The Moor's Last Sigh (46 page)

ZOGOIBY

1947-1977

1948-1993

1949-1981

1957- took holy orders

Acknowledgments

The words spoken by the Resident on pages 39-40 are for the most part taken from Rudyard Kipling's story 'On the City Wall', included in the collection In Black and White (reissued by Penguin, 1993)- The italicised passage on page 55 is for the most part taken from R. K. Narayan'snovel Waitingforthe Mahatma (Heinemann, 1955). The letter from Jawaharlal Nehru to Aurora Zogoiby on pages 117--18 draws on an actual letter written by Mr Nehru to Indira Gandhi on I July 1945 and published, as Letter 274, in Two Alone, Two Together: Letters Between Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru 1940--64, edited by Sonia Gandhi (Hodder & Stoughton, 1992). The illustration of the 'Common Man' on page 229 is by R.K. Laxman. The extract from the Ramayana on page 368 is taken from the verse translation by Romesh C. Dutt, first published in 1944; Jaico Books edition, 1966. The extract from the Iliad on the same page is taken from the verse translation by Sir William Marris, OUP, 1934.