New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- In January 1925, Malabar Hill in colonial Mumbai witnessed a crime that would topple one of India's most prominent maharajas. A wealthy businessman called Abdul Kader Bawla was in transit with his mistress, Mumtaz Begum, when their car was forced to halt by another vehicle. A few men emerged from it, and before anyone knew what was under way, shots were fired and a knife was slashed about. The assailants were seeking to drag Bawla's beloved into their car, but a few British military officers returning from a morning of leisure came to the bleeding lady's defence. Beating back the would-be kidnappers with golf clubs, they rescued Mumtaz. But it was too late for Bawla-though he was taken to hospital, he succumbed to gunshot wounds....