Notes
1 Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield in the House of Lords 18 July 1878. Accessed at https://api.parliament.uk
2 After the ‘twice-born’ Indo-European upper castes among the Hindus who adhered to Brahmanism.
3 Topham Beauclerk to James Boswell, quoted in Judd, Gerrit Parmele, Members of Parliament 1734–1832. Chicago, 1972, p. 36.
4 Orwell, George, Essays, London, first published 1984, new edition 2000, p. 425.
5 Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse. Oxford: OUP, 1997, p. 82, the centenarian writer's last book.
6 The Earl of Halifax, Fulness of Days. London: Collins, 1957. Lord Halifax then Lord Irwin was Viceroy between 1926 and 1931.