Scope and Contents This diary spans the period of 1 January, 1916 to 31 December, 1916, with entries for almost every day of the year, and with certain words, phrases, or dates written in, what appears to be, Urdu, one of the coofficial languages in the general area today. The inside cover has a quote from the Bible and the back pages contain random notes, many of them in Urdu. In the court, Nazim seemed to have worked closely with the Hakim (see, for example, the 20 January, 1916 entry). One of their usual...