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14. Extract from a letter dated 1 February 1948 from Nayantara Sahgal to Vijayalakshmi and Chandralekha Pandit and quoted in Out of Line—A Literary and Political Biography of Nayantara Sahgal by Ritu Menon, Fourth Estate, NOIDA, 2018, pages 263-264.
15. Krishnalal Shridharani in Amrita Bazar Patrika, Calcutta, 10 December 1947, quoted in J.N. Chakrabartti, 1960.
28. An Ambassador in Cairo (1948)
1. Indian Opinion, New Delhi, 9 April 1948.
2. Times of India, 6 December 1946, Through ProQuest.
3. The New York Times, 15 September 1948. Through ProQuest.
4. Times of India, 7 October 1948. Through ProQuest.
5. Nayantara Sahgal in a conversation with the author in Dehradun on 30 August 2019, and Out of Line—A Literary and Political Biography of Nayantara Sahgal by Ritu Menon. Fourth Estate, NOIDA, 2018, page 59.
6. Times of India, 5 and 7 November 1948. Through ProQuest.
7. My Days with Nehru by M.O. Mathai. Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 1979, page 55.
8. Times of India, 28, 29, 30 January and 5 February 1949. Through ProQuest.
9. J.N. Chakrabartti, 1960, page 296.
10. Letter from Mumtaz Kitchlew in March 1949. Addressee unknown. SAADA Collections.
11. Letter from Sarojini Naidu to Leilamani Naidu dated 28 February 1949. Makarand Paranajpe, 1996, page 319.
12. List of declassified files of the Ministry of External Affairs from 1903–1972, Arab World & Turkey, Progs., Nos. 7(35)-AWT, 1949 (Secret). Compiled by IDSA Library.
13. Asaf Ali in a letter of August 1951 quoted in M. Asaf Ali’s Memoirs—The Emergence of Modern India by G.N.S. Raghavan. Ajanta Publications, Delhi, 1994, page 424.
14. George Joseph—The Life and Times of a Kerala Christian Nationalist by George G. Joseph. Orient Blackswan, 2003, Kindle Edition, Chapter 7.
15. Ritu Menon (biographer of Nayantara Sahgal) in an email dated 31 August 2019 and subsequent conversation with the author.
16. Letter dated 18 September 1957 from Abnashi Ram to Anup Singh. SAADA Collections.
17. Letter dated 18 March 1976 from Abnashi Ram to Ambassador. SAADA Collections.
18. Email dated 23 February 2020 from Syud Iqbal Ahmed to the author.
19. Letter dated March 1949 from Mumtaz Kitchlew, SAADA Collections.
20. Letter dated 1 Nov 1949 from Mumtaz Kitchlew to Abnashi Ram, SAADA Collections.
21. Syud Iqbal Ahmed’s email to the author on 26 December 2018. Edited by the author for clarity.
22. Declassified files of the Ministry of External Affairs from 1903-72. Settlement of the late Dr Syud Hossain’s account with the Govt of India. Transportation of his personal effects from Egypt to India—Progs., Nos 7(73)-AWT, 1949 (Secret). Compiled by IDSA Library.
29. Syud Hossain and Minute Rice
1. Letter dated 14 May 1953 from Taraknath Das to Godha Ram Channan. SAADA Collections.
2. The New York Times, 19 June 1964. Through ProQuest.
3. https://maddy06.blogspot.com/2013/03/an-afghan-two-indian-poets-and-german.html.
4. Annual of Urdu Studies, Vol. 4, 1984, page 99.
5. Letter from Mumtaz Kitchlew to Abnashi Ram, 12 November 1964, SAADA Collections.
6. Dr. Syud Hossain by J.N. Chakrabartti, 1960, page iv.
30. Syud Hossain’s Papers
1. Email dated 7 March 2018 from Dr Ismat Mehdi forwarded to the author.
2. Sarojini Naidu—Selected Letters—1890s to 1940s. Edited by Makarand Paranjape. Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1996.
3. Sarojini Naidu—Selected Letters—1890s to 1940s. Edited by Makarand Paranjape. Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1996, pages xxii-xxiii.
4. Letters from Sarojini Naidu, and Eliza Haigh in Syud Hossain’s Papers, Second Instalment, NMML, New Delhi. For Eliza Haigh’s letters, see Chapter IV.
5. The reference is to Sarojini’s remark about Jinnah and Mohammad Ali.
31. The Curtain Falls
1. The Guardian, London, 18 October 1948.
2. Jinnah of Pakistan by Stanley Wolpert. Oxford University Press, 1984, Preface.
3. Asaf Ali in a letter of 9 March 1948 quoted in M. Asaf Ali’s Memoirs—The Emergence of Modern India by G.N.S. Raghavan. Ajanta Publications, Delhi, 1994, page 423.
4. Shaistha Ikramullah, quoted in M. Asaf Ali’s Memoirs—The Emergence of Modern India by G.N.S. Raghavan. Ajanta Publications, Delhi, 1994, pages 208-209.
5. Article dated 11 August 1950 by Taraknath Das summarizing his speech of 15 August 1947. SAADA Collections.
6. Tapan K. Mukherjee, 1998, page 212.
7. The Seattle Daily Times, 1 May 1953.
8. Tapan K. Mukherjee, 1998, pages 214-219, 225.
9. Times of India, 2 July 1947. Through ProQuest.
10. Rajyasabha.nic.in.
11. Harold A. Gould, 2006. Notes on pages 325-326.
12. Times of India, 29 January 1969. Through ProQuest.
13. Letter dated 30 March 1969 from Mumtaz Kitchlew to Abnashi Ram, SAADA Collections.
14. Times of India, 24 July 1960. Through ProQuest.
15. The New York Times, 24 July 1960. Through ProQuest.
16. The New York Times, 18 January 1959, in an article titled “U.S. Loses ‘Envoy’ to Call of India”, and Malti Singh in India Abroad, New York. 8 August 1997, Vol. XXVII, Issue 45. Through ProQuest.
17. Mumtaz Kitchlew’s letter dated 5 January 1969 to Abnashi Ram. SAADA Collections.
18. Times of India, 9 August 1976. Through ProQuest, and, Malti Singh in India Abroad, New York, 8 August 1997, Vol XXVII, Issue 45. Through ProQuest.
19. Letter from G.J. Watumull to Syud Hossain dated 10 January 1949—Syud Hossain Papers at NMML, New Delhi.
20. Obituary in the The New York Times 14 August 1959. Through ProQuest.
21. Obituary in Honolulu Star Bulletin, 10 September 1990, page 29.
22. Email dated 7 October 2019 from John Martin of the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff to the author.
23. Hope Star, Arkansas, 16 February 1973.
24. The Gazette Sun, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 2 December 1951 and Wisconsin State Journal, 23 August 1950.
25. Email from Roy Samras to the author dated 23 September 2019.
26. Roy Samras, quoted in Evelyn’s obituary in The Washington Post, 23 October 2005.
27. Rohana Alkatis and Roy Samras in a telephonic conversation with the author on 5 February 2020.
28. Hope Star, Arkansas, 16 February 1973.
29. http://cosmotc.blogspot.com/2006/03/haridas-muzumdar-millers-hindu.html.
30. Paul Greenberg in Lincoln Journal Star, Nebraska, 15 September 1976.
31. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 4 June 1995, page 4B, section 4B.
32. Rohana Alkatis and Roy Samras in a telephonic conversation with the author on 5 February 2020.
33. To Life: The Story of a Chicago Lawyer by Elmer Gertz. Southern Illinois University Press, 1990.
Epilogue
1. Aljazeera, online edition 22 September 2019.
2. Online editions of: Independent, U.K. , 7 February 2019.
India Today, 28 November 2019.
India Today, 9 February 2020.
The Hindu, 17 January 2020.
3. Letter from Mumtaz Kitchlew to Abnashi Ram, 6 May 1968, SAADA Collections.
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