25.
Theosophy Magazine, June, 1913.
CHAPTER NINE: THE LION’S JAWS
1.
The Englishman, December 14, 1891.
2.
The Pall Mall Gazette, September 14, 1891.
3.
K. Krishna Swamy Mudiraj, Pictorial Hyderabad, 21.
4.
Bala Krishnan, Jewels of the Nizams, 46.
5.
Harriet Ronken Lynton, and Mohini Rajan, The Days of the Beloved, 49.
6.
David Gilmour, The Ruling Caste: mperial Lives in the Victorian Raj, 218.
7.
Bakhshish Singh Nijjar, History of the United Panjab, vol. 1, 155.
8.
NAI, Imperial Diamond Case, A.M. Jacob versus His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, KW Secret-1, 60–117.
9.
The Pall Mall Gazette, September 14, 1891.
10.
Cited in Bala Krishnan, Jewels of the Nizams, 47.
11.
The Times of India, October 14, 1891.
12.
Bombay Gazette, October 10, 1891.
13.
The Englishman, December 22, 1891.
14.
Dosoo Framjee Karaka, Fabulous Mogul: Nizam VII of Hyderabad, 42.
15.
The Englishman, December 15, 1891.
16.
The Englishman, December 15, 1891.
17.
The Englishman, December 14, 1891.
18.
Ibid.
19.
The Pioneer, December 11, 1891.
20.
Ibid.
21.
The Times of India, September 18, 1891.
22.
The Englishman, December 9, 1891.
23.
Ibid.
24.
Ibid.
25.
Ibid.
26.
The Pioneer, December 11, 1891.
27.
Ibid.
28.
The Englishman, December 11, 1891.
29.
The Times of India, December 14, 1891.
30.
The Chicago Daily Tribune, November 15, 1891.
31.
Edwin William Streeter, The Great Diamonds of the World. Their History and Romance.
32.
The Spectator, October 17, 1891.
33.
The Chicago Daily Tribune, November 22, 1891.
34.
The Times of India, December 14, 1891.
35.
Pat Lovett, Journalism in India, 37.
36.
The Times of India, December 14, 1891.
37.
The Times of India, December 15, 1891.
38.
The Englishman, December 12, 1891.
39.
Ibid.
40.
Ibid.
CHAPTER 10: SPY VS SPY
1.
NAI, Imperial Diamond Case, A.M. Jacob versus His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, KW Secret-1, 60–117.
2.
India Office Records: Government of India to the Secretary of State, Foreign, I no. 19, Simla, 22nd May, 1873.
3.
Richard Popplewell, Intelligence and Imperial Defence: British Intelligence and the Defence of the Indian Empire, 1904–1924, 14.
4.
Ibid., 22.
5.
Ibid., 21.
6.
Ibid., 37.
7.
Hyderabad Affairs, vol. 8, 279.
8.
NAI, Imperial Diamond Case, A.M. Jacob versus His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, KW Secret-1, 60–117.
9.
Ibid.
10.
Popplewell, 24.
11.
NAI, Imperial Diamond Case, A.M. Jacob versus His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, KW Secret-1, 60–117.
12.
NAI, Imperial Diamond Case, A.M. Jacob versus His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, KW Secret-1, 60–117.
13.
Ibid.
14.
Ibid.
15.
Hyderabad in 1890 and 1891, 165.
16.
Ibid.
17.
Hyderabad in 1890 and 1891: Comprising All the Letters on Hyderabad Affairs Written to the Madras Hindu by its Hyderabad Correspondent During 1890 and 1891, 166–7.
18.
NAI, Imperial Diamond Case, A.M. Jacob versus His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, KW Secret-1, 60–117.
19.
Ibid.
20.
Ibid.
21.
Ibid., 166.
22.
Ibid., 166.
23.
December 9, 1891.
CHAPTER 11: A PIECE OF SPARKLING VANITY
1.
Quoted in Hyderabad Affairs, vol. 3, 492.
2.
The Englishman, December 9, 1891.
3.
The Times of India, December 14, 1891.
4.
The Bengalee, December 14, 1891.
5.
John Inverarity quoted in The Englishman, December 18, 1891.
6.
The Spectator, October 17, 1891.
7.
The Englishman, December 9, 1891.
8.
The Times of India, September 19, 1891.
9.
The Times of India, December 14, 1891.
10.
Ibid.
11.
Ibid.
12.
The Times of India, September 21, 1891.
13.
The Times of India, December 21, 1891.
14.
The Times of India, September 22, 1891.
15.
The Times of India, December 21, 1891.
16.
NAI, Imperial Diamond Case, A.M. Jacob versus His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, KW Secret-1, 60–117.
17.
Ibid.
18.
Ibid.
19.
Ibid.
20.
Ibid.
21.
The Times of India, December 12, 1891.
22.
The Englishman, December 18, 1891.
23.
Ibid.
24.
NAI, Imperial Diamond Case, A.M. Jacob versus His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, KW Secret-1, 60–117.
25.
Ibid.
26.
Ibid.
27.
Ibid.
28.
Ibid.
29.
Ibid.
30.
Ibid.
31.
Ibid.
32.
Ibid.
33.
Ibid.
34.
Ibid.
35.
Ibid.
CHAPTER 12: THE PRICE OF JUSTICE
1.
The Chicago Daily Tribune, October 2, 1891.
2.
The Times, September 7, 1891.
3.
The Pall Mall Gazette, September 14, 1891.
4.
The Times of India, September 14, 1891.
5.
The Englishman, September 10, 1891.
6.
NAI, Imperial Diamond Case, A.M. Jacob versus His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, KW Secret-1, 60–117.
7.
Ibid.
8.
Ibid.
9.
Cited in The Bengalee, September 12, 1891.
10.
Capital, September 8, 1891.
11.
Phirozeshah Bejanji Vachha, Famous Judges, Lawyers and Cases of Bombay: A Judicial History of Bombay during the British Period, 139.
12.
Administration Report of the Jails of Bengal for 1879, Secretariat Pr
ess, Calcutta, 1880, 39–41.
13.
The Times of India, September 14, 1891.
14.
The Times of India, September 18, 1891.
15.
The Times of India, September 21, 1891.
16.
The Times of India, September 22, 1891.
17.
NAI, Imperial Diamond Case, A.M. Jacob versus His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, KW Secret-1, 60–117.
18.
Ibid.
19.
Ibid.
20.
Ibid.
21.
Hyderabad in 1890 and 1891, 154.
22.
Quoted in The Statesman, November 27, 1891.
23.
NAI, Imperial Diamond Case, A.M. Jacob versus His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, KW Secret-1, 60–117.
24.
Ibid.
25.
Bombay Gazette, October 10, 1891.
26.
Bombay Gazette, October 10, 1891.
27.
NAI, Imperial Diamond Case, A.M. Jacob versus His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, KW Secret-1 60–117.
28.
Ibid.
29.
Ibid.
30.
Ibid.
31.
Hyderabad in 1890 and 1891, 158.
32.
NAI, Imperial Diamond Case, A.M. Jacob versus His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, KW Secret-1, 60–117.
33.
Bombay Gazette, October 14, 1891.
34.
October 26, 1891.
35.
NAI, Imperial Diamond Case, A.M. Jacob versus His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, KW Secret-1, 60–117.
36.
Ibid.
37.
Ibid.
38.
Ibid.
CHAPTER 13: THE IMPERIAL DIAMOND CASE
1.
Thacker’s Guide to Calcutta, 42.
2.
The Pioneer, December 9, 1891.
3.
Ibid.
4.
Ibid.
5.
Hyderabad in 1890 and 1891, 165.
6.
The Pioneer, December 9, 1891.
7.
The Pioneer, December 10, 1891.
8.
The Indian Law Reports, vol. XIX, January to December 1892, 116–17.
9.
The Civil & Military Gazette, December 12, 1891.
10.
The Times of India, December 21, 1891.
11.
The Pioneer, December 19, 1891.
12.
The Englishman, December 18, 1891.
13.
The Pioneer, December 22, 1891.
14.
Ibid.
15.
The Pioneer, December 24, 1891.
16.
Ibid.
17.
The Englishman, December 22, 1891.
18.
The Statesman, December 29, 1891.
19.
The Englishman, December 24, 1891.
20.
Civil & Military Gazette, December 24, 1891.
21.
The Times, December 23, 1891.
22.
The Los Angeles Times, February 24, 1892.
23.
NAI, Permission Given to Mr A.M. Jacob, Jeweller, under the Civil Procedure Code to Institute a Cross Suit against the Nizam of Hyderabad, Foreign Department Proceedings, Secret-I, April 1892, 18–26.
24.
NAI, Settlement of the dispute between His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad and Mr A.M. Jacob, Jeweller, regarding the Imperial Diamond, KW Secret-I, May 1892, 4–5.
25.
IOR, Lothian to L.C.L. Griffith, Secretary to the Crown Representative, New Delhi, 16 October, 1944.
26.
For a description of the subsequent history of the Imperial diamond and Mukarram Jah’s life see John Zubrzycki, The Last Nizam, An Indian Prince in the Australian Outback.
CHAPTER 14: THE GHOST OF THE CHOWMAHALLA PALACE
1.
Richard Griffith, Eileen Bowser and Arthur Mayer, The Movies, 142.
2.
The Irish Times, February 9, 1932.
3.
he Times of India, April 2, 1932.
4.
Heath, ‘“Mr Isaacs” and his Seances’, 21.
5.
Nathaniel Newnham-Davis, Jadoo, An Anglo-Indian Love Story, 115.
6.
Flora Annie Steel, Voices in the Night, 19.
7.
‘Madame Blavatsky’s Teacups’, in Barry Perowne, Raffles of the MCC, Exploits of a Famous Gentleman Crook in the Days of the British Empire, 112–39.
8.
NAI, Permission Given to Mr A.M. Jacob, Jeweller, under the Civil Procedure Code to Institute a Cross Suit against the Nizam of Hyderabad, Foreign Department Proceedings, Secret-I, April 1892, 18–26.
9.
NAI, Question of the Appointment of an Honorary Turkish Consul at Hyderabad, KW, Secret-I September 1893, 16–18.
10.
NAI, Settlement of the dispute between His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad and Mr A.M. Jacob, Jeweller, regarding the Imperial Diamond, KW Secret-I, May 1892, 4–5.
11.
Proposed Administrative Reforms in Hyderabad State, Foreign Department Secret I March 1894, 1–18.
12.
Omar Khalidi, ‘The Amazing Abid of Hyderabad and Devon,’ Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries, vol. 38, no. 6, Autumn, 1999, 163.
13.
NAI, Question of the Appointment of an Honorary Turkish Consul at Hyderabad, KW, Secret-I September 1893, 16–18.
14.
Ibid.
15.
Ibid.
16.
The biographical information about Sabunji’s early life is taken from Luigi Bari Saboungi, Jehan Aftab: Abdul Hamid’s Last Love, 13–20.
17.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt: Being a Personal Narrative of Events, 124.
18.
Ibid., 66.
19.
Ram Lakhan Shukla, Britain, India, and the Turkish Empire, 1853–1882, 205.
20.
NAI, Question of the Appointment of an Honorary Turkish Consul at Hyderabad, KW, Secret-I September 1893, 16–18.
21.
Cited in Martin Kramer, Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival: The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East, 60.
22.
Ibid., 60.
23.
The Morning Post, September 9, 1993.
24.
NAI Permission Given to Mr A.M. Jacob to Visit Hyderabad, Foreign Department, Internal B, August 1899, 247–48.
25.
The Friend of India & The Statesman, August 4, 1896.
26.
Los Angeles Times, June 29, 1897.
27.
Otago Daily Times, September 12, 1896.
28.
Borderland, vol. III, July 1896, 363.
29.
Ibid., 363.
30.
‘A Professor of Hindoo Magic. Or, the wonders of Professor Jhingan and Mr Jacob of Simla,’ Borderland, vol I, 1897, 181–2.
31.
The Occult Review, Vol. 26, October, 1917, 233.
32.
Cited in Reginald Span, Chambers’s Journal, February, 1916.
33.
The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, vol. 31, January, 1937, 26.
34.
Ibid., 27–8.
35.
Fodor, Nandor, The Haunted MInd, A Psychoanalyst looks at the Supernatural, 235.
36.
The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, vol. 31, 1937, 26.
37.
The Pall Mall Gazette, May 26, 1897.
38.
NAI Permission Given to Mr A.M.
Jacob to Visit Hyderabad, Foreign Department, Internal B, August 1899, 247–48.
39.
Ibid.
40.
Ibid.
41.
NAI, Grant of a passport to Mr Alexander Jacob of Simla, Foreign Department Proceedings, General Part B, May 1899, 240–1.
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