42.
Cited in The Star, December 9, 1896.
43.
William Stone, The Squire of Piccadilly, pp 38-39
44.
Delight Sweetser Prentiss, One Way Round the World, 217.
45.
Isabel Anderson, Odd Corners, 24.
46.
NAI, Question as to whether Mr A.M. Jacob has permission to visit Hyderabad, Foreign Department Proceedings, Internal B, August, 1900, no 127, 1–5.
47.
Ibid.
48.
IOR, Hyderabad Abortion Case, Empress vs Templeton, File Con B I B, 16–59.
49.
Ibid.
50.
IOR, Expulsion of Messrs A.N. Templeton and E. Newton from the Hyderabad State, File S I Nov 1904, 27–31.
CHAPTER 15: SEARCHING FOR LURGAN SAHIB’S SHOP
1.
Kipling, Kim, 195.
2.
Ibid., 197.
3.
See Peter Hopkirk, Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling’s Great Game, 150–99.
4.
M.M. Kaye, The Sun in the Morning, 76.
5.
Kipling, Kim, 200.
6.
Harrop, Thacker’s New Guide to Simla, 41.
7.
Onkar Chand Sud, The Simla Story: The Glitter and the Afterglow of the Raj: A Sketch-Book, 21.
8.
Buck, Simla Past and Present, 176.
9.
Ibid., 178.
10.
Bullock, The Irish Monthly, 450.
11.
Kipling Journal, July 192, 22–3.
12.
India Union Tidings, vol 12, no 16, September 1, 1917, 9.
13.
Heath, ‘“Mr Isaacs” and his Seances’, 24.
14.
‘A Professor of Hindoo Magic’, Borderland, June 1897, 182.
15.
Heath, ‘The Story of Mr Isaacs’s Life’, 193.
16.
The Voice of Mystic India, 137.
17.
Russell, ‘Mr Isaacs’ of Simla, 164–5.
18.
Ibid., 165–6.
19.
Lillian Luker Ashby, My India: Recollections of Fifty Years, 118–19.
CHAPTER 16: THE DEVIL WORSHIPPERS
1.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911, 919–20.
2.
The Times of India, July 27, 1912, 12.
3.
NAI, Debts of the Maharaj Rana of Dholepore, Foreign Internal B, November 1900, 142–69.
4.
Ibid.
5.
Ibid
6.
Ibid.
7.
The Times of India, September 10, 1892.
8.
Ibid.
9.
BelaI Kelenyi, ‘Two Trunks from London. Hungarian Aspects of the “Discovery” of Nepalese Art,’ Ars Decorativa 24, 125.
10.
The Times of India, June 6, 1903.
11.
The Times of India, November 11, 1892.
12.
The Times, July 16, 1912, 13.
13.
The Illustrated London News, August 24, 1912.
14.
Tibbits, The Voice of the Orient, 159.
15.
Ibid., 163
16.
The Times, June xxx
17.
Cited in Nandor Fodor, The Haunted MInd: A Psychoanalyst Looks at the Supernatural, 239.
18.
Lady Maud Warrender, My First Sixty Years, 99.
19.
Times of India, December 23, 1910.
20.
Heath, ‘Mr Isaacs of Simla,’ 24.
21.
Heath, ‘The Story of Mr Isaacs’ Life, 190.
22.
Heath, ‘One of the Lucky Ones’, in Ian Fraser, (ed), Conquest of Disability: Inspiring Accounts of Courage, Fortitude and Adaptability in Conquering Grave Physical Handicaps, 193.
23.
Heath, ‘Mr Isaacs of Simla,’ 24.
24.
NAI, Foreign Department Proceedings, Secret-I, February 1912, 79–80.
25.
Ibid.
26.
Ibid.
27.
Ibid.
CHAPTER 17: BROKEN CHINA
1.
The quotes attributed to Jacob and the descriptions of him and his flat come from Frankau, The Woman of the Horizon: A Romance of Nineteen-Thirteen, 31–42.
2.
Dracott, The Voice of Mystic India, 134–42.
3.
The Times, January 17, 1921.
4.
The Statesman, January 12, 1921.
5.
The New York Times, February 20, 1921.
6.
Bombay Gazette, January 13. 1891.
EPILOGUE
1.
David Morphet, ‘A Kipling Discovery,’ The Guardian, December 31, 2005.
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