(With reference to Rudyard Kipling titles,note that in most cases I have consulted the Kipling Society’s online edition of many of his works,which contains very useful notes. For example,‘The Mother Lodge’(http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_motherlodge.htm) and‘Cities and Thrones and Powers’,http://www.kiplingsociety. co.uk/poems_cities.htm.)
Anon.,Resumé of the History of the District Grand Lodge of Barbados 1740-1936,Bridgetown,Barbados,1937.
Anon.,‘Chronicle’. Brief account of Lodge Rising Star meeting in Bloemfontein,AQC,14,1901.‘We are pleased to note that not only were there many Boer Brothers’,pp.95-6.
S.R.Bakshi,Indian Freedom Fighters:Struggle for Independence-Vol.10:Motilal Nehru,New Delhi,1990.
S.Basu,For King and Another Country:Indian Soldiers on the Western Front,1914-18,New Delhi,2015.
C.A.Bayly,The Local Roots of Indian Politics:Allahabad 1880-1920(1975),in The C.A.Bayly Omnibus,Oxford,2009. Three per cent of the population,p.52. On the Masonic Lodge as one of the few integrated institutions,p.56.
J.Beamish Saul,Historical Sketch of the Lodge of Antiquity,Montreal,1912.
Lord Birkenhead,Rudyard Kipling,London,1980. Such was Kipling’s love of things Masonic and clubby that,while in Bloemfontein,he tried to get his fellow journalists to create a brotherhood with a rite rather like the Masons,pp.209-10.
J.M.Brown,‘India’,in in J.Brown and W.R.Louis(eds),The Oxford History of the British Empire-Volume Ⅳ:The Twentieth Century,Oxford,1999.
Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency(2005),‘NEMO remembers the great hurricane of 1780’,consulted 1 August 2018 at https://web.archive.org/web/20131004223823/http://www.cdera.org/cunews/news/saint_lucia/article_1314.php.
G.Chakravarty,The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination,Cambridge,2005.
A.Conan Doyle,Memories and Adventures(1924),Oxford,1989.
K.R.Cramp and G.Mackaness,A History of the United Grand Lodge of Ancient,Free and Accepted Masons of New South Wales,vol.1,Sydney,NSW,1938.
G.H.Cumming,The Foundations of Freemasonry in Australia,Sydney,NSW,1992.
G.H.Cumming,Freemasonry and the Emancipists in New South Wales,Sydney,NSW,2015.
S.Deschamps,Franc-maconnerie et pouvoir colonial dans l’Inde britannique(1730-1921),PhD thesis,Université Bordeaux Montaigne,2014. Umdat-ul-Umrah Bahadur,pp.178-81.‘Our race differ[s]in every essential point from that of the Asiatic’,quoted p.374.
S.Deschamps,‘Freemasonry and the Indian Parsi Community:A Late Meeting on the Level’,Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism,3(1),2012.
S.Deschamps,‘Looking to the East:Freemasonry and British Orientalism’,Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism,5(2),2014.
S.Deschamps,‘From Britain to India:Freemasonry as a Connective Force of Empire’,E-rea,14 February 2017,consulted online 12 July 2018.
J.Fingard,‘Race and Respectability in Victorian Halifax’,The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History,20(2),1992.
J.Fingard,J.Guildford and D.Sutherland,Halifax:The First 250 Years,Halifax,NS,1999.
W.K.Firminger,The Early History of Freemasonry in Bengal and the Punjab,Calcutta,1906.
V.J.Fozdar,‘Constructing the “Brother”:Freemasonry,Empire and Nationalism in India,1840-1925’,PhD thesis,University of California,Berkeley,2001. Important work on Masonry in India,particularly Bombay.‘Jadughar,or “magic-house”... bhutkhana,or “demon-house”’,p.332.‘A Parsi,a Moslem draughtsman,a Sikh’,p.285. Between 1885 and 1907,43 per cent of Congress presidents were Masons,p.450.
V.J.Fozdar,‘Imperial brothers,imperial partners:Indian Freemasons,race,kinship,and networking in the British empire and beyond’,in D.Ghosh and D.Kennedy(eds),Decentring Empire:Britain,India,and the transcolonial world,London,2006.
V.J.Fozdar,‘“That Grand Primeval and Fundamental Religion”:The Transformation of Freemasonry into a British Imperial Cult’,Journal of World History,22(3),2011.
The Freemasons’Quarterly Review,‘Nova Scotia’,31 March 1854,p.171.
P.Fussell,Jr,‘Irony,Freemasonry,and Humane Ethics in Kipling’s “The Man Who Would be King”’,ELH,25(3),1958.
D.Gilmour,The Long Recessional:The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling,London,2002.‘The dark places of the earth’,quoted p.126. For Kipling’s various hates,see p.212 and passim. Kipling on babus,p.64. On the Andrew Hearsey episode,p.73. Kipling as Laureate of Empire,pp.119-24.‘Great War’and‘the Hun’,p.117.
D.Griffiths,Fleet Street:Five Hundred Years of the Press,London,2006. On Daily Mail circulation,pp.132-3.
I.H.Haarburger,‘Charity’:A Masonic Analysis. An address delivered in the Lodge Rising Star,no.1022,at Bloemfontein,by W.Bro... Ivan H.Haarburger and read in the Lodge‘Star of Africa’,Jagersfontein,by W.Bro... Chas. Palmer,on 18th April,1900,Jagersfontein,1900.
I.H.Haarburger,A Mourning Lodge Convened by the Rising Star Lodge no.1,022,Bloemfontein,Bloemfontein,1901.
J.L.Harland-Jacobs,‘All in the Family:Freemasonry and the British Empire in the Mid-Nineteenth Century’,Journal of British Studies,2(4),2003.
J.L.Harland-Jacobs,Builders of Empire:Freemasons and British Imperialism,1717-1927,Chapel Hill,NC,2007. A ground-breaking survey of its subject. My section on Masonic events from Barbados,Sydney,etc. is meant to summarise her findings and draws partly on her work.‘Passport in all parts of the globe’,quoted p.246.‘The Society of Freemasons increases in numbers and prosperity’Proceedings of United Grand Lodge of England 7 September 1887,quoted p.254.‘That unite the Dominions with the Mother Country’,quoted p.11.
J.B.Harrison,‘Allahabad:a sanitary history’,in K.Ballhatchet and J.Harrison(eds),The City in South Asia:Pre-modern and Modern,London,1980.‘A noisome ditch,with crawling fetid contents’,sanitary report 1879,quoted p.186.‘If the natives chose to live amidst such insanitary surroundings’,p.167.
W.Henley,History of Lodge Australian Social Mother no.1,1820-1920,Sydney,1920.
R.Holland,‘The British Empire and the Great War,1914-1918’,in J.Brown and
W.R.Louis(eds),The Oxford History of the British Empire-Volume Ⅳ:The Twentieth Century,Oxford,1999.
T.Hunt,Ten Cities that Made an Empire,London,2014. See the chapter on Bridgetown for its colonial economy and society.
B.L.Huskins,Public Celebrations in Victorian Saint John and Halifax,PhD thesis,Dalhousie University,Halifax,NS,1991.
A.Jackson,The British Empire:A Very Short History,Oxford,2013. For figures on the extent of the British Empire,p.5.
R.Jaffa,Man and Mason:Rudyard Kipling,Milton Keynes,2011.
D.Judd and K.Surridge,The Boer War:A History,London,2013.
H.G.Keene,A hand-book for visitors to Lucknow:with preliminary notes on Allahabad and Cawnpore,London,1875.
G.Kendall,‘Freemasonry during the Anglo-Boer War 1899-2002’,AQC,97,1984. Contains a misleading account of Masonic events in Bloemfontein during the war.
R.Kipling[writing as Anon.],‘A Study of the Congress’,The Pioneer,1 January 1889. In Sussex University Kipling Papers collection,Printed Material,1. Press-Cuttings,a. Bound Volumes,28/4,Stories,Poems,Articles,1887-91.
R.Kipling,Something of Myself:An Autobiography(1937),London,2007.‘Large-boned,mountainous,wooded’,p.75.‘Here I met Muslims,Hindus,Sikhs’,p.38.
R.Kipling,The Complete Barrack-Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling,ed.C.Carrington,London,1974.
R.Kumar and D.N.Panigrahi,Selected Works of Motilal Nehru,vol.1(1899-1918),New Delhi,1982.
R.Lethbridge,The Golden Book of India,London,1893. On the Maharaja of Kapurthala,p.233.
Library and Museum of Freemasonry,London,English Freemasonry and the First World War,Hersham,2014. For numbers of English Constitution Lodges in 1914,pp.10-11. For growth in membership after the war,and lifting of the ban on the disabled,pp.93-4.
The London Gazette,28 May 1886. For Sir John Edge’s transfer,p.2572.
R.S.Longley,A Short History of Freemasonry in Nova Scotia,Halifax,NS,1966.
P.Longworth,The Unending Vigil:A History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission,Barnsley,2010. Canadian units digging own graves,p.22.‘To keep alive the ideals for the maintenance and defence’,quoted p.28.
A.Lycett,Rudyard Kipling,London,2015.
P.Mason,Kipling:The Glass,the Shadow and the Fire,London,1975.‘Soul-cleansing routine’,p.25.‘To belong to an inner circle,with secret passwords’,p.84.
The Masonic Illustrated,July 1901.‘Thrill [s] the heart of every Craftsman’,p.214.
J.McBratney,‘India and Empire’,in H.J.Booth(ed.),The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling,Cambridge,2011.
B.Metcalf and T.Metcalf,A Concise History of Modern India,Cambridge,2002. On Allahabad in this period,pp.108-9.
R.J.Moore,‘Imperial India,1858-1914’,in A.Porter(ed.),The Oxford History of the British Empire:Volume Ⅲ:The Nineteenth Century,Oxford,1999.
M.Mukherjee,India in the Shadows of Empire:A Legal and Political History,1774-1950,New Delhi,2010. On vakils and lawyers in Congress,pp.105-49.
B.R.Nanda,The Nehrus:Motilal and Jawaharlal,Bombay,1962.
B.R.Nanda,Motilal Nehru,New Delhi,1964.
T.Pakenham,The Boer War,London,1979.
A.Pershad and P.Suri,Motilal Nehru:A Short Political Biography,Delhi,1961.‘A people ripening into nationhood’,quoted p.17.
B.Phillips,‘Rudyard Kipling’s war,Freemasonry and misogyny’in D.Owen and M.C.Pividori(eds),Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War:That Better Whiles May Follow Worse,DQR Studies in Literature,vol.61,2016.
T.Pinney(ed),The Letters of Rudyard Kipling,vol.2,1890-99,London,1990.‘My affection for England’,pp.155-6.‘Naturally I believe there has been no civilizing experiment’,p.235.
T.H.Raddall,Halifax:Warden of the North,Toronto,1948.
J.Ralph,War’s Brighter Side:The story of The Friend newspaper edited by the correspondents with Lord Roberts’s Forces,March-April 1900,London,1901. Date Kipling left Bloemfontein,p.258.
J.Ranston,Masonic Jamaica and the Cayman Islands,Kingston,Jamaica,2017. The only possible objection to the conclusion that the Lodge of‘In the Interests of the Brethren’is all-white is that Kipling mentions that one of the Masons came from Jamaica. Ranston’s research,and a conversation with the author,leads me to conclude that the picture in his mind is of a Jamaican Brother from among the white planters.
Rising Star Lodge no. 1,022,Minutes of a Mourning Lodge held 31st January 1901 in Memory of her Late Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria,Bloemfontein,1901.
M.Roberts,British Poets and Secret Societies,London,1986. On Kipling,pp.102-25.
B.Russell,Unpopular Essays,Oxford 2009(1950).‘The most refined religions are concerned’,p.105.
R.Sohrabji Sidhwa,District Grand Lodge of Pakistan(1869-1969),Lahore,1969.‘Solving the mystery of Rudyard Kipling’s son’,18 January 2016,https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35321716.
Statistical,Descriptive and Historical Account of the North-Western Provinces of India,vol.Ⅷ,part Ⅱ,Allahabad,Allahabad,1884.
J.Summers,Remembered:The History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission,London,2007.
Thacker’s Indian Directory,Calcutta,1890,Part 1. For Lodge meeting days in Allahabad,p.227.
United Indian Patriotic Association,Pamphlets issued by the United Indian Patriotic Association no. 2,Showing the Seditious Character of the Indian National Congress,Allahabad,1888. Esp.‘The Pioneer on sedition’,pp.79-91.
G.E.Walker,‘250 Years of Masonry in India’,AQC,92,1979.‘They were not obligated to be present at the Initiation of a Turk’,quoted p.177.
F.Ware,The Immortal Heritage:An Account of the Work and Policy of the Imperial War Graves Commission during Twenty Years,1917-1937,Cambridge,1937.
K.Watson,The Civilized Island:Barbados-A Social History 1750-1816,Barbados,1979.
L.H.Wienand,The First Eighty-One Years:A Brief History of the Rising Star Lodge from 1864 to 1945,Bloemfontein,1955. Reproduces press reports and other documents I have drawn on for Bloemfontein Lodge meetings.‘They are eternal. In our day and generation’,p.50.
C.G.Wyndham Parker,Thirty-Five Masters:The Story of the Builders of the Silent Cities Lodge,London,1962.
C.Wynne,The Colonial Conan Doyle:British Imperialism,Irish Nationalism,and the Gothic,London,2002.
A.M.Zaidi and S.Zaidi(eds),The Encyclopedia of Indian National Congress,vol.1,1885-1890,The Founding Fathers,New Delhi,1976. On Allahabad Congress,pp.233ff.
Archival sources from the Museum and Library of Freemasonry,London
Letter of John Seed,Secretary of the Union Lodge,No.362 [erased],Bridgetown,Barbados,28 December 1795,GBR 1991 AR/1273/3.‘Labour in all brotherly love,for the future Welfare and Support’.
Copy of the minutes of the St John’s Day Celebrations at the Union Lodge,No.362,Bridgetown,Barbados,28 December 1795,GBR 1991 AR/1273/4.
Freemason Membership Registers,1751-1921,available on Ancestry.com. Analysed for various Indian Lodges,especially those of Kipling and Nehru.
Loyal Address from several Lodges in Bengal,India to Queen Victoria,1887.GBR 1991 LA 1/2/179.