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Last Nizam (9781742626109)

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by Zubrzycki, John


  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, NAIr />
  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, Hyderaba
d 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

 

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