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 by side with the support given to English education, he encouraged Sanskrit and Telugu learning to a full extent. He very much loved Music and Dancing, being well-versed in their theory. He was held in high esteem by the Government in spite of his open criticism of public affairs. With his love of Western games existed side by side his national ideas in athletics and sport. He daily underwent a course of Native Gymnastics to the end of his life, and gave annual subscriptions to the upkeep of the several native gymnasiums in the town. Hunting was with him a hobby. Though himself a Maharajah his simplicity in dress and mode of living was a striking example to all that knew him. He was frugal, yet charitable to an extreme, and to him even charity and religion meant a system. His love of humour and sound sense of equity, combined with a ready and open criticism, while making him an object of terror to all wrong-doers, won for him in the end the love