Notes
1: Babuli
1 Elisabeth Keesing, Hazrat Inayat Khan: A Biography, p. 5; Musharraf Moulamia Khan, Pages in the Life of a Sufi, p. 22; and family sources.
2 Keesing, Hazrat Inayat Khan, p. 59.
3 Begum Inayat Khan, âWomanâs Seclusion in the Eastâ, The Sufi, September 1915.
4 Keesing, Hazrat Inayat Khan, p. 86.
5 Will Van Beek, Hazrat Inayat Khan: Master of Life, Modern Sufi Mystic,1983.
6 Ibid.
7 SpasskayaYeYu, Memoirs of Spasskaya â chapter on âHindus of Moscowâ (unpublished manuscript).
8 Sergey Moskalev, of the Emperor Society of Adherents of Natural Science, Anthropology and Ethnography, Moscow University, to author, May 2004.
9 Keesing, Hazrat Inayat Khan, p. 93.
10 Moulamia Khan, Pages in the Life, p.123.
11 Vilayat to author, June 2003, Suresnes.
12 13 April 1919, when Gen. Dyer ordered his soldiers to open fire on a group of peaceful demonstrators in an enclosed area in Amritsar in Punjab, killing nearly 2,000 people including women and children. Many jumped into the well in the enclosed compound in complete panic. The troops did not stop till the last bullet had been fired.
13 Keesing, Hazrat Inayat Khan, p. 112.
2: Fazal Manzil
1 Jean Overton Fuller, Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan, p. 38.
2 Elisabeth Keesing, Hazrat Inayat Khan: A Biography, p. 157.
3 Vilayat to author, Suresnes, June 2003.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Noorâs letter to a friend from Switzerland, quoted in Overton Fuller, Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan, p. 67.
8 Hidayat to author, letter, June 2004.
9 Vilayat to author, Suresnes, June 2003.
10 David Harper (Claireâs son) to author, letter, November 2003.
11 Mahmood Khan, Noorâs cousin, to author, telephone conversation from Suresnes, June 2004.
12 Maula Bakshâs sons-in-law lived with him after their marriages, which made the family very large. This is why Inayat Khanâs father stayed in the family house in Baroda after marrying Maula Bakshâs daughter. The sole male heir of Maula Baksh was Ali Khan and it was to his son, Alladutt Khan, that Inayat wanted to marry Noor.
13 Vilayat to author, Suresnes, June 2003.
14 Ibid.
15 Keesing, Hazrat Inayat Khan, p. 176.
16 Vilayat to author, June 2003.
17 Mahmood to author, June 2004.
18 Ibid.
19 Noorâs Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew. Handwritten notes by Noor about her background.
20 Mahmood to author, June 2004.
21 Noor herself would be referred to as aâmodern Joan of Arc who had refused to be subjugated and preferred death to slaveryâ by the Mayor of Suresnes, Monsieur Pontillon, on 17 July 1967 at the unveiling of a plaque in her honour at Fazal Manzil.
22 Mahmood to author, June 2004.
23 David Harper to author, October 2003.
24 Ibid.
25 The family could not remember his first name.
26 Mahmood to author, June 2004.
27 Vilayat to author, June 2003
28 Overton Fuller, Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan, p 52.
29 Mahmood to author, June 2004.
30 Vilayat to author, June 2003.
31 Noorâs Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
32 Vilayat to author, June 2003.
33 Vilayat to author, June 2003.
34 Noorâs veena is now kept in the Sufi headquarters in the Hague along with other memorabilia.
35 Mahmood to author, June 2004.
36 Hidayat to author, May 2004.
37 Article by Alexis Danan in Le Franc- tireur, 17 February 1957, read out at a function in Suresnes to unveil a plaque in Noorâs honour.
38 Overton Fuller, Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan, p. 84.
39 Vilayat to author, June 2003.
40 Ibid.
3: Flight and Fight
1 Ian Ousby, Occupation, pp. 43â4.
2 Vilayat to author, June 2003.
3 Jean Overton Fuller to author, June 2004,Wymington, Northamptonshire.
4 Vilayat to author, June 2003.
5 Noorâs service record, Personnel Management Agency, Royal Air Force, Innsworth.
6 Beryl E. Escott, Mission Improbable, p.61.
7 Ibid.
8 Jean Ov...