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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

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