1. See Linda B. Fritzinger, Diplomat without Portfolio: Valentine Chirol, his Life and ‘The Times’ (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006). Chirol was foreign editor from 1899 to 1912.
2. Sir Bradford Leslie, ‘Delhi: The Metropolis of India’, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, vol. 61, no. 3136, 27 December 1912, 133–48. See also ‘Royal Society of Arts: Award of Medals’, The Times, 3 July 1913, 4.
3. Wilmot Corfield, ‘Delhi: The Metropolis of India’, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, vol. 61, no. 3137, 3 January 1913, 180.
4. C. P. Lukis, ‘Anti-Mosquito Measures in India’, The British Medical Journal, vol. 1, no. 2662 (6 January 1912), 23–5. Lately, he had been involved in developing medical education classes in Amritsar that focused on combatting malaria and its spread.
5. ‘Report of the Delhi Town Planning Committee on the Choice of a Site for the New Imperial Capital’. Home Department, Delhi Branch, July 1912, nos. 1–2, 8. See Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).