1. Stephen White, ‘An End to D-I-Y Cremation?’, Medicine, Science and the Law, 33 (1992) 151.
2. On the compatibility of non-Christian funeral practice with English law see Sebastian Poulter, English Law and Ethnic Minority Customs, (London: Butterworth, 1986), pp. 234–41
3. Sebastian Poulter, Asian Traditions and English Law: A Handbook, (Stoke-on-Trent: Runnymede Trust, 1990) pp. 120–6.
4. I was alerted to these cremations by Rozina Visram’s Ayahs, Lascars and Princes: Indians in Britain, 1700–1947, (London: Pluto Press, 1986), and would like to acknowledge her advice about sources on them. I have relied mainly on the following sources in my account: Public Record Office (hereafter PRO): HO 45/27022, f. 5; Papers of Walter Roper Lawrence, the Commissioner for the Indian Sick and Wounded in England and France, in the India Office Library, MS EUR F. 163; the Kitchener Papers, PRO: WO 159/17
5. Brighton Corporation, A Short History in English, Gurmukhi and Urdu of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton and a Description of it as a Hospital for Indian Soldiers, (Brighton, 1915); and Scrapbook about the Royal Visit to The Chattri, 1 February 1921, Brighton Reference Library.