White Mughals (85 page)

85
Kausar, op. cit., p.11.

86
Ibid., p.14.

87
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/59, p.33, 24 October 1804, James Kirkpatrick to George Kirkpatrick.

88
Bodleian Library, Russell Papers, Ms Eng Letts C156, p.21, 21 April 1808. After James’s death and Khair un-Nissa’s exile to Masulipatam, Henry Russell sent his brother Charles to Khair’s townhouse to fetch him some of James’s Mughal clothes that he kept there and which Henry needed for a masquerade in Madras. He told his brother to take ‘as many of the poor Colonels Hindoostanee dupes[?] [Indian clothes] that I might wish’, asking him to go to the house and ‘see if you can solicit[?] a complete dup, if there be one, and if not take what articles are sufficient, and what will be the expense of purchasing them. There should be a
jama
complete, with
sunjaf
[?] and
kinaree
; a pair of rich
kumkhand
turbauns; a turban of Umjud Ally Khan’s shape; and a rich
putka
or cummarbund for the court[?]—all these things I believe you will find at least three or four setts of in the Begum’s House, except perhaps the turbun and cummerbund; but you can soon ascertain and let me know’.

89
In Henry Russell’s correspondence from Calcutta, he records Khair writing letters not only to her grandmother but to her friends ‘Chistan and Hyatee’s mother’. Bodleian Library, Russell Papers, Ms Eng Letts C155, p.150, Chowringhee, 4 July 1806. When Khair died, ‘her mother [Sharaf un-Nissa] and all her relations and friends were with her’. Among those gathered around her bed was Fyze. In the days that followed, huge crowds turned up at her funeral, ‘which was attended by every person of rank in the place’. See Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh, GD46/15/3/1-30, Henry Russell to Lady Hood, Hyderabad, 23 September 1813.

90
Letter from William George Kirkpatrick (Sahib Allum) to Kitty Kirkpatrick (Sahib Begum), dated 1 March 1823, in the private archive of Kirkpatrick’s descendants.

91
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/59, p.4, 11 June 1803, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

92
Letter from Kitty Kirkpatrick to Sharaf un-Nissa, undated but c.1840, in the private archives of their descendants.

93
Ibid. For one among many instances of Khair un-Nissa making dresses for a friend see Bodleian Library, Russell Papers, Ms Eng Letts C172, p.67, 7 June 1813, Masulipatam, from Lady (Mary) Hood.

94
Kausar, op. cit., pp.194-8.

95
For an excellent account of Wellesley’s rebuilding of Government House in Calcutta see Bence-Jones, op. cit., Chapter 2.

96
Quoted in Davies,
Splendours of the Raj
, op. cit., p.35.

97
Quoted by Moon, op. cit., p.340

98
Malcolm makes the error, in his telling of the story, of calling the Minister ‘Meer Allum’. As the Mir was in 1802 under house arrest and Aristu Jah was the Minister at the time, I have corrected the mistake in the quotation to avoid confusion.

99
J.W. Kaye, op. cit., Vol. 2, p.100.

100
For the Nizam’s toothlessness see de Boigne archive, Chambéry, bundle AB IIA, Lieutenant William Steuart to ‘Mac’, Paangul, 30 October 1790. For the camels’ milk see Bidri, op. cit., p.60; for the fishing see New Delhi National Archives, Foreign Department, Secret Consultations, 1800, 15 May, No. 12, ‘Moonshee Azeez Oolah’s Report of a conversation with AUO and of what passed at the Durbar of HH on 9th March 1800’. For the spice-island pigeons see OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/13, p.80, 29 June 1801, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick. For the lioness see OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/58, p.65, 3 December 1802, James Kirkpatrick to N.B. Edmonstone. For the clock, the automaton and the cloak see OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/11, p.332, 5 March 1800, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

101
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/13, p.292, 17 December 1801, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

102
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/57, p.35, 23 May 1802, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

103
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/11, p.287, 25 November 1800, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

104
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/13, p.47, 6 May 1801, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

105
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/58, p.38, 6 October 1802, James Kirkpatrick to James Brunton.

1
See Anon.,
Some Notes on the Hyderabad Residency
, op. cit., p.29.

2
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/59, p.1, 11 June 1803, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

3
New Delhi National Archives, Hyderabad Residency Records, Vol. 834, p.178, 6 August 1803, James Kirkpatrick to Arthur Wellesley.

4
Ibid., 7 August 1803, James Kirkpatrick to ‘Major Laton commanding the Hyderabad Detachment’ for the ‘extra butter’; pp.179-80, 8 August, James Kirkpatrick to Arthur Wellesley for the succession of Nizam Sikander Jah.

5
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/59, p.8, 18 August 1803, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

6
Kirkpatrick, ‘ A View of the State of the Deccan’, op. cit., p.33.

7
From Davies, ‘Henry Russell’s Report on Hyderabad’, op. cit., pp.121-3.

8
Moon, op. cit., p.314

9
Arthur Wellesley quoted in ibid., p.316.

10
Letter from James Kirkpatrick to N.B. Edmonstone, undated but c.May 1803, in the private archive of Kirkpatrick’s descendants.

11
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/59, p.1, 11 June 1803.

12
Sir Thomas Munro, quoted in Moon, op. cit., p.321.

13
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/59, p.40, 4 June 1805.

14
Ibid., p.13, 2 October, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

15
Ibid., p.1, 11 June 1803, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick

16
Hastings Papers, BL Add Mss 29,178, Vol. XLVII, 1801-02, 4 December 1802, pp.314-19, William Palmer to Hastings.

17
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/58, p.62, 23 November 1802, and p.67, 1 December 1802, both James Kirkpatrick to William Palmer.

18
New Delhi National Archives, Hyderabad Residency Records, Vol. 634, 9 May 1804, pp.32-3.

19
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/59, p.8, 18 August 1804, and p.40, 4 June 1805, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

20
Bodleian Library, Russell Papers, Ms Eng Letts C155, p.42, 17 August 1804, Madras, Henry Russell to Charles Russell.

21
I am grateful to Professor Robert Frykenberg for sending me a copy of this image.

22
Bodleian Library, Russell Papers, Ms Eng Letts C155, p.1, 21 February 1802; p.5, 19 March 1802; p.11, 15 April 1802: all Henry Russell to Charles Russell.

23
Quoted in ‘A Preliminary Report on the Russell Correspondence Relating to Hyderabad 1783-1816’, reprinted in
Indian Archives
, Vol. IX, January-June 1955, No. 1, pp.25-6.

24
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/59, p.40, 4 June 1805, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

25
Bidri, op. cit., p.83.

26
New Delhi National Archives, Hyderabad Residency Records, Vol. 634, 20 October 1804, ‘A Secret Communication’, p.85.

27
Moon, op. cit., pp.340-1.

28
Quoted in Butler, op. cit., p.326.

29
Hastings Papers, BL Add Mss 29,180, Vol. XLIX, f.328, October 1804-December 1805, William Palmer to Hastings, Berhampore, 12 October 1805.

30
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/75, p.3, 27 July 1805, Lieutenant Colonel Robinson to James Kirkpatrick.

31
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/58, p.53, 9 November 1802, James Kirkpatrick to James Brunton.

32
Ibid., p.66, 30 November 1802, James Kirkpatrick to James Brunton.

33
Ibid., p.31, 24 October 1804, James Kirkpatrick to Kennaway.

34
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/59, p.8, 18 August 1804, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

35
See the obituary in the
New Monthly Magazine
for 1836; Rev. George Oliver’s ‘Biographies of Exonians’, in the
Exeter Flying Post
1849-50; and a file on the Kennaway family in the West Country Studies Library, Exeter.

36
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/59, p.31, 24 October 1804, James Kirkpatrick to Kennaway.

37
Ibid., p.25, 23 July 1804, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick. Isabella (who was christened Barbara Isabella Kirkpatrick, but was known as an adult by her more becoming middle name) was born in 1788. See Strachey Papers, OIOC F127/478a, ‘Sketch of the Kirkpatrick Family by Lady Richard Strachey’.

38
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/58, p.67, 3 December 1802, James Kirkpatrick to T.G. Richardson in Madras.

39
Ibid., p.53, 8 November 1802, James Kirkpatrick to James Brunton.

40
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/59, p.20, 9 October.

41
Ibid., p.40, 4 June 1805, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

42
See Khan,
Indian Muslim Perceptions of the West
, op. cit., Chapter 2.

43
Shushtari, op. cit., pp.11, 351, 425.

44
For Thomas Deane Pearse’s interests in astronomy see
Bengal Past and Present
, Vol. 2, 1908, pp.304ff, and esp. Vol. 6, 1910, pp.40 and 273-4, part of a long series of articles on Pearse’s letters.

45
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/59, p.40, 4 June 1805, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

46
Ibid., p.33, 24 October 1804, James Kirkpatrick to George Kirkpatrick.

47
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/82, p.32, 13 July 1805, Dr Ure.

48
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/59, p.40, 4 June 1805, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

49
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/84, dated 22 March 1805.

50
Mirza Abu Taleb Khan, op. cit., p.197.

51
Ibid., pp.198-200.

52
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/13, p.166, 21 September 1801, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

53
OIOC, Sutherland Papers, Mss Eur D547, pp.133-4, undated but c.1803.

54
Ibid., p.134.

55
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/13, p.152, 6 September 1801, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

56
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/59, p.27, 4 October 1804, James Kirkpatrick to the Handsome Colonel.

57
Ibid.

58
Ibid., p.40, 4 June 1805, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

59
Ibid., p.27, 4 October 1804, James Kirkpatrick to the Handsome Colonel.

60
Ibid., p.35, James Kirkpatrick to Mrs Hooker, c.August 1805.

61
Ibid., p.40, 4 June 1805, James Kirkpatrick to William Kirkpatrick.

62
Letter from Kitty Kirkpatrick to Sharaf un-Nissa, undated but c.1840, in the private archive of Kirkpatrick’s descendants.

63
Hickey, op. cit., Vol. 4, p.385.

64
Patrick Conner,
George Chinnery 1774-1852: Artist of India and the China Coast
(London, 1993), p.62.

65
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/75, p.5, 6 August 1805, William Petrie to James Kirkpatrick.

66
Hickey, op. cit., Vol. 4, pp.319-20.

67
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/75, p.3, 27 July 1805, Lieutenant Colonel Robinson to James Kirkpatrick.

68
See Hastings Papers, BL Add Mss 29,180, Vol. XLIX, f.328, October 1804-December 1805, William Palmer to Hastings, Berhampore, 12 October 1805.

69
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/75, p.5, 6 August 1805, William Petrie to James Kirkpatrick.

70
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/68, p.109, 20 August 1805, Mir Alam to James Kirkpatrick, trans. by Henry Russell, First Assistant.

71
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/75, p.13, 9 September 1805, Henry Russell to James Kirkpatrick.

72
Calcutta Gazette
, 3 October.

73
OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/75, p.15, 14 September, James Kirkpatrick to William Bentinck: Passes on Meer Allum’s request to buy His Highness of Arcot’s house and enclosure in Hyderbad. Also p.18, 22 September: a note from the Nawab of Arcot’s secretary giving James Kirkpatrick an appointment at ten the following morning to see the Nawab at Chipauck House, presumably to discuss Mir Alam’s proposed purchase.

74
Calcutta Gazette
, 10 October.

75
OIOC, Elphinstone Papers, Mss Eur F88, Box13/16[b], entry for 13 September 1801.

76
Calcutta Gazette
, 3 October.

77
Hastings Papers, BL Add Mss 29,180, Vol. XLIX, f.328, October 1804-December 1805, William Palmer to Hastings, Berhampore, 12 October 1805.

78
The codicil lies at the bottom of the will. See OIOC, Kirkpatrick Papers, F228/84, dated 22 March 1805. Among the points James added was a characteristically thoughtful directive that his generous bequests to his nieces should be paid on marriage, and not necessarily to await their twenty-first birthdays.

79
These details are all taken from Theon Wilkinson’s wonderful book
Two Monsoons
, op. cit.; n.b. esp. Chapter 1.

80
Calcutta Gazette
, 28 November.

81
Bodleian Library, Russell Papers, Ms Eng Letts C152, p.50.

1
Denis Kincaid,
British Social Life in India up to 1938
(London, 1938), pp.22, 95.