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T. , 191, 192 Khilanmarg, nine, 204 Kipling, John Lockwood, 246, 251 Kipling, Rudyard, 224, 246 Knight, Capt. , 191, 244 Knight, E. F. (Times correspondent), 6, forty three Kohinoor diamond, sixty five, sixty nine, 229 Kokernag, fifty five, 256 Lacquer, 213, 215, 222. See additionally papier mâché Ladakh, 34, 70, seventy two, 106, 117, 118, 119, 128, 143, a hundred and fifty five, 168, 176, 239, 243 Lalitaditya-Muktapida, 29 Lalla Rookh, 15, 17, forty nine, one hundred and five, 113–15, a hundred and twenty, 136, a hundred and eighty, 196 Lawrence, Sir Henry, fifty three, 70, seventy one, seventy two, seventy three, a hundred seventy five, 177, 179, 181 Lawrence, Honoria, 53–4, fifty eight, one hundred seventy five Lidder valley, nine, 196, 202 Lidderwat, 203 lotus, five, 124, 220 Lubke, William, 224 Lyons, English deserter, 127 Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 113 Maharajas of Kashmir, 20, 22, seventy three, seventy nine, 224. See additionally person names: Gulab Singh, Ranbir Singh, Pratab Singh, Sir Amar Singh, Hari Singh, Dr Karan Singh Makdhum Sahib, sixty three Manasbal lake, eight, 28, forty eight, 121, 179, 184, 195, 256. Se additionally Hindu temples Manrique, Sebastian, 227, 228 Mansur, ustad or grasp, painter, forty six Martand, 10, 28, 29, 30, 32, forty, fifty five, 103, 124, 152, 194, 201, 229, 256. See additionally Hindu temples Mattan, 29, fifty five Maulana Kabir, 213 Mehan Singh, Colonel, sixty eight Metropolitan Museum of artwork, ny, 240 Millais, Geoffroy, one hundred sixty five Millais, Sir John, a hundred sixty five Mirza Haider, 37 missionaries, more often than not, one hundred sixty, 162, 163. See additionally person names: Dr Fanny Butler, Dr William Elmslie, Dr Arthur Neve, Dr Ernest Neve, Canon Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe, Irene Petrie Mitchell, 154 Mohammad Hussein, grasp calligrapher, 225 Mongols, 31, 32, 35 Moorcroft, William, 37, 116, 223, 238 Moore, Thomas, 17, 113, 114, 136, a hundred and eighty, 196 Morrison, Margaret Cotter, 24, 201, 202–6 Moses, 87 Mughals, as a rule, 15, 26, 34–5, 37, 39, one hundred ninety; subtle flavor of, 220–1; portray, 224, 227. See additionally person names: Babur, Akbar, Jahangir, Nur Jahan, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb, Dara Shikoh, Roshanara Begum, Mirza Haidar Mughal gardens, commonly, 38, forty three, 149, 152, a hundred seventy five, 206, 255. See additionally person names: Achabal, Bijbihar, Chashma Shahi, Darogha (or Jarogha) Bagh, Dilawar Khan Bagh, Nasim Bagh, Nishat, Pari Mahal, Shalimar, Verinag Munshi Bagh, 162, 163, 164, one hundred seventy, one hundred eighty, 182, 185 Murree, 197 Museum, Srinagar nation Museum at Lal Mandi, 251 Nadir Shah, sixty five, 263 Nagar-Nagar, eleven, forty-one, forty two, 151, 154, 257 Nagin lake, five Nagpur, 112 Naoshera, 12, thirteen, fifty nine Napoleon, seventy six, 229 Nasim Bagh, forty two, forty three, 137, 149, 256 Nedou’s resort, Srinagar, 163, 204; Gulmarg, 203 Nehru relations, sixty five, 83–4 Neve, Dr Arthur, 27, 28, 29, 167, 168, 169, one hundred seventy, 173, 207. See additionally missionaries Neve, Dr Ernest, 168. See additionally missionaries Nishat, four, five, fifty two, fifty three, sixty one, 149, 179, 186, 255. See additionally Mughal gardens Nur Jahan, eleven, forty seven, 50, fifty two, fifty four, fifty five, fifty nine, 60, sixty three, 103, 121, 151, 185, 195, 255. See additionally Mughals Nur-ud-Din, 33 Oberoi lodge (once the Gulab Bhawan palace), eighty one, 253 previous Secretariat, 14, sixty six, 224. See additionally Shergarhi palace Pahalgam, 28, 29, 30, 195, 202, 256 paisley trend, 211, 216, 231, 242 Pakistan, 20, 21, 28, fifty nine, 174 Pampur/Pampore, 39, forty six, fifty five, 122, 148, 152, 195 Pandrethan, 27, 28, fifty five, 124, 256.