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References

  1. Good, Anthony (1999). "The Car and the Palanquin: Rival Accounts of the 1895 Riot in Kalugumalai, South India". Modern Asian Studies. Cambridge University Press. 33 (1): 23–65. doi:10.1017/s0026749x99003200. JSTOR   313150.
  2. "Birthday Honours". The Times . 25 May 1895. p. 14.
  3. Harris, John (1975). Much Sounding of Bugles: The Siege of Chitral. Hutchinson. pp. 211–216.