1.   The New International Webster’s comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language (Encyclopedia Pedia Edition), Volume 1, Naples: Trident Reference Publishing, 2006.

2.    Longman Dictionary of English Language, 1984, 288.

3.    Key Concepts in Post Colonial Literature (New York: Pal Grave Macmillan, 2007).

4.    The Encyclopedia American, International Edition, 88.

5.    Nasir Abbas Nayyer, Ma Baad Nao Abadaiyat: Urdu Ke Tanazur Me (Karachi: Oxford University, 2013), 7.

6.    Edward Said, Saqafat Aur Samraj, Trans by: Yasir Javvad (Islamabad: Muqtadirah Qaumi Zaban, 2010), 20.

7.    Mohammad Ameen Zubairi Marhrvi, Hayat e Sultani (Agra: Azizi Press, 1939), 1.

8.    Nawab Sultan Jahan, Tuzk Sultani (Hissa Awal) (Bhopal: Matba Sultani, 1328 H), 45.

9.    Razia Hameed, Nawab Sultan Jahan Begum (Bhopal: Babul Ilm Publications, 2011), 82.

10.   Mohammad Ameen Zubairi Marhrvi, Hayat Sultani, 18.

11.   W.A. Sahiba, Tazkira Begamat e Bhopal (Lahore: Darul Isha'at Punjab, 1932), 40.

12.   Nawab Sultan Jahan Begum, Raozatur Riyahin (Hissa Awal) (Bhopal: Matba Sultani, 1904), 5.

13.   Ibid, 4.

14.   Ibid.

15.   Nawab Sultan Jahan Begum, Raozdatur-Riyahin, Hissa Awal, 7.

16.   Nawab Sultan Jahan Begum, Raozdatur-Riyahin, Hissa Dowom, 26.

17.   Ibid, 65.

18.   Nawab Sultan Jahan Begum, Raozdatur-Riyahin, 94.

19.   Ibid, 106.

20.  Mohammad Ameen Zubairi Marhrvi, Hayat Sultani, 234.

21.  Nawab Sultan Jahan Begum, Raozatur Riyahin, Hissa Awal, 2.

22.  Ibid, 2.