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- ↑ Benichou, From Autocracy to Integration (2000), Chapter 7, note 3.
- ↑ "India, Pak keen to settle dispute over Nizam's wealth". 12 April 2008. Archived from the original on 13 July 2012. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- ↑ "The Nizam's misfortune". May 2008.
- ↑ A. G. Noorani, Jinnah & the Nizam of Hyderabad – A Tragic Liaison, Criterion Quarterly, 20 November 2012.
- ↑ Benichou, From Autocracy to Integration (2000) , Chapter 5: "As Moin Nawaz Jung was reputed to be in favour with the Ittihad, Chhatari hoped that its opposition to reforms would be somewhat lessened."
- ↑ Benichou, From Autocracy to Integration (2000) , Chapter 6: "Sir Walter Monckton [the leader of the delegation] rebuked the Commissioner of Police for his inaction only to get the reply that the Police, if ordered to intervene, would have refused to resist the Muslim crowds.... Did the Police not know at all? Was no report made to Moin Nawaz Jung, the Police Minister, or to the Police Commissioner himself, by the Intelligence Department? Was the Police in league?"
- ↑ Benichou, From Autocracy to Integration (2000) , Chapter 6: "Moin Nawaz Jung pleaded, nevertheless, that discussions be reopened on the basis of the original draft agreement proposed by Hyderabad but this was indignantly refused (ibid., p. 315). It seems, however, since the Kashmir situation had not yet been resolved, that the Hyderabad delegation was merely using delaying tactics in the hope of gaining some advantage should the Kashmir situation worsen for India."
- ↑ Benichou, From Autocracy to Integration (2000) , Chapter 7: "Neither politics nor administration was his metier and in both he took counsel from Moin Nawaz Jung who combined administrative ability with narrowness of political outlook and imagination. He exercised great influence over Mir Laik Ali; in fact it was said that the Prime Minister was keeping his seat warm for his brother-in-law to take over when the moment was propitious."
- ↑ "Benichou, From Autocracy to Integration (2000) , Chapter 7: "In the State, it was considered in some circles that an appeal to the UNO amounted to suicide as it was certain to precipitate India’s armed intervention. Mir Laik Ali went ahead, and announced to the Hyderabad Legislative Assembly (on 4 September 1948) that a delegation headed by Moin Nawaz Jung, would proceed to Lake Success. He [Jung] ended his address with the statement that 'even should the United Nations turn down Hyderabad's appeal, the State would not give up its claim to independence'."
- ↑ "A prince's ransom | the Guardian | guardian.co.uk". TheGuardian.com .