affairs, NAI
29 ‘Affairs of Prince Azam Jah of Hyderabad’, 17/12/56, Pol. III, Ministry of Home Affairs, NAI
30 Luther, The Nizam Who Wasn’t, p. 22
31 Ghulam Hyder Khan, personal interview
32 George Hobday, personal interview
33 George Hobday, personal interview
34 George Hobday, personal interview
35 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
36 John Friedberger, personal interview
37 Quoted in Hugh Thomas, The Story of Sandhurst, pp. 233–234
38 Thomas, p. 234
39 The Times, 19 July 1957
40 Rashid Ali Khan, personal interview
41 Dr S. A. Mannan, personal interview
42 The Times, 25 February 1967
43 Dr Aminuddin Khan, personal interview
44 Mansoor Ali, personal interview
45 Time, 24 March 1952
46 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
47 Esra Jah, personal interview
48 Lalitha Gir, personal interview
49 Begum Meherunissa, personal interview
50 Basith Nawab, personal interview
51 Bilkiz Alladin, personal interview
52 Ayoob Ali Khan, personal interview
53 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
54 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
55 Nandita Sen, personal interview
56 Morrow, p. 179
57 The New York Times, 26 February 1967
58 Tasker collection, OIOC
59 Taya Zinkin, Reporting India, p. 65

Chapter 10 The Palace of the Four Pavilions

1 Interview with the Press Trust of India, ‘Papers of Theodore Tasker’, OIOC
2 The Washington Post, 27 August 1967
3 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
4 The New York Times, 17 August 1967
5 Habeeb Jung, personal interview
6 Quoted in Chaudhuri, p. 105
7 Quoted in Regani, pp. 212–213
8 Sir Richard Temple, ‘Men and Events of my Time in India’, cited in Hyderabad Affairs, Vol. 3, p. 445
9 Karaka, p. 40
10 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
11 Austin, p. 171
12 The Washington Post, 27 August 1967
13 Basith Nawab, personal interview
14 Lok Sabha Debates, 24 May 1967
15 ‘Trustee Arrangements in Respect to Nizam’s Trust on Which the Government of India has a Nominee’, Home Ministry, file no. 1/5/67, NAI
16 The New York Times, 27 February 1968
17 ‘Trustee Arrangements in Respect to Nizam’s Trust on Which the Government of India has a Nominee’, Home Ministry, file no. 1/5/67, NAI
18 ‘Trustee Arrangements in Respect to Nizam’s Trust on Which the Government of India has a Nominee’, Home Ministry, file no. 1/5/67, NAI
19 The New York Times, 17 August 1967
20 Lok Sabha Debates, 5 July 1967
21 Lok Sabha Debates, 26 April 1968
22 Lok Sabha Debates, 24 November 1969
23 Quoted in Morrow, p. 235
24 Allen and Dwivedi, p. 335
25 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
26 Basith Nawab, personal interview
27 Ayoob Ali Khan, personal interview
28 Esra Jah, personal interview
29 Chandrakant Gir, personal interview
30 Quoted in Siddiqua Khan, History of Purani Haveli, pp. 58–61
31 The New York Times, 17 August 1967

Chapter 11 The Darbar in the Desert

1 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
2 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
3 George Hobday, personal interview
4 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
5 Philip Playford, Carpet of Silver, p. 70
6 Ted McClintock, personal interview
7 The West Australian, 3 February 1973
8 Gary White, personal interview
9 Peter Falconer, personal interview
10 Freehill Hollingdale & Page, letter dated 26 February 1991
11 Scheherazade Javeri, personal interview
12 The Western Mail Magazine, 25 February 1984
13 Ted McClintock, personal interview
14 Cess Blood, personal interview
15 The West Australian, 24 February 1984
16 Morrow, p. 184
17 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
18 The West Australian, 3 February 1973
19 Callum Roscic, personal interview
20 Gary White, personal interview
21 Gary White, personal interview
22 Ted McClintock, personal interview
23 David Nuttal, personal interview
24 Gary White, personal interview
25 Gary White, personal interview
26 Ted McClintock, personal interview
27 Murchison House Station Manager’s Diary, 1982
28 Paul Palazzo, personal interview
29 Ron Allen, personal interview
30 Playford, p. 155
31 Playford, p. 169
32 Playford, pp. 171–173
33 The West Australian, 24 February 1984
34 David Weinman, personal interview
35 David Weinman, personal interview
36 David Weinman, personal interview
37 David Michael, personal interview
38 The West Australian, 27 January 1990
39 Gary White, personal interview
40 The West Australian, 3 February 1980
41 Habeeb Jung, personal interview
42 Rashid Ali Khan, personal interview
43 The West Australian, 24 February 1984

Chapter 12 ‘Life’s Not Supposed to be Easy’

1 The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 May 1991
2 Express, 20 February 1985
3 Woman’s Day, 19 May 1986
4 The Western Mail magazine, 25 February 1984
5 Morrow, p. 185
6 Sunday Times (Perth), 4 April 1993
7 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
8 Woman’s Day, 19 May 1986
9 The West Australian, 21 February 1995
10 Chandrakant Gir, personal interview
11 Begum Meherunissa, personal interview
12 Lakshmi Devi Raj, personal interview
13 Follow Me, January 1990
14 Express, 20 February 1985
15 Express, 20 February 1985
16 Woman’s Day, 19 May 1986
17 Quoted in Morrow, p. 187
18 Follow Me, January 1990
19 Woman’s Day, 19 May 1986
20 Follow Me, January 1990
21 The West Australian, 4 April 1993
22 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
23 Follow Me, January 1990
24 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
25 Follow Me, January 1990
26 The West Australian, 31 May 1989
27 Courier-Mail, 1 June 1989
28 Follow Me, January 1990
29 Ghulam Hyder Khan, personal interview
30 Express, 13 September 1989
31 ‘Report to H. E. H. Prince Jah re: M. Y. Kalbarrie Insurance’, 20 October 1986
32 Daily News, 20 July 1989
33 The Sunday Times (London), 7 November 1987
34 India Today, 15 December 1987
35 ‘First Information Report, Delhi Special Police Establishment’, 13 November 1987
36 Sunday Times (Perth), 4 February 1990
37 Sunday Times (Perth), 4 February 1990
38 The West Australian, 3 February, 1990
39 India Today, 31 August 1990
40 Gade Venkat Reddy, personal interview
41 Commonwealth Relations Office, October 2, 1948, file no. 3481, secret, APSA
42 The West Australian, 3 February 1990

Chapter 13 Like Discs of the Setting Sun

1 Ghanshyam Das, personal interview
2 Ghanshyam Das, personal interview
3 Jayant Chowlera, personal interview
4 Jayant Chowlera, personal interview
5 Louis Verner, ‘City of Pearls’, Saudi Aramco World, Sept/Oct 1998, Vol. 49, No. 5
6 Quoted in Bala Krishnan, p. 40
7 Quoted in Deccan Times, 4 September 1884
8 Tavernier, Vol. II, pp. 48–49
9 Tavernier, Vol. II, pp. 59–61
10 Trust Deed (Jewellery Trust), 29 March 1951
11 Trust Deed (Jewellery Trust), 29 March 1951
12 Omar Khalidi, Romance of the Golconda Diamonds, p. 115
13 Quoted in Khalidi, Romance, p. 115
14 The New York Times, 10 September 1979
15 Jayant Chowlera, personal interview
16 India Today, 15 February 1995
17 Jayant Chowlera, personal interview
18 Trust Deed (Jewellery Trust), 29 March 1951

Chapter 14 Losing It

1 Sadruddin Javeri, personal interview 1988
2 Sadruddin Javeri, personal interview 1988
3 David Michael, personal interview
4 Mukurram Jah, personal interview
5 David Michael, personal interview
6 The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 December 1989
7 The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 April 1990
8 The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 November 1990
9 Freehill Hollingdale & Page, letter dated 26 February 1991
10 The West Australian, 27 January 1990
11 Quoted in The West Australian, 30 October 1990
12 Quoted in The West Australian, 30 October 1990
13 ‘Report of Princess B. K. Patiala to H. E. H. The Nizam of Hyderabad’, 1991
14 ‘Majeed Mining, Business Plan for the Operation of the Majeed Mine at Halls Creek’, 20 October 1990
15 Corporations Law, Statement Verifying Report, 18 June 1992
16 ‘Rationalisation of operations on MHS’, undated note
17 Murchison House Pastoral Co. Pty Ltd v Kingsburg Pty Ltd, Cor 51 of 1996, Supreme Court of Western Australia
18 The West Australian, 3 April 1993
19 Sunday Times (Perth), 19 December 1993
20 The West Australian, 15 April 1995
21 Sunday Times (Perth), 19 December 1993
22 Fax, 4 June 1994
23 Fax, 27 October 1994
24 Scheherazade Javeri, personal interview
25 The Deccan Chronicle, 25 February 2001
26 Ayoob Ali Khan, personal interview
27 Scheherazade Javeri, personal interview
28 The Deccan Chronicle, 14 January 1995
29 Sunday Times (Perth), 16 April 1995
30 The Sunday Times (London), 16 April 1995
31 The Telegraph, 6 June 1995
32 David Michael, personal inteview
33 David Michael, personal inteview
34 Ayoob Ali Khan, personal interview
35 Bob Gregson, personal interview
36 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
37 The Deccan Chronicle, 17 November 1995
38 The Deccan Chronicle, 3 December 1995
39 The Deccan Chronicle, 20 December 1995
40 Newstime, 6 February 1996
41 The Pioneer, 6 February 1996
42 Sunday, 18–24 February, 1996
43 Savvy, July 1996
44 Murchison House Pastoral Co Pty Ltd v Kingsburg Pty Ltd, Cor 51 of 1996, Supreme Court of Western Australia
45 Colliers Jardine, pamphlet
46 The West Australian, 16 April 1997
47 Blood, personal interview
48 The West Australian, 16 April 1997
49 Louise Tilden, personal interview
50 Tilden, personal interview
51 David Michael, personal inteview
52 The Western Mail, 25 February 1984

Epilogue

1 Mujeeb Yar Jung, personal interview
2 Mujeeb Yar Jung, personal interview, 1998
3 Anonymous, personal interview, 1998
4 The Hindu, 21 October 2005
5 Anonymous, personal interview
6 Ayoob Ali Khan, personal interview
7 Rajendra Prasad, personal interview
8 Mukarram Jah, personal interview
9 Mukarram Jah, personal interview